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 | | During the Commonwealth, Scotland was under English military occupation and General George Monck was the Military Governor of Scotland. |
 | | The post lapsed with the resignation of the highly unpopular Lauderdale due to ill health in 1679, and on the 24 th of November 1679, James, Duke of Albany and York, the younger brother of Charles II and heir presumptive, was appointed the King's Viceroy of Scotland. |
 | | In 1984 Thatcher's Secretary of State for Scotland, George Younger, threatened to resign if Ravenscraig rolling mills were scrapped, and Ravenscraig survived, only to be closed in 1992. |
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