Kirkcudbrightshire - Kirkcudbrightshire Kirkcudbrightshire (pronounced Ker-COO-bree-shire, also known as the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright or as East Galloway) is a county of south-western Scotland, bounded on the north and north-west by Ayrshire, W. and S.W. by Wigtownshire, S. and SE. by the Irish Sea and the Solway Firth, and E. and N.E. by Dumfriesshire. It includes the small islands of Hestan and Little Ross. It had an area of 575,565 acres or 899 sq. m. The north-western part of the shire is rugged, wild and desolate. In this quarter the principal mountains are Merrick (2764 feet), the highest in the south of Scotland, and the group of the Rinns of Kells, the chief peaks of which are Corserine (2668 feet), Carlins Cairn (2650 feet), Meikle Millyea (2446 feet) and.
Kirkcudbright - was at first based in the Town Hall until it became too small. The collection moved to a purpose-built site and contains the local and natural history of the eastern part of Galloway, formerly known as Kirkcudbrightshire and now known as the Stewartry. Britain's earliest surviving sporting trophy, the Siller Gun, is part of the collection, as are paintings by the many local artists. The Tolbooth was built between 1625 and 1629 and served not only as the tollbooth, but also the council offices, the Burgh and Sheriff courts, the criminal prison and the debtors' prison. One of its most famous prisoners was John Paul Jones, hero of the American navy. The building is now used as an Arts Centre..
James Clerk Maxwell - the full genius of its author. About the same time appeared his elaborate memoir, “On Faraday’s Lines of Force,” in which he gave the first indication of some of those extraordinary electrical investigations which culminated in the greatest work of his life. From 1855 to 1872, he published at intervals a series of valuable investigations connected with the “Perception of Colour” and “Colour-Blindness,” for the earlier of which he received the Rumford medal from the Royal Society in 1860. The instruments which he devised for these investigations were simple and convenient, but could not have been thought of for the purpose except by a man whose knowledge was co-extensive with his ingenuity. In 1856, Maxwell was appointed to the chair of Natural Philosophy in Marischal College, Aberdeen, which he held until.
Traditional counties of Scotland - Buteshire Caithness Clackmannanshire Cromartyshire Dumfriesshire Dunbartonshire East Lothian (Haddingtonshire) Fife Inverness-shire Kincardineshire Kinross-shire Kirkcudbrightshire Lanarkshire Midlothian (Edinburghshire) Morayshire Nairnshire Orkney Peeblesshire Perthshire Renfrewshire Ross-shire Roxburghshire Selkirkshire Shetland Stirlingshire Sutherland Wigtonshire West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) Map of the traditional counties, courtesy of the Association of British Counties Note: Due to the fragmentary nature of Cromartyshire, it is shown as a single geographical area with Ross-shire, the combined area being labelled "Ross-shire and Cromartyshire". For a more detailed map showing these two counties, see the Cromartyshire article. See also: Association of British Counties.
Shire - in England Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Derbyshire Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Lancashire Lincolnshire Leicestershire Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Shropshire Staffordshire Warwickshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire In England, the counties of Devon and Dorset are occasionally referred to with the 'shire' suffix. Shires in Scotland Aberdeenshire Argyllshire Ayrshire Banffshire Berwickshire Buteshire Clackmannanshire Cromartyshire Dumfriesshire Dunbartonshire Inverness-shire Kincardineshire Kinross-shire Kirkcudbrightshire Lanarkshire Morayshire Nairnshire Peeblesshire Perthshire Renfrewshire Ross-shire Roxburghshire Selkirkshire Sutherlandshire Stirlingshire Wigtonshire In Scotland four counties have alternative names with the 'shire' suffix: Angus/Forfarshire, East Lothian/Haddingtonshire, Midlothian/Edinburghshire and West Lothian/Linlithgowshire. Sutherlandshire is also know as simply Sutherland. Shires in Wales Brecknockshire Caernarvonshire Cardiganshire Carmarthenshire Denbighshire Flintshire Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Pembrokeshire Radnorshire In Wales, the counties of Merioneth and Glamorgan are occasionally referred to with the 'shire' suffix. The only Welsh county that never takes.
