Sir Peter Housden's latest missive tells Scottish civil servants to prepare for independence.

I can see these Scottish servants need taking in hand too.

Alexander Macleay (1767-1848), Scottish civil servant and entomologist.

A Scottish indentured servant and three black slaves were also punished.

Walter Chepman was a Scottish merchant, notary and civil servant active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

John Finlaison (1783-1860) was a Scottish civil servant, government actuary and the first president of the Institute of Actuaries.

But did you know that Victoria went on her holidays in disguise, and was best pals with her rude Scottish servant?

Then a Scottish civil servant named Charles Kennedy built a summer home in Shimla in 1822 and nothing was ever the same again.

Sir Walter Elliot (16 January 1803-1 March 1887) was a Scottish civil servant in India.

Paulet also curtailed her charitable activities in the town, and disarmed her Scottish servants, many of whom had pistols.