Cattlemen and Cowboys of Scotland
Profiles of beef cattle people connected to Scotland.
- 1808-1895Amos CruickshankAt Sittyton in Aberdeenshire, a tenant farmer built the Scotch Shorthorn that breeders in Britain and America sought…Scotland
- 1789-1865Hugh WatsonA nineteen-year-old tenant began with six cows and one bull at Keillor and laid the base of the Aberdeen-Angus breed.Scotland
- 1789-1857John WaughTwo surviving pocket-books show how a Galloway drover bought, borrowed and drove thousands of cattle south in the…Scotland
- 1779-1854Robert Barclay-AllardiceThe Aberdeenshire laird known as Captain Barclay is credited with helping set the Shorthorn on its path in Scotland.Scotland
- 1839-1907Sir George Macpherson-Grant, 3rd BaronetA young baronet turned an old polled herd at Ballindalloch into one of the breed's great show herds.Scotland
- 1805-1880William McCombieA tenant farmer from Alford who blended the polled cattle of north-east Scotland into a breed.Scotland
Also honored
- Laurence Dalgleish fl. 1864-1873 Grazier who bought Highland bullocks yearly 1864-1873 and fed them on grass, hay and cake, writing an account of the system.