Peterhead
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Peterhead Scottish Gaelic Ceann Phàdraig |
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| Coordinates | 57 ° 31 ′ N , 1 ° 47 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 18,537 2011 census | ||
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| Post town | PETERHEAD | ||
| ZIP code section | AB42 | ||
| prefix | 01779 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | Aberdeenshire | ||
| British Parliament | Banff and Buchan | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Banffshire and Buchan Coast | ||
Peterhead ( Gaelic : Ceann Phàdraig ) is a town and the largest settlement in Aberdeenshire at the easternmost point of Scotland with 18,537 inhabitants (as of 2011). Until 1983 it was home to the Glenugie whiskey distillery .
history
Peterhead and the surrounding area were formerly owned by the wealthy Deer Abbey , established in 1219 by William Comyn, Earl of Buchan . In 1593 the area of the abbey was converted into a secular manor in favor of George Keith, 4th Earl Marischal , who was then Abbot of Deer. George Keith raised Peterhead to the Burgh of Barony . As a result, it developed into a fishing port. The rulership of the city now remained in the hands of the Earl Marischals until their Earl dignity expired in 1715. On Christmas Day that year, Peterhead was the site of the landing of the pretender to the throne, James Francis Edward Stuart . In 1720 an English fishing company bought the town and its lands. After their failed engagement, Peterhead was bought by the Merchant Maidens' Hospital in Edinburgh for 3,000 pounds, the rulers thereby gaining supremacy over the city and choosing among others the Baillie . In the 18th century, Peterhead was briefly a modern health resort. In the early 19th century it developed into an important center for the Greenlandic seal and whaling industry, while herring fishing later came to the fore. Nowadays, the city remains a major UK fishing port.
Sports
The football club FC Peterhead plays in the Scottish League Two .
Town twinning
Twin city of Peterhead is Ålesund in Norway.
sons and daughters of the town
- William Aitken , soccer player and coach
- Eric Temple Bell , mathematician and science fiction writer
- Margaret Jope , biochemist
- George Keith (1638 or 1639 to 1716), Scottish Quaker missionary, in Germany and the Netherlands in the 1670s, then in New Jersey , later joined the Anglican Church and returned to England
- George Keith, 9th Earl Marischal (1693–1778), Scottish Jacobite and diplomat and friend of Frederick the Great . He was born at Inverugie Castle (two miles from Peterhead), a moth that the Cheyne family built in the 12th century (hence Cheyne's Tower), later passed on to the Earl Marischal's and is now in ruins.
- James Keith (1696–1758), Field Marshal General under Frederick the Great
- Gilbert Mair Sr. (1799–1857), seaman, trader and 1835 co-signatory of the New Zealand Declaration of Independence
- Estelle Maskame (* 1997), author
- Peter Mullan (* 1959), actor and filmmaker
Individual evidence
- ^ Information from the Scottish Parliament
- ↑ 2011 census
- ↑ Presentation on Whiskiesofscotland.com
- ^ GMS Fischer: Peterhead , in: Johann Samuelansch , Johann Gottfried Gruber : (Ed.): Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , 3rd section, 19th part (1844), p. 67 f.
- ↑ Peterhead , in Encyclopædia Britannica , 11th edition, 1910-11, Vol. 21, p. 299.
- ^ Peterhead in Encyclopædia Britannica online.
