of Hamilton and 1st Duke of Brandon, major investor in the failed Darien Scheme and British ambassador to Louis XIV of France Major General David Tennant Cowan CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC. Distinguished for leading the Indian 17th Infantry Division during almost the entire Burma Campaign. Major-general Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet KCB. East India Company Army officer and statesman. Colonel James Lennox Dawson VC. Recipient of the Victoria Cross Donald MacKintosh (VC). Recipient of the Victoria Cross Harry Ranken. Recipient of the Victoria Cross Sir John Snell. Royalist Soldier in the English Civil War. Founded the Snell Exhibition. Archibald Campbell Fraser of Lovat, 20th MacShimidh (chief) of Clan Fraser of Lovat. General Simon Fraser of Lovat, the 19th Chief of the Clan Fraser of Lovat. Air Marshal Stuart Atha, senior officer of the Royal Air Force. Wing Commander Hector Maclean, Battle of Britain fighter pilot. Politics John Crowley, Irish Sinn Féin politician and medical practitioner John Maclean, leading figure of the Red Clydeside era James Maxton, leader of the Independent Labour Party Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, dominant political leader in Scotland in the 18th century. William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister James Allison Glen, Canadian parliamentarian and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, last Lord High Commissioner before the Act of Union James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland and a representative peer for Scotland in the House of Lords. Conservative Party Eric Forth, MP Liam Fox, MP Tam Galbraith, long-time MP for Glasgow Hillhead whose death in 1982 led to the historic election of Roy Jenkins and formation of the new Social Democratic Party (UK) James Gray, MP John Lamont, MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk Bonar Law, Conservative Prime Minister Mark Menzies, MP Sir Teddy Taylor, MP Sir David Robertson, MP Labour Party Wendy Alexander, MSP John Baird, MP for Wolverhampton 1945-64 Sarah Boyack, MSP Des Browne QC, Secretary of State for Defence Margaret Curran, MSP Donald Dewar, former First Minister of Scotland Andrew Faulds, MP Sam Galbraith, former Minister (UK Government) Jim Gallagher, Head of Justice Department for the Scottish Executive Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg QC, former Lord Chancellor Thomas Johnston, former Secretary of State for Scotland Johann Lamont, MSP Anne McGuire, MP Bridget Prentice, MP Gordon Prentice, MP William Ross, Baron Ross of