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... Whig waggery - SYDNEY-SMITH PETER VIRGIN £22.50. HARPERCOLLINS J B Pick and a grotesquely unsuccessful speculator, who all his life pleaded poverty, yet not only managed to send his sons to these establishments, but died worth £40,000 at mid-19th century ...
... already divided, his eldest brother being the dispossessed Jacobite &kke of Atholl, and his next one the Whig e. But there were equally devoted Whigs. In his Reminiscences, Carlyle tells of his grandfather’s friend and cousin, Adam Carlyle of Bridekirk ...
... BT 27 JULY 1689: Battle of Killiecrankie, in which . Williamite forces, under the Whig General Mackay, - were routed tg‘ the Jacobites led by John of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, who received fatal injuries. 1694: The Bank of England ...
... Sutcliffe, Yorkshire and England cricketer. Deaths: 1572 John Knox, founder of Scottish Presbyterianism; 1848 Lord Melbourne, twice Whig Prime Minister; 1916 Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of automatic machine gun; 1991 Freddie Mercury, rock singer. ...
... 1887 Viscount Montgomery, Second World War general; 1925 Rock Hudson, actor. Deaths: 1558 Mary Tudor; 1823 Thomas Erskine, Whig foliu'cian and Lord Chancelor; 1858 Robert Owen, social reformer; 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; ...
... controlled from three centres at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Hamilton, but these are to be replaced by a distribution t centre (&MC), whi(.:g will be based at Hamilton. Bill Landels, . the managing director of Scottish Power’s distribution and supply division, said ...
... American assassin. Deaths: 1417 Pope Grefory XII; 1503 Pope Pius 1II; 1541 Margaret, Queen of Scotland; 1865 Lord Palmerston, Whig statesman and twice Prime Minister; 1871 Charles Babbage, mathematician and computer inventor; 1893 Charles gounod, composer; ...
... N Offers Over £39,000 W 2 ] Spacious, bright 2nd flat in & et ) N need of complete upgrade [ 05\“0“ ; & modernisation, whig Sc\ “O would provide 3 Ffi“ R \2 roomy ho! OF L B il & = jocation. L ‘,6- . . sunny kitchel ngroom ) (large recess off), 2 good ...
... landscape that Hume did not sketch first. He wrote so lucidly. He does not contrive problems. He solves them and with a smile. Whig of Whigs. Hume was so jolly a figure that it is rare to hear him grump but he felt a pang of regret at how Scotland treated her ...
... factors of sun, win! and visibility,. T hic : 3 : ~ This post is set up in a thick wood I strategically near tge bases from whig.m mighty assault fleets launched their attack across the Channel. N . ...
... Graces, Canova’s neo-Hellenistic sublime, visible and tangible expression of Grace will stand at the epicentre of the Capital Whig politician who gave great support for Prime Minister Pitt in his war policy. Campbell, who lived at Stackpole Court in Pem ...