Portal:Scotland/Did you know/35

• ... that Edinburgh University did not teach Scottish history until 1901, when a new professor, Peter Hume Brown (pictured), insisted that it was not revolutionary to study its national history?

• ... that Scottish international rugby player Tremayne Rodd was banned from playing amateur rugby union in 1966 after accompanying the British and Irish Lions?

• ... that David Colville Anderson, whose career was ended by a scandal involving teenage girls, blamed it on the KGB?

• ... that, according to the Lanercost Chronicle, Richard de Inverkeithing, Bishop of Dunkeld, was poisoned by King Alexander III of Scotland so that the king could take the bishop's movable possessions?