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    • East Lothian People
      • Adventurers and Explorers
        • John Hepburn: Arctic Explorer, 1794–1861 or 1864
        • John Muir (1838–1914)
      • East Lothian Folk
        • The Fisherrow Fishwives
        • Issobell Young
        • Archibald Banks (c.1826 – 1871)
      • Artists and Musicians
        • John Bellany CBE RA HRSA LLD (1942–2013)
        • Robert Noble RA RSA (1857–1917)
        • William Darling McKay, RSA LLD (1844–1924)
        • William Marshall Brown RSA (1863–1936)
        • Patrick William Adam RSA (1852–1929)
        • Sir William George Gillies RA RSA (1898–1973)
        • Fish (Derek William Dick) (1958– )
        • The Haddington Amateur Operatic Society
      • Church and Philosophy
        • John Gray (1646–1717)
        • John Brown (1722–87)
        • Rev. John Witherspoon (1723–92)
        • John Knox (c. 1514–72)
        • The Haddington brods
        • Robert Moffat DD (1795 – 1883)
      • Engineers and Inventors
        • James, Andrew and George Meikle
        • Robert Wilson (1803 – 1882)
        • Thomas Wilson (1782 – 1873)
      • Heroes
        • George Johnstone
        • Sister Violet Fraser (1883 – 1919)
        • Matron Bessie Dora Bowhill (1869 – 1930)
        • Nurse Florence (Florinda) Tunnard
        • Black Agnes: Agnes Randolph, Countess of Dunbar, c1300 – 1361
        • Magdalene Hall De Lancey (1793 – 1822)
      • Military
        • John Penn (1820–86)
        • Warrant Officer II Alan Goodwin
        • Stobs and the Volunteers
        • Captain the Reverend James Kirk MA MC CF
        • Alexander Carrick (1882–1966) RSA, FRBS
        • East Lothian men at Waterloo (I)
        • Major Walter Waring (1876 – 1930)
        • Private Jackie Reid
        • General Sir Francis John Davies and Lord John Alexander Elphinstone
        • The Napoleonic Navy and East Lothian
        • East Lothian men at Trafalgar
        • East Lothian men at Waterloo (II)
        • East Lothian men at Waterloo (III)
        • General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Baronet of Dunbar and Port Sudan (1861-1953)
      • Movers and shakers
        • Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930)
        • Alexander of Haddington, King of Scots
        • The Falls of Dunbar (1692–1796)
        • Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun – The Patriot (1655–1716)
        • Alexander Murray, 4th Lord Elibank
        • Dr. George Harley
        • Countess Ada de Warenne
        • James Smith Richardson LLD (1883-1970)
        • John Cockburn (1695 – 1758)
      • Sports
        • Barney Battles Jnr
        • The East Lothian Golfers
        • Finlay Calder (1957– )
        • William Gemmill
      • Writers
        • Nigel Tranter (1909–2000)
        • Margaret Oliphant (1828–97)
        • George (1771–1835) and James Miller (1791–1865): publishers and authors
        • Peter McNeill (1839–1929)
        • Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–66)
        • Robert Burns Family and East Lothian
        • James Lumsden (1839 – 1909)
        • Richard Gall (1779 – 1801)
    • East Lothian Places
      • Settlements & Sites
        • Parishes
          • Dunbar Parish
          • Oldhamstocks Parish
          • Innerwick
          • Pencaitland
          • Stenton
          • Spott Parish
          • Fala and Soutra Parish
          • Aberlady Parish
          • Athelstaneford Parish
          • Bolton Parish
          • Dirleton Parish
          • Garvald
          • Gladsmuir
          • Humbie Parish
          • Inveresk
          • Morham Parish
          • North Berwick Parish
          • Haddington Parish
          • Ormiston Parish
          • Prestonkirk
          • Prestonpans Parish
          • Saltoun
          • Tranent
          • Whitekirk
          • Whittingehame
          • Yester
        • Towns & Villages
          • Dunbar
            • Close Encounters
            • Dunbar Town Clock
            • Old Inns of Dunbar
            • Brewing in Dunbar
            • Dunbar hotels – One
            • Dunbar Battery Hospital
            • Auld Dunbar – the nickname rhyme
          • Wallyford
          • Broxburn (by Dunbar)
          • West Barns
            • West Barns Brewery – Rise and Decline
          • Belhaven
          • East Barns
          • Innerwick (village)
          • Stenton (village)
          • East Linton
          • Haddington
            • Haddington’s Incorporations
              • Haddington Candlemakers
            • Haddington Trees
            • What to do in Haddington
          • Gullane
          • North Berwick
            • St Andrew’s Kirk, Kirkports, North Berwick – preserving a picturesque ruin
          • Ormiston, a classic East Lothian village
          • Prestonpans, the burgh
            • Prestonpans – the cleanest town in East Lothian
          • Tranent
            • Tranent 1547 – Adventures Underground
        • Sites of interest
          • Prestongrange
          • East Lothian Golf Courses
          • Royal Naval Air Station East Fortune
          • Royal Flying Corps Flight Station Penston
          • Royal Flying Corps Station West Fenton
          • The Palace of Seton: a lost landmark.
      • Places to visit
    • East Lothian Times
      • Our Earliest History (8500 BC–AD 410)
        • East Lothian’s First People (8500–800 BC)
        • Iron Age (800 BC–AD 400)
        • Romans in East Lothian (AD 43–410)
      • Early History & the Middle Ages (AD 410–c. 1484)
        • The ‘Dark Ages’ & Early Christianity (AD 400–1000)
        • The Medieval Church (AD 1000–1500)
        • Battlefields of East Lothian (AD 800–1745)
      • The Growth of Wealth, Church & State (c. 1484–c. 1900)
        • Defensive Structures (AD 1100–1800)
        • Post Medieval (AD 1550–1800)
        • Grand Houses & Policies (AD 1600–1900)
      • Industry & Social Change (1800–Present)
        • Industrial East Lothian (AD 1800–Present)
          • Somnerfield Works, Haddington – Implement Makers and Engineers
      • World Wars I & II (1914–45)
        • East Lothian during World War One
    • East Lothian Subjects
      • Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design 2016
      • Art, culture & communication
        • The Green Man
      • Economy
        • Friendly societies
        • Sailors’ Societies
        • East Lothian Industries
          • The Newbigging Pottery in Musselburgh
          • Beltonford Paper Mill
          • Belfields of Prestonpans
          • Pinta Power
          • Photography
          • Malting, Brewing and Distilling in East Lothian
            • East Lothian Distilleries, a list
          • Brick and Tile making in East Lothian
            • Prestongrange Brick Making
            • List of Brick and Tile Works in East Lothian
          • Dunbar Sea Fish Hatchery
          • Robertson Brothers Engineering Ltd of Haddington
        • Incorporations
        • The East Lothian Bank
        • Smuggling in East Lothian
      • House & home
      • Leisure
        • Horse-racing at Musselburgh
        • East Lothian’s Sports – an introduction
        • Archery
        • Lawn Bowling
        • Nobbie
        • Haddington Camera Club
        • East Lothian – the Home of Golf
        • The Beginning of Haddington Library
      • Society
        • East Lothian’s Criminal Past
        • The Dunbar Lifeboat
        • The Bruce charter: a translation
        • Witchcraft in East Lothian
        • Education in East Lothian – origins
        • Poor Law Records
          • General Registers of the Poor
      • Transport & travel
        • Sailing the Seas to a New Land
        • Toll Roads
      • War, battles & military
        • The Military System in East Lothian 1790–1850
        • The Lothians and Border Horse
        • The Military System In East Lothian 1846–1914
        • A Prince in Prestonpans
        • The Military System in East Lothian 1600 – 1790
        • The Landscape in War
        • The Lothians – Training for war
        • The Napoleonic Garrison in East Lothian
        • East Lothian and Waterloo, an Overview
        • Dunbar 1650
          • Dunbar Claimants 1650
          • Cromwell’s Prisoners
        • World War One Memorials
          • Aberlady World War One Memorial
          • Athelstaneford World War One Memorial
          • Bolton World War One Memorial
          • Cockenzie World War One Memorials
          • Crookston World War One Memorial
          • Dirleton World War One Memorial
          • Dunbar World War One Memorials
          • East Linton World War One Memorials
          • Elphinstone World War One Memorial
          • Garvald World War One Memorial
          • Gladsmuir World War One Memorial
          • Gullane World War One Memorial
          • Haddington World War One Memorials
          • Innerwick World War One Memorial
          • Morham World War One Memorial
          • Musselburgh World War One Memorials
          • North Berwick World War One Memorials
          • Oldhamstocks World War One Memorial
          • Ormiston World War One Memorial
          • Pencaitland World War One Memorial
          • Prestonpans World War One Memorial
          • Saltoun World War One Memorial
          • Spott World War One Memorial
          • Stenton World War One Memorial
          • Tranent World War One Memorials
          • Whitekirk & Tyninghame World War One Memorials
          • Whittingehame World War One Memorial
          • Yester World War One Memorial
        • World War One in the Lothians
          • The Lothians during World War One (I)
          • The Lothians during World War One (II)
          • The Lothians during World War One (III) – Mobilisation
          • The Lothians during World War One (IV) – A Squadron, continued
          • The Lothians during World War One (V) – A Squadron, 1915
          • The 8th (Territorial) Battalion the Royal Scots in World War One
          • Supporting the Troops during World War One
          • Airships over the Bass, Torpedoes in Belhaven Bay
        • World War Two in the Lothians
          • Land Girl Betty Craig tells her story
            • Land girl Betty Craig’s story part 2
            • Land Girl Betty Craig’s story, part 3
            • Land Girl Betty Craig’s story, part 4
            • Land Girl Betty Craig’s story, part 5
            • Land girl Betty Craig’s story, part 6
            • Land girl Betty Craig’s story, part 7
            • Land girl Betty Craig’s story, part 8
            • Land girl Betty Craig’s story, part 9
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