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April 14 in Scottish History

On 14 April 2001, Jim Baxter, the noted Scottish footballer, died. 'Slim Jim' Baxter was regarded as one of the finest wing-halves in Europe in the early 1960s, making 254 appearances for Glasgow Rangers, and scoring 24 goals. He won 34 caps for his country, and represented the Rest of the World in a 1963 match to celebrate the centenary of the Football Association.

On 14 April 1578, James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, died at Dragsholm Castle in Denmark. He had been a prisoner since 1567 and is thought to have gone mad. Bothwell, a wild adventurer, was almost certainly behind the murder of Henry, Lord Darnley, Mary's second husband. After Mary lost the Scottish throne, Bothwell fled to Denmark where he was treated with the respect due to the consort of foreign monarch. However, once it became clear that Mary's cause was doomed, Bothwell was imprisoned. His body is preserved in Faarevejle Church.

On this day in 1999, Scottish broadcaster, Eileen Mitchell, died. Mitchell was the woman whose voice was known to millions through the phrase, "Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin". She presented BBC Radio's daily children's series, 'Listen with Mother', and also sang many of the nursery rhymes in the programme on which she appeared for about 15 years. When the programme spawned BBC TV's "Watch With Mother", she supplied one of the voices in 'The Woodentops'.