51�Թ�

But it remained in the US for more than 30 years until it was offered to an archaeologist who was curating an exhibition about the wreck of the Lady Elgin.

Ingram was recognised for his role in bringing fresh water, gas and the railways to the town, but died during a trip to the US in 1860 when the steamship Lady Elgin sank on Lake Michigan.

They said the watch had belonged to Ingram and offered it to her for an exhibition about the Lady Elgin.

"Growing up in south-east London, playing football in cages was a social thing with our mates," Dajon Golding, a school friend of Eze's and now a striker at Scottish League Two side Elgin City, says.

Police were called to a crash between a car and a lorry near Huntly on the A96 Aberdeen to Elgin road at about 11:00 on Wednesday.