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
Skibo Castle is the anglicisation of Scottish Gaelic "Sgìobal", which in turn comes from an Old Norse name meaning either firewood-steading or Skithi's steading. The first record of Skibo Castle is a charter from 1211. From its early history, the castle was a residence of the Bishops of Caithness. Skibo Castle remained the residence of subsequent bishops until 1545, when the estate was, as a tactical measure by the church, given to John Gray in order to reinforce its alliance with a powerful family as the threat of a Protestant uprising spread towards the north. In 1745, Robert Gray surrendered the estate.