... Viscount Montgomery, Second World War general; 1925 Rock Hudson, US actor. . Deaths: 1558 Queen Mary Tudor; 1823 Thomas Erskine, Whig politician and Lord Chancellor; 1858 Robert Owen, social reformer and early trade unionist; 1917 Auguste Rodin, sculptor. ...

... Anniversaries Bitths: 1767 “Old Hickory” Andrew Jackson, 7th US President; 1779 Viscount Melbourne, Whig statesman and Prime Minister; 1904 George Brent, actor, 1916 Harry James, bandleader. Deaths: 459 Attila the Hun; 1898 Sir Henry Bessemer, metallurgist; ...

... cushions to ensure the pastry does not break. Food or the gods being eaten by chartered accountants and brokers. Ugh. These Whigs are everywhere now. ...

... McPherson said. *“Mr Freeman will be left in.no doubt of the strong feeling the Highland oommunig has for its rail network, whig ...

... HEBRIDES Review by James Robertson “HE'S a Whig, Sir; a sad dog. But he’s the best traveller I ever read; he observes more things than anyone else does.” Five years after completing his own tour of Scotland, this was Samuel Johnson’s verdict on Thomas ...

... I Wednesday 6 Ednburgh Afghan Whigs The Venue, Calton Road (031557 m' . . - - - N Ex-Sub Pop but with a penchant for soul covers (witness their Uptown Avondale ep), the- Whigs are may have seen previewed in this month's edition of The Face. lliness has ...

... Robert Donat, film actor. Deaths: 1584 Ivan the Terrible, first to assume title of Tsar; 1745 Sir Robert Walpole, _ British Whig statesman; 1768 Laurence Sterne, clergyman and novelist; 1965 King Farouk | of Egypt; 1983 King Umbertc of Italy; 1988 Percy ...

... SELKIRK Tales Of Whigs And Jacobites Bowhill Little Theatre, Bowhill House (01750-220732). The Rowan Tree Company in two gems of susperse and humour about Culloden: The Blacksmith's Tale and The Old Soldier's Tale, 20 & 21 Sept, 7.30 pm, £6 (concs £5 ...

... gathered to %t the new year. the possibility of even B = e apan m‘w millennium, seems organisers spread activities over a wh'ig e yedotias e 79 people were admitted to its accident and emergency depart- ...

... royal father’s auspicious reigns. This city has always distinguished herself by a firm and steady attachment to revolution and whig principles, and a hearty abhorrence of all popish and arbitrary governments; and in the mlfls. when a most unnatural rebellion ...

... expediency. 50 It ‘'was Bellomont, the governor. of Massachusetts; who had organised Kidd's commission, enlisting -the king and Whig peers as backers. They now deserted the Scot, who had inadvertently given. them an excuse to move against him, At sea, he had: ...

... sounded out a defiant Awa’ Whigs, Awa’in full sight - and range - of the Royalist army, was shot and rolled into the River Clyde, where his body “was carried peacefully down the stream among a great number of floating Whigs”. The backroom boys at BBC ...