Raith, as an area of Fife, once stretched from the lands of Little Raith, south of Loch Gelly, as far as Kirkcaldy and the Battle of Raith was once theorised to have been fought here in 596 AD. Raith
Robert Ferguson of Raith, was at various times a Whig Member of Parliament for Fifeshire, Haddingtonshire and Kirkcaldy Burghs, and at the time of his death he was Lord Lieutenant of the county of Fif
Raith, Fife
…westwards. The modern housing estate bearing the Raith name dates from the latter part of the 20th century, long after the origins of the football team. Robert Ferguson of Raith Robert Munro Ferguson…
The Archers by Sir Henry Raeburn illustrates Robert with his brother Ronald