Balquhidder Bridge

Rob Roy Macgregor is often billed as the Scottish Robin Hood. He was a bit of a loveable outlaw who had a very mixed career. Unsurprisingly, he was "out" during the first Uprising. He was born in 1671 and died here at Balquhidder in 1734. In his later years he had tried to embrace respectability as a cattleman, but events moved against him and he was imprisoned. However, finally he was pardoned in 1727.

If Sir Walter Scott had not taken him on, made him over, and rather romanticised his story - would we ever have heard of him? Probably not - but it does remind us that celebrities were made by media rather than born in those days too.