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  Fraser, Frasier, Frazer, Frazier, Philorth, Saltoun, Aberdeen, Lowlands, Scotland, Scottish, Teutonic
The tenth Lord Saltoun was severely wounded at the Battle of Worcester in 1651, but survived thanks to his servant, James Cardno, who rescued him from the battlefield, hiding and nursing him until he finally got his master home to Fraserburgh.
Andrew Fraser of Muchalls was raised to the peerage in June 1633 with the title, 'Lord Fraser'.
The 19th Lord was succeeded by his daughter, Flora Fraser, 20th Lady Saltoun.
www.fraserclan-cal.net /philorth.html   (1388 words)

  
 William Hogarth - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The only engravings between 1726 and 1732 which need be referred to are the "Large Masquerade Ticket" (1727), another satire on masquerades, and the print of "Burlington Gate" (1731), evoked by Pope's Epistle to Lord Burlington, and defending Lord Chandos, who is therein satirized.
To say nothing of the fact that the talent of the paintings completely reconciled Sir James Thornhill to the son-in-law he had hitherto refused to acknowledge, more than twelve hundred names of subscribers to the engravings were entered in the artist's book.
The story was made into a pantomime by Theophilus Cibber, and by some one else into a ballad opera; and it gave rise to numerous pamphlets and poems.
www.1911ency.org /H/HO/HOGARTH_WILLIAM.htm   (3002 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/1747
April 9 - The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded by axe on Tower Hill, London, for high treason; he was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain
April 9 - Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief
May 9 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/1747   (483 words)

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