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Famous Moravians
Welcome to our 'Famous Moravians' section of the site. This library of well known past andpresent Moray residents will continue to build into a great resource for all...
Hugh Falconer - We should raise a celebratory cup to Hugh Falconer of Forres. Why a cup and not a glass? Because in recognising the life and achievements of Hugh Falconer we celebrate a Moray great who brought tea drinking to the ordinary man and woman in Victorian Britain....
James Ramsay MacDonald
- The Prime Minister From Lossiemouth. James Ramsay MacDonald from
Lossiemouth was the first British Labour prime minister. MacDonald
played a conspicuous part in the political history of 20th century
Britain and yet never forgot his Lossiemouth roots...
James Philip
- Of all those Moravians who made their mark nationally or
internationally, few could have had as colourful a career as the boy
from Dallas, James Philip, rancher, senator, gold prospector, the man
who saved the buffalo from extinction, the brother-in-law of Sioux
Chief, Crazy Horse...
Patrick Sellar
- If one person epitomised all that was hated about the Highland
Clearances that man would be identified as Elgin born Patrick Sellar.
Indeed his gravestone at Elgin Cathedral still attracts visitors from
overseas with Scottish connections eager to record their hatred...
George Gordon
- Man of Science. Moray Connections celebrates the achievements of
those from Moray who made their mark nationally or internationally.
For most, that meant going out to the world...
John Ogilvie
- This is the remarkable story of John Ogilvie, who as a Catholic
priest in penal times had to operate under the cloak of secrecy. He was
eventually captured, tortured and in 1615 hanged, aged just 36. His
crime? Failing to disown his religion...
William Marshall
- William Marshall was born at Fochabers, Banffshire, on the 27th
December 1748. When about twelve years of age he entered the service of
the Duke of Gordon and soon rose to be butler and house-steward...
Donald Alexander Smith - Lord Strathcona - was bron in Forres on August 6, 1820. Educated at Anderson Institution, he joined the town clerk's office at
the age of 16, but two years later, emigrated to Canada to join the
Hudson's Bay Company. Later Smith became a skilled businessman and by the turn of the 20th century, he was easily the wealthiest Canadian of his time....
George Stephen - Lord Mountstephen - If Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona, from Forres, was Canada's richest man in the 1900s, his younger cousin George Stephen, from Dufftown, was not far behind. And as 1st Baron Mount Stephen, he was the first Canadian to attain a peerage...
To find out more about these famous Moravians please click their name and read on...