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HADDOCK 



Bridge. On July 22, 1680, he was 

 captured after a skirmish at Airds- 

 moss, Ayrshire, and executed at 

 Edinburgh on July 30. 



Hadad. Name of certain Edo- 

 mite kings or princes in the O.T. 

 (1) A king of Edom, who suc- 

 ceeded Husham and defeated the 

 Midianites (1 Chron. i, 46). (2) An 

 Edomite of royal blood, who was 

 taken to Egypt as a child to escape 

 massacre at the hands of Joab, 

 David's commander-in-chief, and 

 later married Pharaoh's sister-in- 

 law. At the death of David, he 

 returned to Edom and became a 

 troublesome enemy to Solomon 

 (1 Kings xi, 14). Hadad or Adad 

 was also the name of a Syrian deity. 



Haddington. Royal and mun. 

 burgh and the co. town of Had- 

 dingtonshire, Scotland. It stands 

 on the Tyne, 17 m. E. of Edin- 

 burgh on the N.B.R. The 13th 

 century church of S. Mary is sur- 

 mounted by a square tower, 90 ft. 

 high, and the choir contains the 

 tomb of Jane Welsh, the wife of 

 Thomas Carlvle. At one time a 



Haddington burgh arms 



royal residence, Haddington was 

 the birthplace of Alexander II, It 

 has one of the principal grain 

 markets in Scotland, and woollen, 

 agricultural implement, and other 

 manufactures. Market day, Fri. 

 Pop. (1921) 4,053. 



Haddington, EARL OF. Scottish 

 title borne since 1627 by the family 

 of Hamilton. Sir Thomas Hamil- 

 ton, who held a number of high 

 positions in Scotland under James 

 VI, including those of secretary of 

 state, keeper of the privy seal, and 

 president of the court of session, 

 was made a baron in 1616 and earl 

 of Melrose in 1619. In 1627 he 

 exchanged his title of Melrose- for 

 that of Haddington. His son, the 

 2nd earl, was a leading Covenanter. 



Charles, the 5th earl, married in 

 1674 Margaret Leslie, who became 

 countess of Rothes. By arrange- 

 ment her title passed to their 

 eldest son, while the second, 

 Thomas, became earl of Hadding- 

 ton. He was made hereditary 

 keeper of Holyrood, a position 

 which the 9th earl surrendered in 

 1843 in return for 40,000. This 9th 

 earl was made a peer of the United 

 Kingdom in 1827. He w#s lord-lieu- 

 tenant of Ireland, 1 833-34. He left 

 no sons, so his Scottish titles passed 



to a cousin, George Baillie, who 

 took the additional name of Hamil- 

 ton. In 1917 George, the llth earl, 

 died and was succeeded by his 

 grandson George as 12th earl. The 

 family seat is Tyninghame, Had- 

 dingtonshire, and the earl's eldest 

 son bears the courtesy title of 

 Lord Binning. 



Haddington, Scotland. The town viewed from the tower 

 of the United Free church 



Haddingtonshire OR EAST LO- 

 THIAN. S.E. maritime co. of Scot- 

 land. With about 40 m. of coast on 

 the Firth of Forth 

 and North Sea, its 

 area is 267 sq. m. 

 Along the S. 

 border are the 

 Lammerm uir 

 Hills (Lammer 

 Law, 1,733 ft.), 

 whence the sur- 

 face has 



coast; in a few 

 eminences occur 

 Garleton Hill 

 (590ft.),Traprain 

 Law (700 ft,), and 

 North Berwick 

 Law (612 ft.). 

 The Tyne, the 

 chief stream, 

 flows N.E. to the 



Haddingtonshire 



arms 



gradual slope to the 

 isolated 



Fletcher, is generally known as 

 Fletcher of Saltoun, and is widely 

 remembered for his saying that so 

 long as he might write the ballads 

 for a people he cared not who made 

 its laws. John Knox is believed to 

 have been born in the Gifford Gate 

 of Haddington, and was educated 

 in the grammar school of this 



town. At Had- 



] dington, too, Jane 

 1 Welsh Carlyle 

 '\ was born and is 

 g buried. John 

 Home, the author 

 of Douglas, lived 

 for several years 

 at the farm of 

 Kilduff, and a 

 statue to him 

 stands in front of 

 the Town Build- 

 ings of Hadding- 

 ton. At Gifford 

 was born John 

 Witherspoon, 

 1712-94, writer of 

 many works on theological and 

 other themes, and principal of 

 Princeton College, New Jersey. At 

 Ormiston is a granite obelisk to the 

 missionary Robert Moffat, who was 

 born there. The Bass Rock (q.v.) 

 was at one time the prison of Alex- 

 ander Peden, the Covenanter. There 

 is much in the work of Sir Walter 

 Scott concerning the county, not- 

 ably in The Bride of Lammermoor. 

 Haddock (Gadns aeglefinu*). 

 Common British fish of the same 

 genus as the cod, which it generally 



sea. 



Agriculture and 

 the pasturage of 

 sheep are actively 

 pursued, and 

 fishing and fish- 

 curing occupy a 

 number of the 

 inhabitants. The 

 Dunbar red lands 

 are an area of 

 exceptional fer- 

 tility. Large quantities of coal and 

 limestone are obtained, but manu- 

 factures are not extensively prose- 

 cuted. The N.B.R. serves the 

 county. Haddington (co. town), 

 Dunbar, and North Berwick are 

 the principal towns. Berwick and 

 Haddington return one member to 

 Parliament. Pop. (1921) 47,487. 



LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS. 

 Bishop Gilbert Burnet's first bene- 

 fice was Saltoun. His pupil, Andrew 



Haddingtonshire. Map of the maritime county in the 

 south-east of Scotland 



resembles. It may be distin- 

 guished by the black line running 

 along each side, and the black 

 patch on either side of the body. 



Haddock, a common British fish 



