James Scrimgeour

Scrimgeour was patron of an altar in Dundee Parish Kirk dedicated to Saint Margaret of Scotland, and even after the Scottish Reformation was able to present candidates to this church position, in January 1580 he wrote to John Erskine of Dun recommending Robert Gray, a son of the laird of Ballegerno, who would be able to use the income to fund his studies at school and university.

[2] Scrimgeour was a supporter of the Earl of Angus in April 1584 and was one of those commanded to surrender Stirling Castle and Mar's Wark.

[8] Scrimgeour's role in the royal proxy marriage was celebrated in a Latin poem by the Edinburgh schoolmaster Hercules Rollock, which describes him swallowing a huge gulp of red wine while toasting Christian IV, and also alludes to his exile in Denmark in the 1580s during the ascendency of James Stewart, Earl of Arran.

[14] On 25 May 1598 he came to the banquet for the queen's brother the Duke of Holstein at Holyrood Palace and brought gifts of moor fowls, capercaillies, black cocks, kids, roe deer, and dotterels.

[15] On 15 December 1612 Scrimgeour wrote to the Privy Council to apologise for not attending to discuss a riot in Dundee caused by the Laird of Ruthven.

[16] He died in December 1612 at Holyrood Palace in the lodging of Christian Lindsay, poet and baker, and wife of William Murray, Master of the carriage.