Possible Clues:

• Historic Scottish region
• Reluctant Scotsman in Scottish region
• Where reluctant Scotsman lives?
• This endlessly contributes to finance for Scottish region
• Reluctant individual overlooking an area of Scotland
• Reluctant to join Scotsman in part of his country
• Hail not unusual in Scottish region
• Scott wrote of the beating core of its central point
• A former local government region in central Scotland
• Disinclined to have Scotsman in Edinburgh area