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  James Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Gray Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn CH MVO MC PC (9 February 1897 - 20 February 1971) was a Scottish Tory politician.
Born in Edinburgh, Stuart was the son of Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray, and Edith Douglas Palmer.
On 20 November 1959 he was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Stuart of Findhorn, of Findhorn in the County of Moray.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Stuart,_1st_Viscount_Stuart_of_Findhorn   (250 words)

  
 James Stuart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), "the Old Pretender", claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland
James Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn (1897-1971), Conservative Party politician and Secretary of State for Scotland
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (1501 creation)(c.1499-1544)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Stuart   (179 words)

  
 The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (Ja-Ji)
James Francis Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) was a reputed son of James II and pretender to the English throne.
James V was King of Scotland from 1513 to 1542.
James VI was King of Scotland from 1567 to 1625.
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 James Ewell Brown Stuart (1833-1864)
Stuart was a cavalry commander known for his dashing image (red-lined gray cape, hat cocked to the side with a peacock feather, red flower in his lapel, often sporting cologne) and his audacious tactics.
James Ewell Brown Stuart was born at Laurel Hill, a plantation in Patrick County, Virginia on the dividing line between the piedmont and the mountains and within sight of the boundary line of North Carolina and Virginia.
His father, Archibald Stuart, was a prominent politician and attorney and represented Patrick County in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly and served one term in the United States House of Representatives.
www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/stuart.html   (1246 words)

  
 boys clothing: British royalty: James II
James II was the second surviving son of Charles I. His father had been executed by Cromwell, but he and his elder brother Charles fled to France for saftey.
James was the third and second eldest surviving son of Charles I and the French Bouborn Princess Henrietta Maria.
James II was succeeded by his son, James Edward Stuart or Janes III and VIII, who in turn was succeeded by his sons, Charles III and Henry IX and I. At this time we have little information about James III, other than his birth precipitated his father's removal as king.
histclo.com /royal/eng/royal-ukj2.htm   (2029 words)

  
 Clifton B. Worthen-James Fergus Collection, 1884-1955 (Collection 913)
James Fergus was born October 8, 1813 at Lanarkshire, Scotland.
James Fergus was involved with the vigilante activity of 1884 in central Montana and served as a delegate to the constitutional convention of the same year.
The letters mostly pertain to James Fergus and his early life in Minnesota, his trip to the gold fields of Montana Territory, his family's subsequent move to join him, and the establishment of their ranch in what would become Fergus County, Montana.
www.lib.montana.edu /collect/spcoll/findaid/0913.html   (2427 words)

  
 The Glorious Revolution of 1688
Phillip Aubrey, The Defeat of James Stuart's Armada 1692 (1979).
James R. Jacob, Newtonian Theology and the Defense of the Glorious Revolution, in The Age of William III and Mary II: Power, Politics, and Patronage, 1688-1720 (Robert P. Maccubbin and Martha Hamilton-Phillips ed.
James Walker, The English Exiles in Holland During the Reigns of Charles II and James II, 30 Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 4th 111 (1948).
www.thegloriousrevolution.org /document.asp?doc=bib   (8547 words)

  
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JAMES K. An old and highly esteemed citizen of Monon, James K. Wilson was accidentally killed by a train at Monon, February 18, 1907.
JAMES K. The Wilson family still has in its possession the patent to a tract of land on section 22 in what is now Monon Township, the instrument bearing the signature of Andrew Jackson, who was President of the United States when the Wilsons first came to White County.
JAMES R. An old settler of White County, James R. Wood was born in North Carolina, July 3, 1829.
www.brookston.lib.in.us /WhiteCo/biographies-W.htm   (15952 words)

  
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James II was killed at the siege of Roxburgh, by a splinter from a burst cannon.
James VI, destined to unite on his head the two crowns of Scotland and England, son of a father who had been assassinated, led a melancholy and timorous existence, between the scaffold of his mother, Mary Stuart, and that of his son, Charles I. Charles II spent a portion of his life in exile.
Mary Stuart was then in the full bloom of her beauty, beauty even more brilliant in its mourning garb-a beauty so wonderful that it shed around her a charm which no one whom she wished to please could escape, and which was fatal to almost everyone.
books.rakeshv.org /html/marys11.html   (16353 words)

  
 Darnley, Henry Stuart or Stewart, Lord articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Darnley, Henry Stuart, Lord DARNLEY, HENRY STUART, LORD [Darnley, Henry Stuart, Lord] 1545-67, second husband of Mary Queen of Scots and father of James I of England (James VI of Scotland).
Stuart, Arabella STUART, ARABELLA [Stuart, Arabella] 1575-1615, cousin of James I of England (James VI of Scotland).
James I JAMES I [James I] 1566-1625, king of England (1603-25) and, as James VI, of Scotland (1567-1625).
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/03443.html   (533 words)

  
 The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (O-P)
The Orangemen celebrate William III defeat of the Catholic James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
The Order of the Bath is an English class of knighthood which was constituted on the 11th of October 1399 by Henry IV when he conferred the order upon forty-six esquires, who had watched the night before, and bathed.
Princess Elizabeth was the eldest daughter of James I of England.
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 Anne of Great Britain - Enpsychlopedia
Anne was the last monarch of the House of Stuart; she was succeeded by a distant cousin, George I, of the House of Hanover.
James, desirous of a Roman Catholic successor, suggested to Princess Anne that he would try to make her his heir (to the exclusion of Mary) on the condition of her embracing Roman Catholicism.
The reign of Anne was marked by an increase in the influence of ministers and a decrease in the influence of the Crown.
www.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Anne_I_of_the_United_Kingdom   (3896 words)

  
 2/4/2006 - Stuart James: Bernie Miller Engages In Voodoo Politics - And Replies - Opinion - Chattanoogan.com
Stuart, you are better than this, you owe Bernie Miller an apology.
In Stuart James' latest letter attacking Bernie Miller, he again proves that he is out of touch with reality.
James self-destruct and continue to be thankful that Stuart James is the best thing that has ever happened to them.
www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_79811.asp   (1991 words)

  
 Renaissance Forum: Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 1998: Tristan Marshall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
James Stuart's predilection for a good sermon is well known.
Elizabeth liked a sermon to be succinct but she, like James had to contend with preachers like the un-named cleric who preached the first sermon in Lent 1579, inveighing against marriage to foreigners at the time when Elizabeth was on the brink of marrying Alençon.
Here again, as if we needed reminding is James Stuart, showing off the colours of the capable politician more associated a generation ago with the rule of his Scottish kingdom than with his English one.
www.hull.ac.uk /renforum/v3no1/marshall.htm   (1294 words)

  
 Planet Preterist - Republicans and Civil Rights
Basically, he could not jeopardize the political support of the Dixiecrats and many politicians in the rest of the country who were concerned about the radical change that was in the offing.
The efforts of politicians were needed to write all the changes and efforts into law.
James Farmer of CORE stated that "people will march en masse to the post offices there to file handwritten letters" in protest.
www.planetpreterist.com /news-881.html   (3587 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: Winston Churchill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Born at Blenheim Palace, Winston Churchill was a descendant of the first famous member of the Churchill family: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (whose father was also a "Sir Winston Churchill").
Winston's politician father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was the third son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough: Winston's mother was Jennie Jerome (née Jeanette Jerome) of Brooklyn, New York, a daughter of American millionaire Leonard Jerome.
In 1895, he went to Cuba as a military observer with the Spanish army in its fight against the independentists.
www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/people/Winston_Churchill   (3654 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> 1685   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
February 6 - James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland.
June 20 - Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland declares himself King and heir to his father's Kingdoms as James II of England and Ireland and James VII of Scotland, after already forming his own army and campaigning against his uncle.
July 6 - Monmouth Rebellion: The Battle of Sedgemoor between the armies of King James II of England and rebel forces under Monmouth.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/1685   (557 words)

  
 Rizzio, David articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bothwell, James Hepburn, 4th earl of BOTHWELL, JAMES HEPBURN, 4TH EARL OF [Bothwell, James Hepburn, 4th earl of], 1536?-1578, Scottish nobleman; third husband of Mary Queen of Scots.
Murray, James Stuart, 1st earl of MURRAY, JAMES STUART, 1ST EARL OF [Murray, James Stuart, 1st earl of], 1531?-1570, Scottish nobleman.
An illegitimate son of James V by a daughter of the earl of Mar, he was, therefore, half brother of Mary Queen of Scots.
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/11018.html   (448 words)

  
 The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh - private collections of papers
It appears from the contents of the book that James Miller, eminent Edinburgh surgeon and professor, took time to write to some of the worthies of the day, perhaps to alert them to some apparent mistake in their writing or to enclose a pamphlet on a development in medicine (see the letters of Charles Dickens).
James Miller (1812-1864) gained the licence of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1832 and was subsequently elected to the Fellowship.
It is not absolutely clear whether James Miller started the book or whether his son collected together his correspondence after his death and complied the book.
www.rcsed.ac.uk /site/PID=2612005151935/760/default.aspx   (1198 words)

  
 Brown (James) Gordon - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Brown, (James) Gordon (1951-), British Labour Party politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1997-).
Born in Glasgow, Brown was educated at the...
Brown, James (1928- ), American gospel-soul singer, songwriter, and bandleader, born in Macon, Georgia.
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 1997 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
August 2 - Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver is rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, Australia, in which 18 lives were lost.
May 31 - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (b.
July 2 - James Stewart, American actor (b.
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 The Political & Religious Climate That Jump-Started The King James Bible   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Authorized King James Bible has been, and continues to be, the God honored, most accurate, and best English translation of the inspired, inerrant, infallible, and preserved original language words of God.
JAMES was a married man and fathered six children according to this book.
They had to prove to the king that there was something Scripturally wrong with bishops’ administration of the confirmation, as well as the use of the cross in baptism, the ring in a wedding service, and kneeling to receive communion, or the wearing of the surplice, or even the institution of the episcopacy itself.
www.deanburgonsociety.org /KJBible/king_james.htm   (4015 words)

  
 Rathfarnham Castle
The current building was designed by James Stewart and William Chambers and is believed to have been built around 1583 for Adam Loftus, then Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
Connolly was a famous politician and an excellent speaker in the House of Commons.
The Castle has a colourful and interesting history with 18th century interiors by Sir William Chambers and James Athenian Stuart and was declared a National Monument in the mid-1980s.
www.geocities.com /jorgenpfhartogs/Rathfarnham_Castle.html   (882 words)

  
 Strange Science: References and Acknowledgments
Secord, James A. Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.
Watson, James D. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA.
Hayward, James L. "History of Science: Fossil Proboscidians and Myths of Giant Men" Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences.
www.strangescience.net /stbib2.htm   (2981 words)

  
 Broadside entitled 'Trial and acquittal'
James Stuart who was tried at the High Court of Justiciary, for being art and part in a duel in which Sir Alexander Boswell lost his life…'.
Sir Alexander Boswell (son of the biographer James Boswell) was an active Tory politician, mainly in Devon, England, although he was also actively involved in Scottish literary life.
Stuart discovered the name of his satirist whilst taking action against the 'Glasgow Sentinel'.
www.nls.uk /broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/15328   (188 words)

  
 SAPD: Pioneer - James Stuart Mackie
Believing that his financial prospects were greater in Canada than in London, in 1882 James S. Mackie immigrated to Winnipeg to learn the gunsmithing trade at the Hingston Smith Arms Company.
As each went into business on his own, James Mackie established himself as an independent gunsmith while Joseph Cockle became an independent taxidermist in the town.
In his spare time, James Mackie was often drawn to the splendid library in his house.
www.pioneersalberta.org /mackie_james_stuart.html   (1429 words)

  
 IPS Features Staff
As a politician, he served 16 years in the highest elective office in Hamilton County, Tennessee, and was given the honorary title of County Executive Emeritus.
But Stuart and his five brothers and one sister were born in Daytona Beach, FL.
Managing partner of the firm of Goins, Carpenter and James, Stuart plies the legal trade with a license to practice law in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama.
www.ipspress.com /ipsf/Staff/ipsfstaff.html   (1403 words)

  
 Early Cattle History
The following excerpts are from the daily journal of Granville and James Stuart, early pioneers in the Deer Lodge valley.
In 1850 Capt. Richard Grant with his sons, John and James Grant, began trading along the Emigrant road in Utah for footsore and worn-out cattle and horses.
In May, 1874, James Forbis purchased three hundred head of fat beef steers from Conrad Kohrs and drove them to Ogden and from there shipped them to Omaha by rail.
www.pcmaf.org /early_cattle_history.htm   (576 words)

  
 Introduction to Mill Supplement
James Mill [1773-1836] was a Scottish philosopher, historian, and economist.
John Stuart Mill was taught Greek, Latin, geometry, algebra, logic, history, and political economy by his father.
According to John Stuart Mill's Autobiography, he was made to learn Greek at the age of three, and by the time of eight he had read, among other authors, "the whole of Herodotus" and six dialogues of Plato, including the Theaetetus....
www.fiu.edu /~hauptli/IntroductiontoMill.html   (2398 words)

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