The Alexanders of Menstrie, also known as the House of Alexander, are a sept of Clan MacAlister of Scotland. The family is said to descend from Somerled...

Menstrie (Scottish Gaelic: Meanstraidh) is a village in the county of Clackmannanshire in Scotland. It is about five miles (eight kilometres) east-northeast...

(1614, 1637). William Alexander was the son of Alexander of Menstrie and Marion, daughter of an Allan Couttie. He was born at Menstrie Castle, near Stirling...

a Baronet, of Menstrie, Clackmannanshire in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 12 July 1625, then Lord Alexander of Tullibody and Viscount of Stirling on...

Menstrie Castle is a three-storey manor house in the town of Menstrie, Clackmannanshire, near Stirling, central Scotland. From the early 17th century...

the ancestor the Alexanders of Menstrie, earls of Stirling from 1633. Little is known about the descendants of Gofraidh, second son of Alasdair Mòr. According...

Sir James Holborne of Menstrie was a Scottish soldier during the years of the English Civil War. He eventually reached the rank of Major General and fought...

Gille Escoib or Gilleasbaig of Menstrie is the earliest member of the Campbell family to be attested in contemporary sources, appearing in royal charters...

holder's only son, Claud Miles (born 1998). Alexander baronets Cable-Alexander baronets Alexanders of Menstrie Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage...

Alasdair Mór. He is also considered to possibly be the ancestor of the Alexanders of Menstrie. Macdonald; Macdonald 1900, 2: pp. 34–37. McAndrew 2006: p....

Baron of Menstrie (Baron of Menstry) was a title in the baronage of Scotland. Thomas MacAlexander Alexander MacAlexander Andrew MacAlexander Alexander Alexander...

158°N 3.857°W / 56.158; -3.857 Menstrie Glen is the glen which separates Dumyat from Myreton Hill and the main body of the Ochil Hills in Scotland. Once...

consideration for the Dean of Ferns in 1862. The family was of Scottish descent and descended from the Alexanders of Menstrie. He was educated at Trinity...

son of the advocate Sir James Holburn, 2nd Baronet (grandson of Major General James Holborne of Menstrie) by his second wife Jean, the daughter of Alexander...

Sir William Alexander of Menstrie, afterwards Earl of Stirling, which ripened into a lifelong friendship after Drummond's visit to Menstrie in 1614. Drummond's...

Laura (1597), 40 sonnets. William Alexander of Menstrie (later Earl of Stirling), Aurora (1604), containing 125 lyrics of which 105 are sonnets. William...

The Holburne Museum (formerly known as the Holburne of Menstrie Museum and the Holburne Museum of Art) is located in Sydney Pleasure Gardens, Bath, Somerset...

William Alexander of Menstrie (later, 1st Earl of Stirling). Between 1644 and 1840, ownership of the estate changed hands frequently. The origins of the village...

created a Baronet of Nova Scotia under Sir William Alexander of Menstrie's scheme to promote that part of Canada as a Scottish colony. Also in the 17th century...

The Holburn Baronetcy, of Menstrie in the County of Clackmannan, was a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 21 June 1706 for James...

the coast of Nova Scotia, which were erected into a barony. He assisted under agreement Sir William Alexander of Menstrie in the plantation of a colony...

In 1613 Foulis obtained the contract for the mine with William Alexander of Menstrie and Paulo Pinto from Portugal. Stephen Atkinson worked at Hilderston...

Elizabeth Butler, daughter of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond.) Murray's sonnets, like those of William Alexander of Menstrie are anglicised in vocabulary...

that year King James I (James VI of Scotland) granted Sir William Alexander of Menstrie a charter to create the colony of Nova Scotia (“New Scotland”) which...

against him. Through the influence of his wife's cousin, Sir William Alexander of Menstrie, afterwards first Earl of Stirling, this was averted, and he...

1632, Nova Scotia briefly became a Scottish colony. Sir William Alexander of Menstrie Castle, Scotland claimed mainland Nova Scotia and settled at Port...

behind the placement of Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment. Born in Stirling, he was the eldest son of Edward Alexander of Powis, Clackmannanshire...

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Sir William was born in 1577 in Menstrie, a village lying a few miles to the north east of Stirling. He was one of several tutors to Prince Henry, heir...

the most daring and brilliant exploits of the British army. Ralph Abercromby was born on 7 October 1734 at Menstrie Castle, Clackmannanshire. He was the...