Possible Clues:

• Briton most improperly appearing in survey
• 'Billy Connolly or Sean Connery, say (8)'
• Glaswegian, possibly, most involved in survey
• Northerner once seen flying along the track?
• Hastily read about most unusual neighbour of ours
• Arthur Conan Doyle, e.g
• Eg Glaswegian sergeant-major on bed in hospital
• One such as Wallace beds maiden in convalescent home
• Jock
• Burns, for example, most dreadfully apparent in examination