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    SCOTS IN ARGENTINA



    History of the community


    Since 1806 the Scots are part of our history and left several traces in it: the introduction of the Aberdeen Angus breed; the arrival of soccer in our country and the first Argentine doctor Cecilia Grierson whose origins belonged to this community.
    It is often said in a generic way that football came to our country from the hand of the English or, more generically, the British. In reality, football came to Argentina thanks to the Scotsman Alejandro Watson Hutton. But it was not an isolated initiative of a sports promoter, but rather has to do with the influence of the San Andrés school, of Scottish origin, on culture during the 19th and 20th centuries.

    The first officially registered arrival of a contingent dates from 1806, when David Spalding and John Carter, the first two Scottish immigrants to Argentina, arrived. From the national registries it is possible to estimate that by 1822 the community had approximately 1,200 members. It is even known that on November 30, 1824, Saint Andrew's Day was celebrated.

    That same year, the Immigration Commission set out to carry out John Thomas Barber Beaumont's idea of establishing a British colony. The following year the Simmetry arrived at the port of Buenos Aires, a ship from Edinburgh with 220 Scots on board brought by the expectation of founding a town. But the project did not materialize and these settlers were forced to look for another alternative.


    As a result, the majority settled in the Robertson family ranches in Monte Grande. Many who are no longer remembered this time as the most remarkable of the Scottish community. However, the colonies of brothers John and William Parish Robertson did not last for many years, and in 1829 the colonists were adrift. A small part settled in Chascomús, while the great majority returned to the Capital, where they founded the first bases of the Scottish community of Buenos Aires. Although there is no particularly Scottish neighborhood, we can note its influence in the Belgrano area.


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    Scottih Population Worldwide.


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    Lol pensé que decía "Scorts" jaja xd

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    Argentine Tartan



    Designed by the St Andrew's Society of the River Plate for Scots living in Argentina. Designed on 28th June 1995 by the cultural sub-committee of the St Andrews Society of the River Plate, formed by Pamela Johnston Dickin (descendant of the first settlers) and Edward Macrae, President of the Society in 1994-1997. It is based on the sett of the Robertson tartan honouring John and William Robertson, two Scotsmen from Kelso. 220 Scottish emigrants left the port of Leith on board the 'Symmetry' and arrived in Buenos Aires on 8 August 8 1825, settling on a ranch 20 miles south-west of the city in the area of Monte Grande and called 'Santa Catalina. Colours: the tartan combines the colours of the Argentine and Scottish flags, showing the amalgamation of the two cultures; blue, navy blue and white are part of the iconography used in sports and national symbols typically representing Argentina.






    The Entre Rios Province District Tartan was designed by Edward Macrae in 2007 and is based in the sett of the Graham of Menteith tartan where the blue was changed into red and the central black stripe into white. The colours of the tartan reproduce the Shield of Entre Rios province and the central white line a silver star with five points, the principal symbol in the shield representing peace and clemency. Red represents the federal system of government and green, hope and the fields of the province. Robert Cunninghame Graham, Laird of Gartmore, born in 1852, came to the province of Entre Rios in 1870 to farm. In 1878 he went back to Britain and became a well known writer, traveller and Member of Parliament. He was the founder and first president of the Scottish National Party in 1934 and always remembered his young years of gaucho life in the pampas.

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    My dad has cousins in Argentina and my uncle was in Buenos Aires last winter for a visit. It's a long story, they don't even speak English.

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    Roberto M. Levingston



    Roberto Marcelo Levingston Laborda (January 10, 1920 – June 17, 2015) was an Argentine Army general who was President of Argentina from June 18, 1970 to March 22, 1971, during the Revolución Argentina period in Argentine history.

    Levingston was born in San Luis Province, and graduated from the Colegio Militar de la Nación in 1941.
    His military expertise included intelligence and counterinsurgency, and he took the presidency of Argentina in a military coup that deposed Juan Carlos Onganía over his ineffective response to the Montoneros and other guerillas. His regime was marked by a protectionist economic policy that did little to overcome the inflation and recession that the country was undergoing at the time, and by the imposition of the death penalty against terrorists and kidnappers.[5] In response to renewed anti-government rioting in Córdoba and to the labor crisis under his leadership, he was deposed by another military junta led by Alejandro Lanusse.

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    Cecilia Grierson


    Cecilia Grierson (22 November 1859 – 10 April 1934) was an Argentine physician, reformer, and prominent Freethinker. She had the added distinction of being the first woman to receive a Medical Degree in Argentina.

    Cecilia Grierson was born in Buenos Aires in 1859 to Jane Duffy, an Irish Argentine woman, and John Parish Robertson Grierson. Her paternal grandfather, William Grierson, was among the Scottish colonists who had arrived in Buenos Aires in 1825 to settle Santa Catalina-Monte Grande.

    Grierson spent her early childhood on her family’s estancia in Entre Ríos Province, where her family were prosperous farmers. At the age of six she was sent to attend English and French schools in Buenos Aires, but had to return home on the early death of her father. She assisted her mother in managing a country school, and eventually taught there. Grierson returned to Buenos Aires to enroll at the Nº 1 Girls Normal School, where she graduated as a teacher in 1878. She taught for a number of years at a nearby boys’ school, and decided to study medicine.

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    Alexander Watson Hutton , Father of the Argentine Football



    Alexander Watson Hutton (10 June 1853 – 9 March 1936) was a Scottish teacher and sportsman who is considered "The Father of Argentine football". In 1893 he founded the "Argentine Association Football League" (current Argentine Football Association). He also founded the Buenos Aires English High School and football club Alumni, which was the most successful Argentine team with 22 titles won until its dissolution in 1911.

    Watson Hutton was born in the Gorbals, in Glasgow, in 1853. He was educated at Daniel Stewart's School (now Stewart's Melville College) in Edinburgh and following this he graduated from Edinburgh University and emigrated to Argentina in 1882. He worked at St Andrew's Scots School for two years. He was a keen sportsman and believed that sports were of fundamental importance in education. On 4 February 1884 he founded the Buenos Aires English High School, where he continued to instruct the pupils in the game. In 1891 the Association Argentine Football League was established by Alex Lamont of St. Andrew's Scots School, being the first football league outside of the British Isles. Five clubs competed but only one season was ever played.
    In 1891 Alec Lamont, headteacher St Andrew's founded the "Argentine Association Football League" the first Argentine league, which was won by a team of Scots from St Andrew's. The five team league only lasted one season but it is officially recognised by the Argentine Association as the first football league in the country.

    On 21 February 1893 Watson Hutton, along with representatives from Quilmes, Old Caledonian's, St. Andrew's, BA English High School, Lomas and Flores clubs, established the "Argentine Association Football League",[1][2][10] and restarted the organization of tournaments after the 1892 hiatus. In 1898 his school formed a football team which went on to become the most decorated team of Argentine football by then, winning a total of 22 titles (15 domestic and 7 international championships) until its dissolution in 1911. The club, originally named the same as the school, changed to "Alumni Athletic Club" due to new rules by the Association. Alumni also provided many players for the Argentina national football team including his son Arnold Watson Hutton and captain Juan Brown.
    In 1911 he retired and his club was disbanded. Watson Hutton died on 9 March 1936 in Buenos Aires and is buried in Cementerio Británico. The AFA library is named in his honour.




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