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	BUCHANAN
		Their eldest son John, born in 1758, succeeded to the estate of Bardowie, and assumed the additional name of Hamilton, but dying without male issue, was succeeded by his brother, the above named Dr. Francis Hamilton-Buchanan.
		The Buchanans of Ardinconnal and Anchintorlie, in the same county, are also a branch of the ancient house of Buchanan of that ilk and of Leny.
		He was descended from John Buchanan, eldest son of the second marriage of Thomas Buchanan of Carbeth, grandson of Thomas Buchanan, third son of Sir Walter Buchanan, thirteenth laird of Buchanan.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /Members/tom.paterson/surnames/SNbuch462.htm (424 words)

	National Review Online's Featured Article October 11, 1999 Issue
		In a March 1996 column, Samuel Francis wrote that he had been telling Buchanan for years that his "refusal to break even more definitely with a more conventional conservative identity and with the Republican Party.
		Buchanan is at war with the first two planks of this platform, and he is no longer reliable even on the moral issues, yielding as he has to other priorities.
		Buchanan's mentor, Richard Nixon, succeeded in winning over the same constituency — it was then known as the (George) Wallace vote — by exploiting its cultural grievances while tacking left on the size and role of government.
	www.nationalreview.com /11oct99/ponnuru101199.html (2013 words)

	BUCHANAN
		This line because, in its urn, extinct in 1816, and in the absence of other competitors, the late Dr. Francis Hamilton-Buchanan of Bardowie, Spittal, and Leny, as heir-male of Walter, first of the family of Spittal, established in 1826 his claims as chief of the clan.
		John Buchanan, above mentioned as dying before his father, George Buchanan of that ilk, was twice married, first to the Lord Livingston's daughter, by whom he had one son, George, who succeeded his grandfather, and secondly to a niece of Chisholm, bishop of Dunblane, and had by her a daughter married to Mr.
		The elder son, George Buchanan of that ilk, succeeded his grandfather, and was sheriff of Dumbartonslrire at the critical epoch of 1561.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /members/tom.paterson/surnames/SNbuch461.htm (790 words)

	BUCHANAN
		BUCHANAN Clarinch, an island in Loch Lomond, opposite Balmaha, was granted in 1225 by the Early of Lennox, to Absolon or Anselan, son of MacBeth.
		George Buchanan (1506-82) was a Latin Scholar of European fame, and James Buchanan (1791-1868), fifteenth president of the United States was of Scottish ancestry.
		Alan de Buchanan was one of the witnesses to a charter of lands of Gartechonerane to Malcolm Macedolf c.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /members/tom.paterson/surnames/nbuchanan.htm (1135 words)

	Grover
		Francis Hamilton Buchanan, the British administrator who undertook the survey of India (1807-14), surveyed Ayodhya (1813-14) as a part of the survey of Gorakhpur district was the first person to have noted the inscriptions, both in Persian and Arabic, on the walls of the disputed structure of Janmasthan 'Baburi Masjid' (69).
		Buchanan equally confirmed that there was another Persian inscription on the wall which clearly stated that the structure was constructed by Mir Baqi in 1528-29 AD on the basis of Babur's orders.
		Buchanan also emphasised the Persian inscription which states that on the order of Babur, this structure was erected by Mir Baqi in the year AH 935/1528-29 AD.
	www.wac.uct.ac.za /croatia/grover.htm (9649 words)

	Old country houses of old Glasgow gentry: VII. BARDOWIE. [ebook chapter] / John Guthrie Smith and John Oswald Mitchell, 1878
		THE property of John Buchanan Hamilton of Spittal Leny and Bardowie, is situated in the parish of Baldernock and county of Stirling on the margin of' the loch of Bardowie, and about six miles from Glasgow.
		(2) He established his claim to be Chief of the Clan Buchanan, (3) and thus his son, John Buchanan Hamilton, who succeeded to the estates on his death, is both Buchanan of that Ilk, and head of the ancient family of Bardowie.
		The ancestor of the family of Hamilton of Bardowie seems to have been Hamilton, fifth son of David Hamilton, Lord of Cadzow, and Janet Keith his wife, heiress through her mother of the Galbraiths.
	gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk /smihou/smihou007.htm (451 words)

	The Tiger and The Thistle - Tipu Sultan and the Scots in India
		The bound volume of notes was returned to was returned to Francis Buchanan at Seringapatam on 23 May 1800, during his survey of Mysore after Tipu's death.
		Buchanan's friend, one Mr Boiswell, accidently left the notes in his trunk, which was seized during action against Tipu at Satimungulum, during the Second Mysore War.
		Tipu was interested in botany and horticulture, and may have recognised from the diagrams in the manuscript that the notes referred to the way in which plants breathe.
	www.natgalscot.ac.uk /tipu/tipu37.htm (451 words)

	§1. Early historians. X. Anglo-Indian Literature. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
		Charles Hamilton, who wrote a history of those Rohilla Afghans whose expulsion from Rohilcand brought much odium upon Warren Hastings; James Rennell, the father of Indian geography, who wrote after his retirement in 1777; and William Bolts and Henry Verelst, whose quarrels in India resulted in the production of polemical history by them both.
		Alexander Hamilton, who was in the east from 1688 to 1723, wrote A New Account of the East Indies, but his book, though comprehensive, is rather rambling and commonplace.
		Sir Richard Francis Burton was in India during this period, but his fame cannot be said to be specially Anglo-Indian.
	www.bartleby.com /224/1001.html (1940 words)

	South Asia Book Resources Page 3
		Buchanan, Francis (Hamilton) An Account Of The Kingdom Of Nepal And Of The Territories Annexed To This Dominion By The House Of Gorkha Untill The Year 1814.
		Buchanan, Francis Journal Of Francis Buchanan Kept During The Survey Of The District Of Patna & Gaya In 1811-1812 22 Cm, 282p, 5 Maps & 2 Plates (Reprint Patna 1925 Edn.) 1989, ISBN 8120604598
		Buchanan, Francis A Journey From Madras Through The Countries Of Mysore, Canara And Malabar.
	educa0.tripod.com /aes003 (1710 words)

	Colisa lalia
		Francis Day(1889)describes C. lalia as: "This lovely little fish is the most beautiful amongst the numerous species of freshwater fishes I have ever seen".
		In India and Indonesia the fish are also kept as showfish because of their beauty, which may explain why the fish occurs in India, and on Borneo.
	aquaworld.netfirms.com /Labyrinthfish/Colisa/colisa_lalia.htm (406 words)

	Planet Catfish Forums - View topic - Hamilton, F., <An Account of the Fishes of the Ganges>
		Francis Hamilton was a young doctor who spent 21 years from 1794 to 1815 in Bengal with the East India Company.
		Although not an ichthyologist by training, Hamilton's described several hundred species, 163 of which are recognized as valid today (according to Eschmeyer).
		Shortly after he arrived, he was dispatched by the Company to undertake a comprehensive survey of the history, culture, languages, flora and fauna of Bengal, a task on which he labored for the next 15 years.
	www.planetcatfish.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=1380 (492 words)

	DOES CONSERVATISM HAVE A FUTURE? by Samuel Francis
		Brooks, like Buchanan, is probably right that the old conservatism is defunct, and maybe he's right it can't be brought back to life.
		It was the party of Lincoln, and thus of Hamilton.
		Buchanan, however, believes the right—and with it the GOP—should resurrect something like old conservatism.
	www.chroniclesmagazine.org /News/Francis/NewsSF091404.html (786 words)

	Redins Antikvariat - Tibet and Neighbours.
		Hamilton, Francis Buchanan, AN ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM OF NEPAL and of the Territories Annexed to This Dominion by the House of Gorkha.
	www.redins.se /tib.html (565 words)

	AHA Information: Louise A. Tilly Presidential Address (1993)
		Francis Hamilton Buchanan’s report of his travels in northern India and Bengal, from 1808 to 1815, describesthe parlous condition of women spinners in the early period of English competition.
	www.historians.org /info/AHA_History/latilly.htm (9010 words)

	The Indian Domesday Book and Sir WW Hunter by Kumud Ranjan Biswas
		An idea of how thorough it was to be can be gained from the instruction which was issued in 1807 to Dr. Francis Buchanan-Hamilton who was entrusted with the survey.
		He praises it for its employment of geographers and surveying pilots who were provided with necessary astronomical instruments and its “holding out of encouragement to such as should use them”.
		It was not to be merely an overview but a thorough survey in the strictest sense of the term.
	www.indianest.com /society/0041.htm (3791 words)

	murray.html
		Edward Murray-Buchanan of Leny, Perthshire D.L. 1935, Capt. Black Watch served in World war 1 1914-1919, assumed the additional surname of BUCHANAN, on succeeding to the estates of Spittal (which he disposed of) and Leny by the will of his cousin John Hamilton-Buchanan.
		Edward Murray-Buchanan was born 3 June 1874 educated Rugby and Oriel College Oxford B.A. He married 9 October 1913 Jean Isabella Shaw youngest daughter of James Carmichael of Arthurstone Perthshire.
		Euphemia Cecilia- b 1915 - m 24 April 1940 Major Francis William Murray Clark, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, of Ulva Argylshire, only son of F.W. Clark The couple have issue.
	www.esd.co.nz /buchanan/body/murray.html (186 words)

	Dramatis Personae
		Buchanan.) This led directly to the missions of Captain Latter and David Scott.
		Furthermore, Buchanan suggested that upsetting the Chinese could be avoided if the British did not annex Nepal, but rather just punished the Gurkhas, and restored the Newar chiefs (who the Gurkhas had deposed) back to power.
		He was accompanied on his trip by Alexander Hamilton.
	www.billbuxton.com /dramatis.html (13527 words)

	Untitled Document
		BUCHANAN [elsewhere HAMILTON], Francis (undated) An Account of the Districts of Bihar and Patna in 1811-1812.
		EWENS, George Francis William (1903) An account of a race of idiots found in the Punjab, commonly known as "Shah Daula's Mice." IMG 38: 330-34.
		R Chalmers, WHD Rouse, HT Francis, RA Neil, EB Cowell.
	cirrie.buffalo.edu /bibliography/AfgPak4.html (8498 words)

	Kailash : Short Reviews
		With reference to the history of the valley and to the ethnology of the country, Hamilton's work is now out of date.
		Hamilton's work stands out as the best of the early accounts.
		He visited the territories to the south of Nepal, although lie was unfortunately never able to enter the western parts of the kingdom itself.
	www.thdl.org /texts/reprints/kailash/1_1_reviews.html (3980 words)

	Names on Buchanan memorial stones
		John Hamilton Buchanan of Leny 14/7/1861 – 14/1/1919 (grandson of Francis Hamilton Buchanan)
		Thomas took for his second wife Elizabeth Hamilton of Bardowie, thus adding the estates of Bardowie to the title.
		(Note 1.) (Brother of John Buchanan [dec’d] who was heir to title from his father Thomas Buchanan who had married Catherine Buchanan, daughter to last lineal heir to the title – Henry Buchanan, D1723.
	www.incallander.co.uk /lhbg.htm (181 words)

	University of Glasgow :: Avenue :: Issue 36 :: Glasgow looks east: the Asian connections
		Former students also entered medical and religious service for the Company, as well as the Army and Navy: Francis Buchanan Hamilton (MA 1779), who served in the Navy and became a surgeon in the Bengal Army, published a book on the flowers of Nepal and three volumes on his journeys through India.
		Claudius Buchanan (1766-1815), was an English divine, educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge.
		Buchanan did much to advance native education in India, particularly by organising systematic translations of the Scriptures.
	www.gla.ac.uk:443 /avenue/story.cfm?id=54&category=feature (3856 words)

	Freshwater Fishes of Iran, Introduction - History of Research
		Francis Day (1829-1889), Inspector-General of Fisheries in India and Burma, was the leading nineteenth century ichthyologist of the Indian subcontinent, attaining this position from his initial career as a medical officer with the Madras establishment of the East India Company when fishes were but a hobby.
		His numerous studies have some items of relevance to Iran and his 1875-1878 monograph "The Fishes of India" with its 1888 Supplement and the two-volume "Fishes" in the Fauna of British India series contain useful data and descriptions of over 1400 species.
	www.briancoad.com /Introduction/history.htm (5502 words)

	SHR 1,1904-25, 1928
		A.W. Francis Hamilton of Silvertonhill, in: SHR 6, 1909, p.
		J.R.N. Hamilton of Kincavil and the General Assembly of 1563, in: SHR 10, 1913, p.
		J.H. An unrecorded portrait of George Buchanan, in: SHR 23, 1926, p.
	www.erlangerhistorikerseite.de /zfhm/shr3.html (8956 words)

	LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Fr'
		Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
		F > Fr Listed below are all articles that begin with Fr.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /f/fr (63 words)

	Scottish Surnames
		Local: from the parish of Buchanan in Stirlingshire.
		The family are descended from Macoum de Boquhanan, whose name is on the Ragman's Roll, 1296.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /scottish-surnames-b.htm (2585 words)

	Finlay mss.
		Reid, Robert Reiss, Alan Riddell, Ann Ridley, Bridget Riley, Francis Warren Roberts, John Roberts, Lewis Findlay Robertson, Duncan Robinson, Pamela Robinson, William T. Rodgers, Herbert M. Rosenthal, Macha Louis Rosenthal, Ian G.
		Writings by Ian Hamilton Finlay include both his literary efforts and instructions for his creative works as well as photographs of some of them.
		), a poetry periodical edited by Ian Hamilton Finlay for several years which provided an opportunity for collaboration by artist and poet.
	www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/finlay.html (625 words)

	Online Burma Library > Main Library > History > Arakanese history
		Editor’s note: This article by Francis Hamilton, also known as Francis Buchanan, first appeared in The Edinburgh Journal of Science (vol.
		Despite its relatively late dating, Hamilton’s understanding of the area and the people were not substantially different from those found in the his earlier diaries during his travels in the area in 1798.
		M.W. "...The river called Naaf by Europeans, which enters the sea in about 20º 50’ north, for a short way forms the boundary between Ava and Bengal; and across it is the only communication known between the kingdom of Arakan subject to Ava and Chatigang subject to Britain.
	www.burmalibrary.org /show.php?cat=619 (598 words)

	The National Archives National Register of Archives Browse the combined corporate and business indexes
		Buchanan, Francis Hamilton (1762-1829) Surgeon and Botanist (9)
		Buchanan, Robert (1802-1875) Free Church of Scotland Minister Historian (4)
		Buchanan, Sir George William (1854-1924) Knight Diplomat (7)
	www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nra/browser/person/page/person_BU.htm (2039 words)

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