Notable People
Several notable people were born in the town, including Mary Somerville (1780–1872), the eminent scientist and writer, after whom Somerville College, Oxford named.
Others include Conservative MP, Michael Ancram in 1945. James Thomson (1700–1748) who wrote "Rule Britannia" was born nearby, and educated in the town. David Brewster, physicist, mathematician, scientist, writer and inventor of the kaleidoscope was born in Jedburgh in 1781. Alexander Jeffrey (F.S.A. Scot.) worked as a solicitor in the town and was also the county historian. He died in Jedburgh in 1874. The authoress and broadcaster Lavinia Derwent was born in a farmhouse a few miles outside Jedburgh in 1909.
According to the Scottish Barony Register and Burke's Peerage, the feudal baronial title of Baron of Jedbugh Forest is held by The Much Hon Richard Bruce Bernadotte Miller, a South African whose ancestors originated form Roxburghshire.
The town's most famous rugby sons are the scrum-halves, Roy Laidlaw and Gary Armstrong. Douglas Young, fought at Heavyweight at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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