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  Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sutherland was born on November 19, 1915 in Burlingame, Kansas.
In 1963, desiring to limit his duties to research, Sutherland moved to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville where he was a professor of physiology until 1973.
At the time of his death in 1974, Sutherland was a distinguished professor of biochemistry at University of Miami Medical School.
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 Earl of Sutherland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The titles were held by several men, until the death of John de Moravia, 9th Earl of Sutherland, when the title passed to his sister Elizabeth as he had no children.
Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland married Adam Gordon, whose surname belonged to several of the next Earls of Sutherland.
The family seat is Dunrobin Castle, near Golspie in the traditional county of Sutherland in Scotland.
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 Clan SUTHERLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
William, second Earl of Sutherland, was the hero who overthrew a large force of invading Danes at the battle of Embo in 1259, himself slaying their leader with the leg of a horse, a circumstance commemorated in the name of Dornoch—a horse’s hoof, and by the Earl’s Cross which still stands on the spot.
This chief’s brother, Kenneth, the fourth Earl, married a daughter of the Earl of Mar, and fell at the disastrous battle of Halidon Hill in 1333.
Earl Robert was, in 1427, one of the hostages to England for the payment of the ransom of King James I. He married a daughter of the King’s cousin, the Earl of Buchan, and died at Dunrobin in 1442.
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 Earl Sutherland
Sutherland was born in Burlingame in 1915 and decided in high school to go into medical research after reading a book about Louis Pasteur.
Sutherland chose to follow his dream and enrolled in Washburn University in 1933, followed by medical school in St. Louis, and a stint as an Army medical officer in World War II.
Sutherland showed for the first time that hormones did not send their messages regarding digestive, reproductive, or metabolic functions directly to the target organs but, instead, they activated the cyclic AMP and it was that chemical that told the organs what to do.
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 EARLS AND DUKES OF SUTHERLAND - LoveToKnow Article on EARLS AND DUKES OF SUTHERLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This earls daughter Elizabeth (1765-1839) claimed the peerage, and although her title thereto was contested by Sir Robert Gordon, Bart., a descendant of the first Gordon earl, it was confirmed by the House of Lords in 1771.
Established in the possession of the title and the vast estates of the earidom, the countess of Sutherland was married in 1785 to George Granville Leveson-Gower (I 7581833), who succeeded his father as second marquess of Stafford in 1803.
She was mistress of the robes to the queen, whose refusal to part with her in 1839 led to a ministerial crisis.
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 Clan Sutherland Septs
In 1512, William of Clyne of that ilk witnessed a "seisen" of the Sutherland Earldom in favor of John, the son and heir of the John, the 8th Earl of Sutherland.
William Sutherland was killed by Clan Gunn at Thurso in 1530 by instigation of the Bishop of Caithness.
In 1257, Sir William Mowat was a signatory to an agreement whereby the William, the 2nd Earl of Sutherland granted the castle at Skibo to the Bishop of Caithness.
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 Sutherland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Relations with the Sinclairs of Caithness were also strained, and the 11th Earl of Sutherland and his wife died of poisoning, at the instigation of the Earl of Caithness.
The Sutherlands were staunch patriots and doughty fighters, but the original family and the earldom fell into the hands of the Gordons when in 1514, on the death of the 9th Earl, his sister succeeded to the title and married Adam Gordon, second son of the 2nd Earl of Huntly.
John Gordon (1525-67), 11th Earl of Sutherland, and his wife were poisoned at supper by a female cousin in the course of a family feud, though he was able to warn his heir, who had arrived late from hunting, that there was something wrong with the meal.
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Hereupon the Earls of Moray and Athole, the Dunbars, the Clan Chattan, the Grants, and the Laird of Calder, with all their faction, met at Forres to consult of their affairs, where they were all sworn in one league together, some of the Dunbars refusing to join with them.
The Earl of Huntly was charged by the Lord St. Colme (the late slain Earl of Moray's brother) to underly the censure of the law for the slaughter of Dunibristle.
All quarrels betwixt him and the Earls of Argyll and Moray were taken away by the marriage of Argyll's eldest daughter, to George, Lord Gordon, Huntly's eldest son, and by the marriage of Lady Anne Gordon, Huntly's daughter to James, Earl of Moray, son to him that was slain at Dunibristle.
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 Earls of Caithness and Sutherland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In the year 1583, Alexander, Earl of Sutherland, obtained from the Earl of Huntly a grant of the superiority of Strathnaver, and of the heritable sheriffship of Sutherland and Strathnaver, which last was granted in lieu of the lordship of Aboyne.
The Earl of Caithness, who felt an inward satisfaction at hearing of the displeasure of the Earl of Sutherland with George Gordon, dissembled his feelings, and pretended to listen with great favour to the request of Patrick Gordon, in order to throw George Gordon off his guard, while he was in reality meditating his destruction.
The Earl of Caithness in his turn assembled his whole forces, and, being joined by Mackay and the Stratlhnaver men, together with John, the Master of Orkney, and the Earl of Carrick, brother of Patrick, Earl of Orkney, and some of his countrymen, marched to Helmsdale to meet the Earl of Sutherland.
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 MyClan.com : Clan Sutherland : Clan History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sutherland was the ‘Sudrland’, or ‘Southland’, of the Norsemen who had by the tenth century conquered all of the islands of Scotland and much of the mainland as far south as Inverness.
John, the sixteenth Earl, resumed the ancient surname of Sutherland, and in 1715, was Lord Lieutenant for the north of Scotland, including the islands.
Her right as a woman to succeed was challenged by the nearest male heirs, George Sutherland of Forse and Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, a descendant of the second marriage of the twelfth Earl.
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 Conflicts of the Clans
The Earl of Ross made such diligence that he apprehended their captain, and imprisoned him at Dingwall, whihc so incensed the Highlanders, that they pursued the Earl of Ross's second son at Balnagown, took him and carried him along prisoner with them, thinking thereby to get their captain relieved.
The inhabitants of Sutherland and Strathnaver (in regard of Earl John's minority) did thus continually vex one another, until this Donald Mackay was apprehended and imprisoned in the Castle of Fowlis, in Ross, by commandment of the Queen Regent and the Governor, where he continued a good while in captivity.
Earl John invaded Strathnaver in all hostile manner, and beseiged the Castle of Borve, the principal fort of that country, which he took by force, and caused hang the Captain, then demolished the fort.
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 Caithness CWS - History - History of Caithness - Chapter 7 - Index
The Earl and Countess, with their son Alexander, were at the time passing a few days at a hunting lodge near the river of Helmsdale, the ruins of which are still to be seen.
By representing to the young Earl, who was still a minor, that his father-in-law had a design upon his life, and intended to make his son William Earl of Sutherland, they made him hurriedly quit Dunrobin, and fly to Strathbogie, that he might be under the protection of his relative, the Earl of Huntly.
When Earl George heard of the flight of his ward, and how it was caused by the malicious counsel and insinuations of the Murrays, his rage knew no bounds, and he resolved to inflict a signal chastisement on them and their adherents.
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 Proncy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
By 1275 the Earl of Sutherland claimed Proncy under the original grant and an agreed division was made between the eccesiastical and territorial dignatories.
Adam Gordon, Earl of Sutherland in 1525 gave to William Sutherland of Duffus, the lands and lordship of Proncy which were vacant by reason of the death of Hugh Sutherland without a male heir.
William Sutherland of Duffus and Skelbo held Proncy from his overlord the Earl in 1584 but in the same year he leased Proncy to John Chisholm of Achintreayrer (near Embo) which in 1224 had been given lthe land of the upkeep of the difnity of the Treasurer of St Gilbert's Cathedral Church in Dornoch.
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 Skelbo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In Sutherland, the homes of the 18th century lairds and tacksmen have been so completely rebuilt that they have kept only the old names; this house is the only one left to give any idea how primative was the accomodation required by a family once owning vast estates in the county.
In 1529 Skelbo passed from the Kynnards to the Sutherlands of Duffus, Kinsmen of the Earls of Sutherland.
That same year Skelbo was reinforced as a garrison of the Earl of Sutherland, whose army came from Skelbo and elsewhere to partake in the battle of Carbisdale which ended the fatal campaign of Montrose and its army marching south from caithness.
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 Caithness CWS - History - History of Caithness - Chapter 8 - Index
The Earl highly resented this indignity, and on his return to Caithness, finding that he was not likely to get any redress from the Earl of Sutherland, he resolved to take it at his own hands, and to visit the offender with condign punishment.
The Earl of Caithness and Berriedale were accompanied by Lord Gray, Sinclair of Roslin, the Laird of Cowdenknowes, a son of the sister of the Earl of Caithness, and his two brothers, Sir John Sinclair of Greenland, and James Sinclair of Murkle.
In 1767, after the death of William, Earl of Sutherland, Robert Gordon of Gordonstone, great-grandson of the family historian, and George Sutherland of Forse, presented separate petitions to the house of Lords anent their respective claims to the earldom of Sutherland.
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 Sutherland
The Duke was married to Lady Harriet Howard, daughter of the Earl of Carlisle Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria.
3rd Duke of Sutherland, born 1828, married to Anne Countess of Cromartie in the heritage of Clan MacKenzie.
Countess Elisabeth is Chief of the Clan Sutherland and married to Charles Janson
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 ANCIENT MURRAY GENEALOGY
The Earl married Margaret Stewart, daughter of Alexander, Earl of Buchan and is said to have died in 1442.
The Earl’s second wife was apparently Fingole, daughter of William of Calder, Thane of Cawdor, widow of John Monro of Fowlis, who died in or before 1591, a divorce between her and the Earl was being prepared in 1497-98 and he married thirdly Catherine, named Countess of Sutherland in 1509-12.
John son of John and ninth Earl of Sutherland, at an early age was taken with his father in the presence of King James IV in 1493 and succeeded in 1508 as ward of the Crown, the Earldom being administered by Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Caithness.
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 Sutherland, Earl Wilbur Jr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sutherland was born in Burlingame, Kansas, and studied at Washburn College, Topeka, and Washington University Medical School, St Louis.
Sutherland began studying hormones at Washington under biochemists Carl and Gerty Cori and then spent the 1950s doing research on his own.
Sutherland showed that the key to the process - the activating agent of the organ concerned - is cyclic adenosine 3,5 monophosphate (cyclic AMP).
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 The Battle of Altgawn, 1586
The marriage was outside the labyrinth of marriages and alliances which the fourth Earl of Caithness, the fifth Earls grandfather, bound the Sutherlands of Duffus, the MacKays of Strathnaver and the Gunns to the house of Caithness.
Alexander Sutherland of Duffus had wed Elizabeth Sinclair in 1568, his younger brother William married her younger sister Margaret in 1579, renewing the terms of the contract between their two families.
The Earls forces from Caithness were to invade from the east the uplands of Braemore, while the forces under the Earl of Sutherland were to advance from the south and west, ambushing the Gunns between them., it seems that The Earl of Caithness salved his conscience by warning the Gunns of the impending attack..
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 Sutherland: Clan Symbols   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The first chiefs to use the name Sutherland descended from the Flemish family Freskin that intermarried, during the twelfth century, with the royal house of Moray, a blend of early Picts and Scoti.
William of Sutherland, who was of the Moray line but took his surname from the land in which he lived, became the first Earl of Sutherland about 1235.
The 4th Earl, William, married Princess Margaret, eldest daughter of Robert the Bruce by his second wife, and his son John claimed the throne of Scotland and was even chosen by David II to be his heir in preference to Robert, son of the High Steward.
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 The Lasker Foundation | Former Award Winners, Basic Medical Research 1970, Obituary
Sutherland's fundamental contribution was to increase understanding of the subtly articulated mechanisms that regulate and control living organisms at the cellular level.
Born Nov 19, 1915 in Burlingame, Kan, Dr. Sutherland became interested in medicine in high school.
In 1953, Dr. Sutherland became director of medicine at the Case Western Reserve University.
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 Sutherland Lecture sheds light on body's molecular switches
It was Dr. Sutherland who discovered cyclic AMP and developed the hypothesis that a hormone operates as a "first messenger" and causes the cell to produce a "second messenger" like cyclic AMP to carry the signal forward.
Sutherland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1971 for his discoveries related to cellular signaling and hormone action.
Sutherland was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Alpha Omega Alpha, and the American Society of Biological Chemists.
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 Hamm appointed Sutherland Professor
An afternoon of lectures by eminent scientists in the field of cell signaling marked the inauguration of the Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
Earl Sutherland is really the founder of my field,” Hamm said.
Sutherland, professor of Physiology at Vanderbilt from 1963-1973, was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries related to cellular signaling and hormone action.
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 Earl W. Sutherland, Jr., 1915-1974
Earl Sutherland was born in Burlingame, Kansas on November 19, 1915.
He received his M.S. from Washington University, School of Medicine in St. Louis in 1942, where he became a well-known teacher and researcher in the areas of pharmacology and biochemistry.
Sutherland's impact was widely felt, with many Nobel laureates having either trained under his direction or with mentors who had.
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 Pharmacology: Case Western Reserve University
Sutherland's discovery offers some solace to those whose work areas are constantly cluttered.
Ferid Murad was pondering medical school when he learned of the M.D./Ph.D. program at WRU, and particularly the pharmacology program led by Dr. Sutherland, whose son he had known in college.
The reputation and research of Dr. Sutherland and his colleagues, who sought to understand the function of cyclic AMP, attracted Dr. Gilman to the WRU medical school.
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 Jean Gordon
This is probably because at the time of her second marriage to the Catholic Earl of Sutherland, she partook in Mass and was charged with harbouring Jesuits.
Her groom was Alexander, the twelfth Earl of Sutherland, with whom she had a family of five sons and two daughters.
Because the Earl of Sutherland was a sickly sort of person, she managed all his affairs, taking care of his house, family and business.
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 Scottish Clans - Clan SUTHERLAND
The Earldom of Sutherland is claimed to be the oldest in Britain, having been granted to William, Lord of Sutherland in around 1228 and the line remained unbroken until 1514.
The Sutherland clan derives its name from the territory known as Sudrland by the Norsemen who had conquered much of the Scottish mainland north of Inverness.
The first Duke of Sutherland was renowned for being a keen reformer and his ill-conceived “improvements” on his estate caused much misery and led to excessive clearance evictions.
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 William Murray bc1570
On Oct. 1, 1608, William Murray of Dornoch, Sutherland, ancestor of the 'Gobha' Murrays of the Isle of Lewis, and his two companions were "put to the horn".
Angus Moray led the Earl’s forces at the Battle of Drumnacoub and was killed.
Murrays of Aberscross: The Murrays of Aberscross may also be descendents of the Morays/Murrays of Culbin as in 1517, John Murray of Aberscross led the Earl of Sutherland forces.
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