#scandal — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/ro/290704/ Plecarea medicilor români în străinătate, motivul unui nou atac al PSD la adresa lui Bolojan: „Țară ținută pe loc din cauza unui singur om” #AlexandruRogobete #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #CeleMaiPopulareSubiecte #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #IlieBolojan #LatestNews #LatestNews #medici #News #RO #Română #Romania #Romanian #scandal #Știri #Titluri #TopStories #TopStories

🎤🌟 Ah, the scandalous tale of a nearly century-old poetry book that the mighty #Anthropic dared to suppress! Because nothing screams "modern tech drama" like beef over dusty verses on mortality and logic. 🙄📚 I guess when you're out of new ideas, a deep dive into the #archives is the next best thing. #CuttingEdgeInnovation
https://kk.org/cooltools/the-1930-poetry-book-that-anthropic-tried-to-censor/ #poetrybook #scandal #techdrama #literarydebate #HackerNews #ngated

El ministro de Defensa estonio dimite en un escándalo de adquisiciones financiado por la UE por €70 millones para Ucrania (ing)

https://tardigram.com/m/Politica/t/63167

https://www.europesays.com/ro/288669/ Scandal uriaș la Betis – Real Madrid, după penalty-ul ratat de Mbappe! Specialistul s-a pronunțat #betis #BetisRealMadrid #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #CeleMaiPopulareSubiecte #controversa #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #KylianMbappe #LatestNews #LatestNews #News #penalty #RO #Română #Romania #Romanian #scandal #Știri #Titluri #TopStories #TopStories

https://www.europesays.com/videos/88381/ Nigel Farage dismisses foreign donations claim – Watch Friday’s ITV Evening News #aid #Animals #asia #conference #disaster #donations #Emergency #farage #flood #football #funding #Health #insects #investigation #itv #ItvNews #money #mosquito #Nepal #news #NigelFarage #party #politics #reform #ReformUK #rescue #Scandal #species #SuperLeague #Tibet #uk #undercover #Women

In an astonishing revelation sure to shock no one, 🤯 an adult film producer has bravely connected the dots between a #Meta exec and the world's least subtle #piracy habit. Apparently, downloading 20,000 adult film #torrents is just another day at the office for Reality Labs. 🏢💻
https://torrentfreak.com/adult-film-producer-unmasks-prolific-john-doe-torrent-pirate-as-meta-executive/ #adultfilm #RealityLabs #scandal #HackerNews #ngated

In an astonishing revelation sure to shock no one, 🤯 an adult film producer has bravely connected the dots between a #Meta exec and the world's least subtle #piracy habit. Apparently, downloading 20,000 adult film #torrents is just another day at the office for Reality Labs. 🏢💻
https://torrentfreak.com/adult-film-producer-unmasks-prolific-john-doe-torrent-pirate-as-meta-executive/ #adultfilm #RealityLabs #scandal #HackerNews #ngated

In an astonishing revelation sure to shock no one, 🤯 an adult film producer has bravely connected the dots between a #Meta exec and the world's least subtle #piracy habit. Apparently, downloading 20,000 adult film #torrents is just another day at the office for Reality Labs. 🏢💻
https://torrentfreak.com/adult-film-producer-unmasks-prolific-john-doe-torrent-pirate-as-meta-executive/ #adultfilm #RealityLabs #scandal #HackerNews #ngated

In an astonishing revelation sure to shock no one, 🤯 an adult film producer has bravely connected the dots between a #Meta exec and the world's least subtle #piracy habit. Apparently, downloading 20,000 adult film #torrents is just another day at the office for Reality Labs. 🏢💻
https://torrentfreak.com/adult-film-producer-unmasks-prolific-john-doe-torrent-pirate-as-meta-executive/ #adultfilm #RealityLabs #scandal #HackerNews #ngated

In an astonishing revelation sure to shock no one, 🤯 an adult film producer has bravely connected the dots between a #Meta exec and the world's least subtle #piracy habit. Apparently, downloading 20,000 adult film #torrents is just another day at the office for Reality Labs. 🏢💻
https://torrentfreak.com/adult-film-producer-unmasks-prolific-john-doe-torrent-pirate-as-meta-executive/ #adultfilm #RealityLabs #scandal #HackerNews #ngated

https://www.europesays.com/videos/88217/ Nigel Farage dismisses foreign donations claim – Watch Friday’s ITV Evening News #aid #Animals #asia #conference #disaster #donations #Emergency #farage #flood #football #funding #Health #insects #investigation #itv #ItvNews #money #mosquito #Nepal #news #NigelFarage #party #politics #reform #ReformUK #rescue #Scandal #species #SuperLeague #Tibet #uk #undercover #Women

Poland’s #crypto #scandal deepens https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GuyguBSmz1s?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The continuing "Q collar" scandal

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/13/we-should-probably-be-doing-more-coverage-of-science-adjacent-medical-scams-like-the-q-collar-and-less-on-repulsively-self-promoting-but-ultimately-less-harmful-academic-grifters/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296495

#HackerNews #Qcollar #Scandal #ScienceFraud #MedicalScams #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchEthics

#Blues

#Fediverse #Europe Says
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europesays.com/3198208/ Sophie Cunningham name banned from WNBA subreddit amid ‘trans’ scandal
#California #IndianaFever #Scandal #ScandalNews #SophieCunningham #sports #WNBA

Sophie Cunningham name banned ...

🚨🔍 Oh, the irony! The European Parliament's #spyware investigation gets hacked with—you guessed it—spyware! 🕵️‍♂️🔑 Perhaps they should've consulted their own "Expert Insights" before becoming the latest episode of Spy-vs-Spy. 📉🤦‍♂️
https://citizenlab.ca/research/member-of-committee-investigating-spyware-hacked-with-pegasus/ #Scandal #EuropeanParliament #Cybersecurity #Irony #SpyVsSpy #HackerNews #ngated

G-Nitro’s Daily Music Wrap-Up – 5/31/26

I check out a classic album by Willie Colón & Rubén Blades, as well as the latest from SCANDAL.

Favorite Videos include spill tab Live on KEXP, YOUNG POSSE on KPop in School, and more!

https://g-nitro.com/g-nitros-daily-music-wrap-up-5-31-26

#Music #1001Albums #WillieColon #RubenBlades #Scandal #SpillTab #KEXP #YoungPosse #KPopInSchool

https://www.tkhunt.com/2332509/ “Debut”/KATSEYE【COVER】| CALESS ENTERTAINMENT LABO ##かれん #Ami #artist #CALESS #Dance #dancer #Dream #DreamAmi #DREAMMAKER #EGirls #GIRLFRIEND #japan #jayU #JPOP #KPOP #Lead #LittleGleeMonster #music #OneOkRock #osaka #SCANDAL #School #shizuka #Shun #Singer #Song #X4 #アーティスト #イケメン #ギャレス #シンガー #スクール!! #せりな #ダンス #ボーカル #ほのばび #中学生 #京橋 #可愛い #吉田広大 #大阪 #女子 #日本 #清水翔太 #男子 #當山みれい #練習生 #美女 #育成 #芝居 #都島 #高校生

https://www.tkhunt.com/2331981/ “PARTY b4 the PARTY”/SAINT SATINE【COVER】| CALESS ENTERTAINMENT LABO ##かれん #Ami #artist #CALESS #Dance #dancer #Dream #DreamAmi #DREAMMAKER #EGirls #GIRLFRIEND #japan #jayU #JPOP #KPOP #Lead #LittleGleeMonster #music #OneOkRock #osaka #SCANDAL #School #shizuka #Shun #Singer #Song #X4 #アーティスト #イケメン #ギャレス #シンガー #スクール!! #せりな #ダンス #ボーカル #ほのばび #中学生 #京橋 #可愛い #吉田広大 #大阪 #女子 #日本 #清水翔太 #男子 #當山みれい #練習生 #美女 #育成 #芝居 #都島 #高校生

https://www.europesays.com/ro/140245/ „O strâng de gât!” / FOTO: GOLAZO.ro publică noi imagini care susțin povestea unei foste gimnaste abuzate fizic și psihic de Camelia Voinea #CameliaVoinea #dezvăluiri #IoanSuciu #RO #Română #Romania #Romanian #SabrinaVoinea #scandal #Sport #Sports

#Japan’s top #university apologises over #bribery #scandal
"Sato is suspected of accepting favours fr #Tokyo gp exploring business opportunities in te use of #cannabidiol for skin products. Japan #Cosmetic Assoc wanted to conduct a joint study on #CBD, hoping to use te university’s prestige & show te product’s effectiveness on skin conditions.. Univ Pres Fujii acknowledged Tokyo prosecutors were investigat'g a former asoc prof of #dermatology who worked w Sato"🧐 #CBDlobby
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japans-top-university-apologises-over-bribery-scandal

https://www.europesays.com/ro/73355/ Noi înregistrări cu Camelia Voinea / AUDIO. Antrenoarea asmute fanii împotriva unei colege din federație: „Crapă de invidie” #CameliaVoinea #CorinaMorosan #IoanSuciu #RO #Română #Romania #Romanian #SabrinaVoinea #scandal #Sport #Sports

Doris Ogala posts chat receipts and raises new public claims. Read full story below. #DorisOgala #ChrisOkafor #ValidUpdates #Nollywood #celebritynews #scandal #socialmedia

https://validupdates.com/2025/12/doris-ogala-shares-chat-receipts-and-accuses-pastor-chris-okafor-of-dumping-her/

Saturday, November 29, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/11/saturday-november-29-2025/

Saturday, November 15, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/11/saturday-november-15-2025/

https://www.europesays.com/ro/37652/ „Femeia asta e un monstru!” / O altă fostă elevă a Cameliei Voinea o acuză pe aceasta de abuzuri fizice și psihice. „Mi-a smuls smocuri de păr din cap” #CameliaVoinea #DenisaGolgotă #dezvăluiri #IoanSuciu #RO #Română #Romania #Romanian #scandal #Sport #Sports #violenta

Thursday, October 30, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/thursday-october-30-2025/

Thursday, October 30, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/thursday-october-30-2025/

Thursday, October 30, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/thursday-october-30-2025/

Thursday, October 30, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/thursday-october-30-2025/

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https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/thursday-october-30-2025/

Phillip Bump's farewell after being downsized by #ElHefe #Bezos #WashingtonPost is commentary focused on #DJT being unable to simply sell his once most vocal voters & spirited supporters on quietly closing down the #Epstein matter, revealing political perils of building a #MAGA movement bent on stoking #suspicions , cherry picking perspectives, and tearing down #trust in institutions.

Meanwhile as I go to post @pbump link, I see several other #publications, including #Atlantic have articles shared on how the pedantic #Prez primed his own base to not trust him, and other similar takes on the ongoing hopelessly spinning shifty #scandal and inability to stop the #story from spiraling with unintended consequences...

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/07/trump-epstein-scandal-maga-base/683571/?gift=uceGSxyxlYsy3IfUxZfnIg1tRzVknfESkn3tItKWfS8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share #GiftLink

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/trump-epstein-late-stage-conspiracism/683570/?gift=LJE_j_ZDbLws7M7GVT_HAlbqwTzUeZZp7Xu10xTyOLw

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/17/trust-institutions-authoritarianism-trump/

‘The Residence’ Showrunner on Creating an “Indelible” Sleuth With Uzo Aduba, Why Birders Make Good Detectives and That Pop Star Cameo
#TV #TVFeatures #KnivesOut #KylieMinogue #Netflix #RandallPark #Scandal #Shondaland #TheResidence #UzoAduba

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/the-residence-murder-mystery-uzo-aduba-kylie-minogue-interview-1236163404/

Tony Hawk is jealous about 180* flip #JackCocchiarella reacts to #JoeRogan calling out Trump. …Even Joe is a whole character in itself, you gotta give him his point here. #MAGA #Musk #Epstein #Scandal #Selenskyj #JDVance #Trump #Putin #US #Goverment #Reuters #TASS #Russia youtu.be/4ZnYggk8FBQ?...

Joe Rogan ABANDONS Trump After...

#iCon #scandal
"Office of e #Consumer #Protection Board under e #PrimeMinister's Office, deserve to be reprimanded for #completefailure to investigate iCon w complaints by investors abt being cheated by iCon since 2021.. senior officials were accused of abetting & protecting e co.. many businesses r believed to use a similar model to iCon's. Iso selling products, these cos recruit members to #directmarketing teams & stock products.. #government shld focus on tracing this"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2888092/wrap-up-icon-scandal

**Police obtained cell phone video of a sex act between the woman who filed rape charges against #ChristianZiegler, #florida #GOP chair.**

He and his wife had arranged a threesome with her before his wife, #momsforliberty co-founder #BridgetZiegler, backed out. After he informed the woman it would only be a dynamic duo, the woman also backed out. Only moments later, security footage shows he arrived at her door anyway.

#SexualAssault #RapeAllegation #scandal #FloriDuh

https://news.wgcu.org/investigation/2023-12-07/police-have-recovered-video-of-florida-gop-chair-and-alleged-victim-in-rape-investigation

#WSJ Editorial Board wrote:

"Their pearl-clutching reveals the degree of media conformity when it comes to approved progressive political targets like Justice Alito."

I wrote:

"Clutching my pearls, I am canceling my subscription to the WSJ."

#Alito #SCOTUS #scandal #EthicsReform #Ethics #SupremeCourt @ProPublica

Bill Seeks to Oblige South Korean Lawmakers to Declare Crypto Assets - A new bill requiring South Korean lawmakers to disclose their cryptocurrency holdi... - https://news.bitcoin.com/bill-seeks-to-oblige-south-korean-lawmakers-to-declare-crypto-assets/ #politicalscandal #cryptoholdings #cryptoscandal #cryptoassets #requirements #legislation #obligations #southkorean #regulation #disclosure #kimnam-kuk #southkorea #declaring #lawmakers #reporting #lawmaker #scandal #korean #korea #bill

Korean Crypto Exchanges Upbit, Bithumb Raided Over Lawmaker’s Crypto Dealings - South Korean prosecutors have raided two of the country’s largest coin trading pla... - https://news.bitcoin.com/korean-crypto-exchanges-upbit-bithumb-raided-over-lawmakers-crypto-dealings/ #cryptoinvestments #cryptocurrencies #cryptoexchanges #cryptodealings #cryptoholdings #cryptocurrency #transactions #southkorean #kimnam-kuk #politician #southkorea #exchanges #lawmaker #bithumb #scandal #wallets

South Korean Politician Quits Party Over Crypto Scandal - A member of the South Korean parliament is leaving his party amid mounting allegat... - https://news.bitcoin.com/south-korean-politician-quits-party-over-crypto-scandal/ #cryptoinvestments #cryptocurrencies #cryptoholdings #cryptocurrency #investigation #cryptoassets #controversy #resignation #southkorean #kimnam-kuk #politician #southkorea #lawmaker #scandal #crypto #korean #coins #korea #party #wemix #news #kim

#SenateJudiciary Cmte Held Hearing 3/2/23 On #EthicsCode For #SupremeCourt Amidst #ClarenceThomas #scandal #SCOTUS #EthicsReforms #ethics #testimony #checksandbalances #corruption #recusal #statusquo #HarlanCrow #publicservice #judicialpower #federaljudiciary Enforce the #CodeofConduct #crisis #public #confidence #JudicialActivism #PartisanJudiciary #OathofOffice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ4kKO73q1w

The thread about Marionville; the house that thread built and home to the unfortunate “Fortunate Duellist”

This thread was originally written and published in November 2019. It has been lightly edited and corrected as applicable for this post.

There’s an old Georgian villa in the east of Edinburgh called Marionville. It lends its name to the district, a few streets and a fire station. It’s your typical regular, 3-storey, 5-bay, 6-over-6 window, sandstone job and although it is quite a rarity in a largely 20th century part of town, at first glance it is otherwise unremarkable for Edinburgh.

Unremarkable that is until you find out a little bit about the place’s history! It was built some time between the 1760s and 1780s by the Misses Ramsay of Old Lyon Close, milliners renowned in the burgh for their ribboned hats. When built it was called Viewfrith (as in a house where one could view the Frith, or Firth of Forth. On account of its occupants trade, it was scornfully nicknamed the Lappet Ha‘, lappet referring to the woven lacework that was common in Georgian women’s hats. Ha’ for ball; the house that lappet built. The misses Ramsay saw out their days in their fine house and its gardens, and in October 1780 it was noted as being for sale:

About 1786 it passed to one James Macrae of Holmains Esq. who liked to be known as Captain Macrae on account of his service in the 6th Dragoon Guards (Irish Carabiniers), a Hanoverian cavalry regiment. By accounts he was both a sophisticated, cultured charmer and an arrogant, pompous “Goth“. It was Macrae who renamed the house, calling it for his wife, Maria Cecile le Maistre.

Captain Macrae had a quick temper and an overinflated sense of his own status. He was nicknamed the “fortunate duellist” on account of his propensity to call for satisfaction and on not being dead as a result. He practised by firing at a barber’s block kept specially for the purpose, or so John Kay caricatured him.

The Macraes soon built up a reputation as a home of the “gayest private theatricals, perhaps in Britain“. Being wealthy and aspirational with tastes “gay and fashionable” they had a 150-seat private theatre built, complete with stage, curtain and scenery in the house where the couple themselves took the starring roles. The great and the good of Edinburgh were invited and the shows were a hot ticket in town, being well reviewed in the papers. The Scots Magazine and Caledonian Mercury were full of gushing praise for them.

Maria Macrae was the daughter of the Swedish ambassador’s wife and had spent time in Paris with her cousins. It was there she got a taste for the private theatricals of the time and it was she who was chiefly responsible for reproducing them at Marionville. The Macrae’s inner circle was a centre of Georgian high fashion in Edinburgh, the women wore head-dresses so tall that they had to “sit on the carriage floor” and the men wore “bright coats with tails to their heels” and “wigs with great side curls“. The innermost of their circle were the Ramsays (no relation to the Misses), Sir George Ramsay of Bamff, 6th Baronet and his wife, Eleanor Fraser. They were “warmly attached and intimate” with the Macraes.

So all was good. Everyone was happy and Marionville was the place to be seen around town. Macrae was highly regarded in the right circles, but his pomposity and temper would be his unravelling. An example of this was when a messenger of the law tried to arrest his cousin, the Reverend John Cunningham, Earl Glencairn, at a private party in Drumsheugh House. Macrae was outraged that a common man would insult a gentleman, and threw the messenger over the stairwell. When it later came to light that Cunningham was a debtor who had refused all chance to settle his obligations and that the messenger had been gravely injured, Macrae made an apology and paid compensation of 300 guineas to settle the matter.

And then we come to the fateful night of April 7th 1790. Captain Macrae had been out at the Theatre Royal, which stood on Shakespeare Square, opposite the General Register Office and where the General Post Office would later be built. Being a gentleman, he was helping a lady to get a chair to convey her home (this meant a sedan chair; at this time were still the principal form of public transport of choice for the moneyed classes around town). He had secured the lady her chair when a liveried footman appeared on the scene and seized one of the poles of the chair to reserve it for his mistress. The outraged Macrae rapped the impertinent servant’s knuckles with his cane.

The footman, not to be cowed, denounced Macrae as a scoundrel and punched him in the chest. Macrae responded by striking him across the head with his cane. An almighty fracas ensued, sucking in passers-by on both sides. Somehow the conflict was defused and the lady was spirited to safety in another chair. And there it might have ended until Macrae was made aware that the footman in question was an employee of his dear friend, Sir George Ramsay.

And so, the following day Macrae sought out Ramsay at his place of business. His friend informed him that the servant in question was recently engaged by his wife and he felt that he had no hand in the matter. Macrae insisted that he would therefore apologise to the lady at once. Hurrying to the Ramsay’s house on St. Andrew Square, he found her sitting for an up and coming your artist, one Henry Raeburn. Theatrically going down on one knee, Macrae begged forgiveness for having chastised her servant. And there it would have ended. But…

A few days later at Marionville, an anonymous letter arrived stating that Macrae had meddled with the “Knights of the Shoulder Knot” (the name given to footmen for their elaborate uniforms) and they would have their revenge for the insult to their brother. The footman in question, James Merry, took the matter further by making it known he would take legal proceedings against his assailant for the injuries he had suffered. Piqued, Macrae wrote to Ramsay and demanded that the man be put in his place and discharged. For whatever reason, Ramsay declined to satisfy his friend and their relationship quickly soured as the two engaged in a protracted series of increasingly intemperate letters. This culminated in Macrae having his messenger inform Ramsay that he was not a gentleman, but a scoundrel!

That was that! Macrae had overstepped the mark for sure, Ramsay was a proper gentleman, with a title, not someone you could go around insulting. The intermediary, one Captain Amory, arranged a meeting of both parties in Bayle’s Tavern at which “rough epithets were exchanged“. The outcome was inevitable and satisfaction was demanded by Macrae. But he let it be known that he considered Ramsay the challenger, for refusing to deal with his servant.

The time and place was set for the shore outside of Musselburgh at noon the next day. What better place to settle your differences than in the cool sea breeze of the Honest Toun? And so it was that the next day the two gentlemen, each with another in tow as second, met at Wards Inn off of the Musselburgh Links. A surgeon, Benjamin Bell, was sensibly arranged for.

A parlay took place to see if things could be settled amicably, without either side losing face. Macrae demanded that if Ramsay dismiss his servant he would apologise profusely for all that had followed and consider it closed. Ramsay demanded an apology first, before any further progress could be made. Both sides were intransigent. The seconds which each side had brought as counsel declined further compromise and the course of action was now set. Each man took a pistol from a pair and made his way to the allotted spot on the Links. Each then walked 14 paces away from the other and the duel commenced. Ramsay shot first and nicked the collar of his late friend, grazing the neck. Macrae did not miss and Ramsay was mortally wounded. Macrae would later claim that he had planned to shoot high and miss on purpose, but was so outraged that Ramsay had not deliberately missed and had drawn blood that he decided to settle the matter once and for all by not missing. For a sure shot like Macrae, the outcome was inevitable.

The deed done, Macrae was suddenly remorseful and had to be convinced to leave his dying friends’ side by Ramsay’s second, Sir William Maxwell. Edinburgh society was outraged and it was Macrae, the lower status gentleman that they squarely blamed for this calamity. Being a proper class scandal, the detail was all printed at the time (then, as now, controversy was good for sales) and Macrae was immortalised as “The Fortunate Duellist” by Edinburgh caricaturist John Kay. By trade Kay was a barber, so the story of the practice target may have appealed to him as much as the chance to satirise events.

Facing a potential murder charge, Macrae abandoned Marionville and his family and fled to Paris accompanied by his second, Captain Amory. They took up lodgings in the Hôtel de la Dauphine. A summons soon arrived from Edinburgh to return and face the law. Ignoring it, both were declared outlaws and consigned themselves to live out their days in exile. To add insult to Macrae’s injury, 2 years later the Sheriffs awarded damages and compensation to the footman for his original injuries, which were paid from Macrae’s estate in his absence. Macrae stayed in Paris until the coming of the French revolution compelled his to flee further, this time to Altona in Italy. He had hoped that the passage of time would allow him to return home to Marionville, but society and the law were resolved against it.

And so it was that the gayest house in town fell into “an air of depression and melancholy such as could barely fail to strike the most unobservant passenger“. It was advertised as being to let in 1793 and the following year it was for sale. Macrae was soon forgotten by the chattering classes of Edinburgh. That is until 1814, when publisher Robert Chambers relates that “a gentleman of my acquaintance was surprised to meet him one day in a Parisian coffee house“. “The wreck or ghost of the handsome, sprightly man he had once been.” “The comfort of his home, his country and his friends, the use of his talents to all these, had been lost, and himself obliged to lead the life of a condemned Cain, all through the one fault of a fiery temper“.

Captain Macrae, late of Marionville, died alone in Paris on the 16th January 1820, 30 years an exile from his home, wife and 2 children. “Captain Macrae was a strange character. To those of his own class a tyrant and bully. To those below him he was kind and obliging”. At this time his old house was in the possession of a Mr and Mrs Dudgeon although it was for sale again shortly after, the new owner being Walter Stirling Glas, esq. The house was repeatedly for sale and let throughout the 19th century. A flick through some old Post Office directories enlightens us that from approximately 1858 to 1869, it was being used by Dr. Guthrie’s “Original Ragged Industrial School” .

In 1932, Marionville was purchased by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edinburgh and St. Andrews for use as the manse for St. Ninian’s & Triduana’s Church, which was built in the grounds at this time. Its last occupant before the church took it over would appear to be one Miss W. Crawford Brown and the house  was sold back into private use within the past few years. The church, which was never actually completed to the intended design, is surprisingly the work of that most British of British architects, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (of red telephone box and Battersea power station fame).

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