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  Famous Scots
John Barclay - Founder of the Berean sect
John Dunlop - Inventor of the pneumatic tyre
Patrick Forbes - Laird of Corse of Aberdeenshire
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  BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Profile: John Kerry
John Kerry became the candidate because he was seen by Democrats as a credible challenger to President Bush, especially over the issue of Iraq.
The Forbes family in the United States goes back to an Anglican clergyman, the Reverend John Forbes, who, after leaving the University of Aberdeen in 1763 was sent to the American colonies by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
John Kerry went to a boarding school in Switzerland, to a top private school in New Hampshire and then to Yale, where he studied political science and joined the secret and elite Skull and Bones club, just as George W Bush did two years later.
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  John Forbes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Forbes (d.1665), Scottish music publisher; published first printed secular music in Scotland
John Forbes (1710-1759), British General in the French and Indian War
John M. Forbes (1813-1898), American banker and railroad president
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 Forbes
FORBES, the surname of a clan, though not a Celtic one, having its possessions principally in Aberdeenshire, and the chief of which is Lord Forbes; its badge being the common broom, and the gathering shout or slogan, Loanach, the name of a hill in the district of Strathdon.
John Forbes of Bellabeg, the direct descendant of the said William of Dauch, was born at Bellabeg in September 1743.
Forbes, the second laird of Callander of the name, vice-lieutenant of Stirlingshire, and member of parliament for that county from 1835 to 1837, was re-elected in 1841 and in 1852.
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 1785 St. ndrew's Society Bios Bklyn
This family of Forbes of Kingerloch is descended from the youngest son of Sir John Forbes, Vth Laird of Drumminer, brother of the 1st Lord Forbes.
JOHN He was the second son of Sir John Rutherfurd of Edgerston, Roxburghshire, and Elizabeth Cairncross, and was baptized June 12th, 1712.
JOHN Vice-President 1770-71; President 1771-72 John Watts was the son of Robert Watts, of Rose Hill, near Edinburgh, and Mary, eldest daughter of William Nicoll, of Islip, Long Island.
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John Davan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton
John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden
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John Butler Smith, forty-seventh Governor (1893-95), was a descendant of one of the settlers of 1718.
John Francis Mercer (1759-1821), eleventh Governor (1801-03), was a descendant of the Mercers of Aldie, Perthshire.
John Robertson (1814-87), born in Banffshire, was Adjutant-General of Michigan from 1861 to 1887.
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Forbes had three sons, the last born at Brush Hill after she had been persuaded by her father, who visited St. Augustine in 1773, to return to Massachusetts for the sake of her health.
Forbes, except for a journey to Florida in a vain attempt to sal- vage some of the family property there, remained at Brush Hill until her death in 1811.
One of the clergy, Reverend John Leadbeater, was pressed by Governor Tonyn in 1775 to assume the position and salary of school- master in addition to his clerical- work, but he re- fused and returned to England.
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 HSP Manuscript Guide: 1900-1999
John Mulhallan Hale was a merchant, supplier, druggist, and insurance executive of Centre County and later Philadelphia.
John Hugg Clunn was quarter master in New Jersey detached Militia, Artillery Battalion to brigadier general Joseph Bloomfield's Infantry Brigade, describing march from Trenton to Pittsburgh and back to quell the Whiskey Rebellion; continued as anonymous recipes, prose, and poetry.
George Embree, John Murry, Jr., and Thomas Eddy, New York Quakers report on a journey undertaken to various Indian tribes on the New York western frontier by direction of the Meeting for Suffering and the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Yearly Meeting of New York.
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 Sir John Forbes Descendants - pafg10.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William FORBES Mayor of Dublin was born in Newstone Co Meath Ireland.
John ARMITAGE was born on 17 Dec 1728 in Liverpool Lancashire England.
Arthur FORBES (Arthur, William, James, William, Alexander, William, Alexander, John, John) was born in 1670 in Newstone Co Meath Ireland.
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 Definition of John Forbes (clergyman)
John Forbes (1740 - September 17, 1783) was a clergyman and magistrate in East Florida.
The University of Aberdeen conferred on him the degree of M.A. in the spring of 1763, and he was then recommended to the bishops of the Church of England for ordination to the ministry.
John Forbes was the first clergyman licensed to officiate in East Florida; and on May 5, 1764, he gave the customary bond to be conveyed to his missionary field, St.
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 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Forbes was moving in a similar direction, and on October 9, 1849 he resigned as pastor of St. Luke’s.
Thus it was that Forbes was sent to speak at the cornerstone laying of the church of St. Mary, Star of the Sea in Far Rockaway on August 15, 1852.
In 1859, to the shock and sadness of Archbishop Hughes, Forbes reverted to the Episcopal Church, re-married and was re-admitted to its ministry.
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 Pope John Paul II: The Movie | Cast and Crew
Jon Voight—Pope John Paul II Born in Yonkers, New York in 1938, Voight first gained widespread attention and received a Golden Globe Award for his 1969 role in the controversial movie "Midnight Cowboy," which also starred Dustin Hoffman.
John Kent Harrison attended Loyola College in Montreal, Canada, where a Jesuit priest convinced him to start studying Italian cinema.
Although shot on a lavish scale in Italy, Poland and elsewhere, 'Pope John Paul II' succeeds on intimate terms even when troops are marching or huge crowds are filling St. Peter's Square, and Elwes and Voight are largely responsible.
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 On the Lachlan Years Ago
From Forbes John took his family to Booligal, further down the Lachlan, and that was to be their home for the last two decades of the nineteenth century.
John Ledwich (nephew by marriage) was undertaker, and the body was laid to rest in the old Cemetery on the south bank of the Lachlan about one mile south of the village.
John Clancy had a volatile temper, and there were occasions when he would return from work to the home in Booligal to find members of the family happily singing around the piano.
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 The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut - 1636 Hartford, Connecticut
A clergyman, he was ordered to appear before the court of high commission for nonconformist preaching in England and fled (1630) to Holland.
John Cotton became the Teacher of the Boston church.
The church led by Hooker and Stone prospered and in 1635 one of the church's leading members, John Haynes, was elected gov-ernor of the Massachusetts Bay.
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 Forbes family - China-related Topics FM-FP - China-Related Topics
Born in France, John Murray Forbes entered the China trade at the behest of his Perkins uncles, and after his brother Tom Forbes died, and thereafter John Murray Forbes was mentored by the Chinese merchant Houqua who considered Forbes to be like a son.
John KerryJohn Forbes Kerry is a U.S. Senator and was a candidate for President of the U.S. Though he is a beneficiary of several Forbes family trusts (c.
However, Bertie Forbes, born in New Deer, Scotland, is a descendant of the Forbes Scottish clanclan in Scotland.
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 The Evolution of Preventive Medicine in the United States Army 1607-1939: The Colonial Period (1607-1775)
Of these, Shippen, Rush, Morgan, Church, and John Jones held high and responsible positions in the Medical Department of the Army during the Revolution and were directly concerned with military hygiene during campaigns.
FIGURE 1.- Sir John Pringle (1707-1782), founder of modern military preventive medicine and originator of the Red Cross concept; Surgeon General of the British Army, 1742-1758.
FIGURE 4.- John Morgan (1735-1789), Director General and Physician in Chief of the Medical Department of the Army of the United States (1775-1777).
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 Life of Robert Machray, by Robert Machray (1909)
The advocate's father, John Machray, held the farm of Caiesmill in the parish of Dyce, Aberdeenshire, but his main business was that of a manufacturer of woollens--blankets and cloths of the homespun description.
John Allan, the eldest son of the second marriage, having taken over Caiesmill after his father's death, remained there, while his brother James went to Begsley with his mother; the third son, Theodore, entered Marischal College, from which he graduated with great distinction.
With this clergyman he had a long and serious conversation; and he was advised not to wait for a bursary at Marischal, but to enter King's at once, where Mr.
justus.anglican.org /resources/pc/canada/machray/bio/01.html   (4012 words)

  
 Scotland's Mark on America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Ewing Colhoun (1749-1802), Member of State Legislature of South Carolina and Senator from the same state (1801), was of the same family as John C. Calhoun.
John Graham (1774-1820), Minister-Plenipotentiary to Brazil (1819), was brother of George Graham, Acting Secretary of War in the cabinets of Madison and Monroe.
John Paul Jones (1747-92), perhaps the most famous Scottish name in the annals of the American Navy, was the son of a Scottish gardener, and was born at Kirkbean, Kirkcudbrightshire.
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 LSU Libraries -- Plantations
Sugar planter of St. John the Baptist and St. Charles parishes, Louisiana, and resident of New Orleans.
John Robert Buhler was the son of John Christian Buhler, a planter of Buhler's Plains near Baton Rouge.
John Chaffe and Sons, a cotton and sugar trading concern in New Orleans, was succeeded by Wm.
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 The October 10, 1889 Edition of The Eureka Journal - Page 2
ON the 30th ult, John Brennan, an inmate of the poor-house at Shamokin, Pa, was notified that his sister, Mrs.
THE feud between the Hatfield-McCoy gang broke out again in Pike County, W. Va, on the 3d, over the marriage of John Hand to a daughter of Peter McCoy, and while the ceremony was being performed a volley of shots was poured through a window, killing the bride and groom and the clergyman.
JOHN EISENBERGER was sentenced in Baltimore on the 3d to receive fifteen lashes on his bare back and thirty days in jail for beating his wife.
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 The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Gen. John Forbes & Fort Duquesne (1758) - May 26th, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Within two weeks, however, the circumstances besetting Forbes' army underwent so dramatic a change that his expedition would stand out, in the words of historian Lewis C. Walkinshaw, as "one of the greatest in American history." Appreciating this paradox may be counted among the essential challenges confronting scholars of the French and Indian War.
Forbes himself wrote Abercromby that "wee shall not be able to keep the Cherokees notwithstanding all the pains and expenses that they have cost us." All but about 160 had abandoned the army by July.
Forbes and his staff concluded as much at the war council held on the 11th of that month.
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 Dar Al Hayat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The best explanation of John Kerry's foreign policy might be what he told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in December 2003.
John Kerry still asks to involve the allies, the UN, and the entire international community in Iraq.
Except for the John Kerry multilateral foreign policy, in contrast to W.'s unilateral one, there is no big difference between the two candidates, something that Beers openly declared to journalists.
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 Profiles in Tedium: The Constables of Duxbury
The Constables of Duxbury between 1642 and 1665 are a mixed bag-- from the eager town servants Edmund Hawes, John Tracy, and Benjamin Bartlett, to the roguish drunkard John Sprague and the forgettable Edward Hunt.
Forbes was "propounded to take up freedom" on 3 March 1645-6, so he was probably born around 1625-6.
John Sprague died before this date; at this date Ruth made over all lands to the Court of Plymouth, and still owed 40 pounds sterling to the Court unless she was able to pay off all of her late husband's debts.
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 Semple Ancestral History
Lord John is buried inside of the Collegiate church at Lochwinnoch next to Gabriel [brother or son?].
Three of her sons are to succeed to the title (Francis, John, and Hugh).
John had supported the Hanoverian Government in the rising of 1715 by attempting to promote, train and disciplin a contingent of fencible men from Ayrshire.
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 British Records Relating to America in University of Missouri Special Collections
John Bragg was the proprietor of a successful shoe-making business in Whitehaven (Cumbria, N.W. England) during the second half of the eighteenth century.
The papers of James Glen, governor of South Carolina, and John Forbes, colonel and later brigadier general in the British Forces, relate to military, financial, legislative, and Indian affairs in the colonies from 1746 to 1759.
Letters of John B. and Mary Estlin, as well as pamphlets from 1840 to 1884, are largely concerned with the anti-slavery movement.
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 Welcome to The New-York Historical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Early in 1805 its officers were elected, with Egbert Benson, a distinguished judge and patriot, as its first president, John Pintard its secretary, and John Forbes its librarian.
It was not long, however, before the nucleus of a library, acquired in 1807 from John Pintard, began to assume respectable proportions.
That the young Society was indeed alive and well and supported by its members was demonstrated by what must have been a momentous occasion: the celebration in 1809, of the two-hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson's discoveries in North America.
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poet and historian) (1316?-1395) Barclay Barclay, John (Scot.
clergyman) (1825-) Boyle Boyle, Robert (Irish chemist) (1626-1691) Boyse Boyse, Samuel (Eng.
John (of Oxford) (1625-1686) Feltham Feltham, Owen (Eng.
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 February 12th
The Resurrectionists, by associating with the lower class of undertakers, obtained possession of the bodies of the poor which were taken to their establishments several days before interment, and often a clergyman read the funeral service over a coffin filled with brick-bats, or other substitute for the stolen body.
The bodies of suicides were sometimes stolen from the charge of persons appointed to sit up with them; or they were obtained from poor-houses and infirmaries by the Resurrectionists pretending relationship with the deceased, and claiming the bodies for burial.
One was tried, and received sentence of death, for robbing the Edinburgh mail, but was pardoned upon the intercession of the Archdukes John and Lewis, who were much interested by finding the criminal at work in his cell, articulating the bones of a horse; he left the country, and was never after heard of.
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 ScienceDaily: John forbes clergyman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Duck-billed Dino Crests Not Linked To Sense Of Smell (January 31, 2006) -- After decades of debate, a U of T researcher has finally determined that duck-billed dinosaurs' massive but hollow crests had nothing to do with what many scientists suspected -- the sense of smell.
Treatment Of Down Syndrome In Mice Restores Nerve Growth In Cerebellum (January 31, 2006) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins restored the normal growth of specific nerve cells in the cerebellum of mouse models of Down syndrome that were stunted by this genetic condition.
Archaeologists Uncover One Of Biggest Medieval Graveyards (January 31, 2006) -- University of Leicester archaeologists are beginning work on examining the largest discovery of medieval skeletons -- numbering 1,300 -- to be found outside London.
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