Edith Macarthur obituary

Stage and screen actor who played Elizabeth Cunningham in the Scottish TV soap opera Take the High RoadEdith Macarthur, who has died aged 92, was one of the doyennes of Scottish theatre for half a century but known to audiences across Britain – and worldwide – for being in the original cast of Scotland’s most successful TV soap opera.She played Elizabeth Cunningham, the benevolent lady laird, in Take the High Road, set in the fictional village of Glendarroch, on the banks of Lo