The man from Moray

I WOULD have hoped that someone with the very northern name Ron McKay would have known that the person he referred to in the poem (Diary, April 11) is the Bonnie Earl O’Moray, the north-east shire, not a Glaswegian Earlamurray, or even from the Murray lands in southern Perthshire as he was a Stewart. Mind you, I used to think another part of the poem said “lang may his lady look, oot frae the Castle doon” when it is Doune Castle near Stirling that is meant. So, being half a Murray, it’s honours even.

David Fyfe, Arbroath.