The Appin Murder: The Killing That Shook a Nation by James Hunter

Author:James Hunter [Hunter, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780277202
Google: lxQ2zgEACAAJ
Publisher: Birlinn, Limited
Published: 2021-07-15T23:31:33.182184+00:00

* One pound Scots was equal to one-twelfth of that amount (1s. 8d.) in sterling.

* Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, was a leading Scottish judge.

* It is one of the oddities of the story told here that it connects three of nineteenth-century Britain’s leading literary figures. Walter Scott met in Duror with Alexander Stewart of Invernahyle and wove Stewart’s tales into Waverley. Robert Louis Stevenson, who also visited Duror, placed Colin Campbell’s killing at the centre of Kidnapped. Macaulay, though nowhere touching explicitly on his grandfather’s Duror links, wrote knowledgeably about the West Highlands in his multi-volume History of England.

* In printed versions of the documentation generated by James Stewart’s trial, Acharn, not Achara, appears in passages relating to this point. But it’s obvious from the context that it was Achara that was meant.

* This comment is the basis of the notion, given currency by Robert Louis Stevenson in Kidnapped, that Colin Campbell was commonly called the Red Fox. He wasn’t – being known simply and universally as Cailean Ruadh, Red Colin.

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