Clans of West Lothian
Linlithgow Palace, birthplace of James V and Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Families seated in West Lothian
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Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in West Lothian.
- Mary, Queen of ScotsThe infant Queen of Scots who became Queen of France at sixteen, returned to rule her own realm at eighteen, and through her grandson James the Sixth and First united the crowns of Scotland and England.
- Tam Dalyell of the BinnsThe West Lothian Labour MP and 11th Baronet of the Binns whose forty-three-year backbench parliamentary career, his framing of the constitutional West Lothian Question in 1977, and his Father of the House precedence from 2001 made him the conscience of the Commons across the late twentieth century.
- Sir James Young SimpsonThe Bathgate baker's son who at twenty-eight was elected Professor of Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh, and who on the evening of the fourth of November 1847 in the dining room of his Queen Street house demonstrated to two assisting physicians that chloroform vapour produced surgical anaesthesia, the foundational discovery of modern anaesthetic medicine.