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  ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
In November of 1292, the decision was made by the English royal council and accepted by the Scots.
John Balliol, a man with important holdings on both sides of the border, was named king.
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www.the-orb.net /textbooks/muhlberger/early_edi.html   (2343 words)

  
 A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union --index--
Rodney Leach is a financial strategist with Jardine Matheson, an adviser to the Republic National Bank of New York Group, a Member of the British Library Board and Chairman of the Portland Club, the ultimate arbiter of the world's rubber bridge game.
He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained a Double First.
After a brief spell as an academic teaching classics, he turned investment banker, becoming one of the few non-family partners of N M Rothschild & Sons.
www.euro-know.org /dictionary   (202 words)

  
 Adam Smith, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
There his widowed mother raised him until he entered the University of Glasgow at age fourteen, as was the usual practice, on scholarship.
He later attended Balliol College at Oxford, graduating with an extensive knowledge of European literature and an enduring contempt for English schools.
He returned home, and after delivering a series of well-received lectures, was made first chair of logic (1751), then chair of moral philosophy (1752), at Glasgow University.
www.econlib.org /library/Enc/bios/Smith.html   (1791 words)

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