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• Robert Stewart
  ...rter in [[1565]]. Robert compelled Adam Bothwell, (then Bishop of Orkney), to exchange the Bishopric of Orkney for the Abbey of Holyrood in 1568. Robert ...[[Laurence Bruce (i)|Laurence Bruce]] of Cultmalindie ''[[Foud|foud]]'' of Shetland. Bruce was an even greater tyrant than Stewart, and was the subject of a ma
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• Patrick Stewart
  ...d Kirkwall ([[1607]]) – had to be financed by his subjects in Orkney and Shetland. ''Earl Patrick Stewart's pomp was so great, as he never went from his castle to the kirk, nor abroad otherwise, without the convoy of fifty musketeers, and
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• George Waterston
  ...980) was a was a Scottish ornithologist and conservationist, best known in Shetland for purchasing [[Fair Isle]] in [[1947]] and opening the [[Fair Isle Bird O In [[1955]], ownership of [[Fair Isle]] passed to the National Trust for Scotland.
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• Papa Stour
  |population=9 (2008) [http://www.shetland-news.co.uk/news_02_2008/Papas%20population%20hits%20single%20figures.htm] ...nd today is [[Biggings]]. Ferries now sail to [[West Burrafirth]] on the [[Shetland Mainland]] and there is an airstrip which caters for regular flights from [
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