Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, led a brigade of Commandos onto the beach on D-Day and was “fearless” in the face of Operation Overlord. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman ...

Brigadier Lord Lovat, tall, tough, handsome leader of British Commando troops, was back in England last week, a bit bunged up from the Normandy fighting, and correspondents at last could tell the ...

A letter written by Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, in prison shortly before he was beheaded on Tower Hill, Edinburgh, for his participation in the rising of 1745, fetched $18 fit a sale of an ...

Russell Crowe’s ancestor Simon, Lord Lovat got the axe. The Scottish Jacobite was the last person to be beheaded in England, in 1747 — and the Oscar winner, 59, is apparently his descendant.

THE death of Lord Lovat on February 18 will prove a great loss to forestry both in Great Britain and throughout the Empire. To his strong personality, tireless energy and great grasp of detail ...