KIRKCALDY, SIR WILLIAM

KirxCaupy OF Granen (d. 1573), one of Scot. ‘Lords of the Congregation’; party to murder of Cardinal Beaton, 1546: led opposition to Mary, Queen of Scots; but upheld her cause after her imprisonment; executed. W.), town, Scotland; royal burgh since 1455; has ruined castle; finest harbor in $. Scotland. Pop. 1921, 2,101. 4’ W.), maritime county, S. W. Scotland, with rocky coast; surface hilly, rising in drained by Dee, Fleet, Ken, Urr; area, ¢. 900 sq. miles. Chief towns, Kirk Castle-Douglas. Great part of surface is under gra ; cattle, sheep, horses raised; -farming carried on; large quantities of granite quarried. Monastic ruins infrequently overrun by Danes and Saxons in X. and XI. cent’s, and in later times was scene of hostilities between Scots and English, and of private feuds between great Border families. Pop. 1921, 37,156. 44’ N,., 27° 14’ #.)3 is chief trading station between Constantinople and the Balkans; butter, cheese,wine, tobacco, and cereals. During Balkan War, after Bulgarians had driven Turks back from lines N. of Adrianople, Kirk-Kili eh was on extreme right of Turk. new line; captured by Bulgarians in Oct. 1912. After World War town was ceded to Greece, 1920, but was restored to Turkey in 1923. Pop. 1920, 16,263.