Glen Coe around Invercoe. In 1894 Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal purchased this area and built a stately mansion, Mount Royal. In 2002 Alistair MacDonald of Glencoe made a successful eleventh-hour bid, and purchased the remaining lands of Lord Strathcona from his descendants. Alistair received unsecured loans from just six donors, and immediately set up the Glencoe Heritage Trust, a non-profit-making charitable trust, to secure the heritage of this part of Glen Coe. Glen Coe is a very popular tourist destination: partly because of its scenic qualities and historical associations, partly because it is on the main road
Clan Trotter Dragoons. Alexander Richard Trotter of Mortonhall, and 5th of Charterhall, and chief of the Name and Arms of Trotter, JP, DL. Clan Trotter Clan Trotter is a Scottish clan of the Scottish Borders. The name Trotter is believed to be derived from the French word which means "runner" or "messenger". There is a tradition that a brother of Lord Gifford was given the name for delivering a message with great speed to James III of Scotland. The chiefs of the clan in the Scottish Borders were the Trotters of Prentannan in Berwickshire. They followed the Clan Home on many of