Keepers of the Kingdom

[SFCRick]

Fantastic photos

[Highlander31]

Nice photos.

[Kid Cossack]

Gents, ladies, lads, lasses:

Sir Fitzroy MacLean was a rare man among men, a scholar, a soldier, a spy----if you've not read "Eastern Approaches" you are, I shall assert, the poorer for it.

As Dashiell Hammett said in an entirely different context, he's the kind of man whose pocket you'd be proud to pick.

Having read some of his ouerve (sp?), I can say that seeing the gentleman photographed I saw exactly that kind of man I would have expected.

Would that the picture showed him in a kilt!

[JSFMACLJR]

Gents, ladies, lads, lasses:

Sir Fitzroy MacLean was a rare man among men,
Would that the picture showed him in a kilt!

As you requested, Kid Cossack!

[Kid Cossack]

Aye and it be my imagination that turns that pipe into a claymore!

I'm sure that those pictures show a man who has known doubt . . . but ye'd not know it from the pictures. Confidence, style and (dare I say it?) panache. If I should dare to award "extra points" I would have to add extra points for the old school kilt pin.

Elegance . . . defined.

[Joseph McLaren]

I've found another picture here of the 'Cock o' the North', the Marquis of Huntly, wearing his yellow hose/flashes combo again, this time at the 2007 Aboyne Highland games. Who the other chaps are, I've no idea.

[Joseph McLaren]

Who the other chaps are, I've no idea.

a swift bit of googling reveals the other fellow with the feathers as the marquis' son, the earl of Aboyne.

[Rollo]

Very great pics ! thanks.

[heilanner]

I've found another picture here of the 'Cock o' the North', the Marquis of Huntly, wearing his yellow hose/flashes combo again, this time at the 2007 Aboyne Highland games. Who the other chaps are, I've no idea.

ah, my photo!! i was just going to post it.

i only know who one of the other men is, and that is the man to the far right in the black Argyle, Robbie Shepherd. he was the announcer at the games and is a DJ for BBC Radio Scotland as well as a columnist for Aberdeen Press & Journal newspaper.

i have to say though, i hate those yellow socks with a passion. to my eye everyone (with the exception of the guy with the ridiculously huge horsehair sporran) looks better dressed than the Marquis.

[JSFMACLJR]

If I were the Marquess of Huntly, I might have chosen garters of a different colour, but I quite like yellow hose.

It is interesting that you dislike Lord Aboyne's horsehair sporran so much, as I think it to be a very attractive one indeed. One rarely sees hair sporrans worn in the daytime, but there are a number of Scots who do wear them. Lord Lovat springs to mind. They certainly were quite popular in the 19th century as day wear. I personally would not choose to wear one until the evening, but Aboyne certainly is dressed quite traditionally.