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Map of Scotland showing the present-day committee area of Garioch

Garioch ( /ˈɡɪəri/ GEER-ee) is the name of one of six committee areas in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It has a population of 46,254 (2006 estimate).^[1]

The Shevack inscription stone at Newton.

Centred on Inverurie, a traditional rural market town whose foundation dates back to the 9th century with the establishment of Christianity at Polnar, "The Kirk of Rocharl" - now St Andrew's Parish Church, Inverurie, "The Auld Kirk of Inverurie", the Garioch has also experienced rapid population growth due to its proximity to the city of Aberdeen. Significant growth in population, services and employment is anticipated in the A96 corridor and in Westhill. The area is largely agricultural, but is strongly affected by Aberdeen's economy and the oil and gas sector. The Garioch holds growing potential for tourism, in its environment and archaeological heritage.

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v t e Settlements and places of interest in Garioch, Aberdeenshire Primary settlements Blackburn Insch Inverurie Kemnay Kintore Newmachar Westhill Other settlements Blairdaff Colpy Daviot Dunecht Echt Elrick Kinmuck Oyne Pitcaple Skene Places of interest Bennachie Castle Fraser Dunnideer Maiden Stone

v t e Areas and primary settlements in Aberdeenshire (see also: Aberdeen City) in Banff and Buchan Aberchirder Banff Fraserburgh Gardenstown Inverallochy and Cairnbulg Macduff Portsoy Rosehearty Sandhaven Whitehills in Buchan Boddam Crimond Cruden Bay Fetterangus Hatton Longside Maud Mintlaw New Deer New Pitsligo Peterhead St Combs St Fergus Strichen Stuartfield in Formartine Balmedie Cuminestown Ellon Fyvie Newburgh Oldmeldrum Pitmedden Potterton Rothienorman Tarves Turriff in Garioch Blackburn Insch Inverurie Kemnay Kintore Newmachar Westhill in Kincardine and Mearns Drumoak Fettercairn Gourdon Inverbervie Johnshaven Laurencekirk Newtonhill Portlethen St Cyrus Stonehaven in Marr Aboyne Alford Ballater Banchory Braemar Huntly Lumphanan Tarland Torphins

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Scott Donald

Personal information
Full name	Scott Albert Donald
Born	(1980-02-14) 14 February 1980 (age 32) Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	83 kg (13 st 1 lb)
Playing information
Position	Wing
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1998–2000	North Queensland Cowboys	4	1	0	0	4
2001–2002	Parramatta Eels	21	15	0	0	60
2003–2005	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	68	48	0	0	192
2006–	Leeds Rhinos	130	83	0	0	332
	Total	223	147	0	0	588
Source: Rugby League Project SL Stats

Scott Albert Donald (Born 14 February 1980 in Townsville, Queensland) is a retired Australian professional rugby league footballer and played for the Leeds Rhinos of the European Super League competition. He was known affectionately as 'Scotty D' by some fans.

Scott joined the Rhinos from Australian team Manly at the back end of 2005 as a replacement for outgoing winger Mark Calderwood and made a scoring debut for the Rhinos against Huddersfield Giants on 11 February 2006.

Towards the end of the 2006 season he built up a rapport with Clinton Toopi with the two of them linking up well together. That looks to have continued into this season with them both being at the centre of a number of attacking moves in pre-season.

He was the 3rd top try scoring winger in the league in 2006, with only St Helens' Ade Gardner and Catalans' Justin Murphy scoring more tries than he did.

Donald playing against Hull KR.

In the 2007 Super League season, He went on to score a total of 20 tries and has still to miss a match for the Leeds Rhinos on completing his third season. In September 2007, Donald was named in the Super League Dream Team. In October 2007, Donald scored a try in the Rhino's 33-6 victory over St Helens at Old Trafford in the Super League Grand Final.

He has been named in the Super League Dream Team for 2008's Super League XIII season.^[1]

He played in the 2008 Super League Grand Final victory over St Helens.^[2] He then retired in 2010 after the 2010 super league season.

Super League Record[link]

The table below shows a cumulative points and scoring records for Scott Donald at the end of the 2008 Super League season.

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External links[link]

• Leeds Rhinos profile

Robert Garioch Sutherland, (9 May 1909 – 26 April 1981), was a Scottish poet and translator. His poetry was written almost exclusively in the Scots language, he was a key member in the literary revival of the language in the mid-20th century. However, his biggest influences were the 18th century poet Robert Fergusson and the Italian dialect sonneteer Giuseppe Gioachino Belli.

Garioch was born in Edinburgh, the son of a decorator and a music teacher, and attended the Royal High School before going to the University of Edinburgh. He was conscripted into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1941, and married early the following year. However, whilst serving in Operation Torch in North Africa, Garioch was captured by German troops in November 1942 and spent the following three years as a Prisoner of War.

After Garioch returned to the United Kingdom in 1945 he became a teacher, a job he held until taking early retirement in 1964. Following his retirement he worked on a number of Scottish literary magazines, most notably Scottish International. He also spent a number of years in the 1970s as writer-in-residence at Edinburgh University.

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Experience as a POW had a significant impact on Garioch's career, and he provides a vivid account of those years in his autobiographical Two Men and a Blanket (1975). While interned in Italy, he learnt the language sufficiently well to read also authors who wrote in a variety of native dialects.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, Garioch wrote very little poetry concerning his war experiences. Instead he focussed primarily on social causes and the plight of the 'wee man', a fact that may account for his enduring popularity (particularly on the readings circuit). These facts, however, have distracted many critics from his extraordinary technical skill and the responsible scholarship of his handling of the Scots language, in which he surpasses all his contemporaries and even his great predecessor Hugh MacDiarmid (of whom he became critical). And there are weightier poems, such as 'The Wire', 'The Muir' or 'The Big Music', which entirely contradict the cosy persona which he sometimes adopted, and which is more often projected onto him. Aside from his original compositions, Garioch also translated a number of works by other poets into Scots. He translated a large number of poems from Roman dialect by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, who was a massive influence on his own poetry, as well as two plays by George Buchanan (which were originally written in Latin). He also rendered Pindar and Hesiod into Scots.

Robert Garioch is commemorated in Makars' Court, outside The Writers' Museum, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh.

Selections for Makars' Court are made by The Writers' Museum; The Saltire Society; The Scottish Poetry Library.

Works[link]

• Garioch, Robert and MacLean, Sorley Seventeen Poems for Sixpence (1940)
• Garioch Robert, Chuckies on a Cairn (1949)
• Garioch, Robert (1975). Two Men and a Blanket: Memoirs of Captivity. London, Southside, ISBN 0-900025-19-0.

References[link]

• Fulton, Robin (1986). A Garioch Miscellany. Edinburgh, MacDonald. ISBN 0-86334-057-1
• Lindsay, Maurice (ed.) (1979). As I Remember: ten Scottish authors recall how writing began for them. London, Hale, ISBN 0-7091-7321-0.