Susan Brown (minister) Scotland. She took up the position in May 2018. Susan Brown (minister) Susan M. Brown (born 12 December 1958) is a Scottish Presbyterian minister. She is the minister at Dornoch Cathedral and Honorary Chaplain to the Queen in Scotland. She was the first woman to take charge of a cathedral in the United Kingdom. She has officiated at the weddings of Madonna and Guy Ritchie, and of Ashley Judd and Dario Franchitti. She was previously minister at Killearnan Church, near Muir of Ord in Ross-Shire. On 9 October 2017, it was announced that she had been nominated as the next
Battle of Skibo and Strathfleet Battle of Skibo and Strathfleet The Battle of Skibo and Strathfleet was prompted by Clan Donald's invasion of the area around Dornoch in northern Scotland in 1480. Two attacks were repulsed by the local clans of Clan Sutherland and the Murrays of Aberscross. In 1462, John MacDonald of Islay, Earl of Ross had entered into a secret treaty, in which he agreed to become a vassal of Edward IV of England in return for help in conquering northern Scotland. When James III of Scotland discovered this agreement in 1476, he stripped John of his possessions on the mainland. John spent