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  Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Bannatyne Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay, GCMG (July 11, 1842 - March 9, 1929) was a British lawyer and politician who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
Born in Newhaven, Edinburgh, Finlay was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University, graduating in medicine in 1863.
In 1900, Finlay became Attorney General, and in 1902 was elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh University.
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 Family-crests.com - Scottish Surnames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) took the throne in 1306 and fought at Bannockburn; when he died his heart was carried to Jerusalem during the Crusades, but brought back to be buried at Melrose Abbey.
Robert de Maules came to Scotland with David I and given lands in the Lothians.
Robert, the 4th baron, supported James Francis Stuart (Old Pretender) in 1715, but was forced to surrender.
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 National Portrait Gallery A-Z of Portrait Sitters (F)
Robert Walter Shirley, 12th Earl Ferrers (1894-1954), Justice of the Peace.
Robert Bannatyne Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay (1842-1929), Lord Chancellor.
Robert Forby (1759-1825), Rector of Fincham, Norfolk; philologist.
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 Canadian Literary and Art Archives - Maitland Club Notabilia
Bannatyne Club as a model for drawing up the regulations.
Formal association with the Bannatyne Club and the exchange of papers.
Opposition to Denniston because he is of the Bannatyne Club.
www.ucalgary.ca /lib-old/SpecColl/maitlandlist.htm   (1138 words)

  
 Finlay Family Crest
Robert Bannatyne Finlay (1842-1929) Scottish jurist and statesman
In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
In the Finlay coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
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 Newspaper Abstracts
George and Robert Scott confidently assert that there is no House in their Trade in this town, of such tried expertice, neither is there another in which the taste and judgment of the inhabitants of this locality can be so well suited as in their Establishment.
R.G. returns thanks to his friends and the public for the kind support he has received since he commenced business, and hopes from his experience in the different branches of his trade, and his attention to all orders he may be favoured with, to merit a continuance of their support.
The Glanworth flour mills, the property of Robert E. Gibbons, Esq., were on the night of the 4th instant, burned to the ground, as is supposed maliciously.
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 Glasgow Directory - 1787 - (Reprint of the Nathaniel Jones Directory)
At the time of the Union a census was taken by order of Robert Rodger, the Provost, and the population was found to be 12,766; while the style of living, as described by Mr.
Dugald Bannatyne, was "of a very moderate and frugal cast." The dwelling-houses of the highest class, as a general rule, contained only one public room, and even that was seldom used except for the entertainment of company.
Was the son of Robert Carrick, minister of Houston, and entered the counting-house of the "Ship Bank" at the age of fifteen, under the auspices of Provost Buchanan of Drumpellier.
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 eBay.co.uk - finlay, DVDs, Videos VHS PAL UK, Non-Fiction Books items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
gumshoe stars albert finney janice rule frank finlay
Scots Architecture Ian Finlay 1st ed Scottish Scotland
Finlay - The Fall Of Mary (CD ALBUM 2006)
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 Septs of Clan Campbell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A Finlay Dow McKermaid in Glenlyon was fined for reset of Clan Gregor in 1613.
Walter Burness in Bogjordan had Robert in Clockenhill whose son William Burness was father of the poet Robert Burns.
The Bannatynes in Bute were followers of both the Stewarts of Bute and the Earls of Argyll at different times.
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 Early Freemasonry in the Canadian West
Where the City of Winnipeg stands today were the McDermott, the Bannatyne, the Ross and the Logan homesites-and the prospect of opening a Masonic Lodge under such circumstances would seem hopeless.
It is evident the petitioners received all three degrees at the one meeting; such a procedure was not uncommon, a century ago.
One of these individuals was James Finlay, who established for himself a reputation as a man of courage and enterprise.
www.masonicworld.com /education/files/jan04/early_freemasonry_in_the_canadia.htm   (6329 words)

  
 UK peerage creations: Chronological list 1901–1950
Roberts of Kandahar in Afghanistan and Pretoria in the Transvaal Colony, and of the City of Waterford (and V. St Pierre) (special remainder) – Frederick Sleigh Roberts (1st L. Roberts of Kandahar) (died 14 Nov 1914, extinct(3) 21 Feb 1955)
Finlay of Nairn in the County of Nairn –; Robert Bannatyne Finlay (died 9 March 1929, extinct(2) 30 June 1945)
Horne of Slamannan of Slamannan in the County of Stirling – Robert Stevenson Horne (extinct(1) 3 Sep 1940)
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 Scottish Surnames A-L   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bethune — first appears in records between 1165-1190, when Robert de Betunia was a witness in court.
Robert de Lawedre fought for William Wallace and later became ambassador to England for Robert I. Lawrence — associated with Clan MacLaren.
Lennox — first Celtic earl was Alwin MacMuredach MacMaidouern, Mormaer of the Levanach in the 12th C. Lord Darnley, who married Mary, Queen of Scots, was the son of the fourth earl of Lennox.
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 Titles Deprivation Act 1917 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Bannatyne Finlay, 1st Baron Finlay (The Lord Chancellor)
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
The committee reported in August 1918; on March 28, 1919, the King issued an Order-in-Council depriving the following persons of their titles:
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 UK peerage creations: Chronological list 1801–2006
Napier of Magdâla in Abyssinia and of Caryngton in the County Palatine of Chester – Robert Cornelis Napier (died 14 Jan 1890)
Connemara of Connemara in the County of Galway – Robert Bourke (extinct(1) 3 Sep 1902)
Cranworth of Letton and Cranworth in the County of Norfolk – Robert Thornhaugh Gurdon (died 13 Oct 1902)
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 Account of McLea
The second son, Archibald, born in 1738, became minister of Rothesay in 1765, married Isabella Macleod, grand-daughter of Hector Bannatyne of Kames, and died in 1824.
On 5 May 1568 Duncan Lamont of Inveryn granted to Robert Stewart his 5 merk land of Auchnaskey on the resignation of John Leiche M'Douiff [sic ].
In this year there was a great fire in Glasgow by which a great part of the houses in the Saltmarket, Trongate, Gallowgate, and Bridgegate were destroyed.
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 British ministries, political parties, etc.
1965) 1952 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (s.a.) 1952 - 1955 Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Viscount Swinton (b.
(commissioners) 1757 - 30 Jul 1766 Sir Robert Henley (from 1760, Robert Henley, Baron Henley; from 1764, Robert Henley, Earl of Northington) (b.
1937) 1923 - 1924 Robert Cecil, (from Dec 1923) Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (b.
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 ContractsProf Blog: Today in History: The Argument in Carbolic Smoke Ball
Finlay (left) had graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University before deciding to practice law, and had been a Liberal Member of Parliament for a nearly a decade at the time he argued the case.
After Carlill Finlay would go on to bigger things: Solicitor General (1895), Attorney General (1900), and Lord Chancellor in David Lloyd George’s wartime government (1916).
Later, he'd serve as a member of the Court of Arbitration at the Hague and a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice under the League of Nations, would be raised to the peerage as 1st Viscount Finlay.
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 The Project Gutenberg ebook of Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time, or, The Jarls and The Freskyns, by James Gray, ...
James Brichan, and presented to the Bannatyne Club by the second Duke of Sutherland and the late Sir David Dundas.
Malcolm's second daughter, Donada, he married to Finnleac or Finlay Mac Ruari, Maormor of North Moray, and a chief of the northern Picts, and they had a son, Macbeth, born about 1005, who succeeded Duncan I on his death in 1040 as King of Scotland, but left no issue.
The three marriages were intended to secure to Malcolm the south, the middle, and the north of Pictland through the fathers of Duncan, Macbeth, and Thorfinn respectively; and we may note that from Thorfinn are descended all subsequent Jarls and Earls of Orkney and Shetland and Caithness of the so-called Norse line.
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 ContractsProf Blog: December 5, 2005 - December 11, 2005
If Bacon should marry the famous beauty and become possessed of her large fortune, there was no saying, thought the Cecils, but that he might attain to such an exalted position as to put their own precocious Robert in the shade.
Coke attended his funeral, and a funeral being obviously a fitting occasion on which to talk about that still more dreary ceremony, a wedding, Coke took advantage of it to broach the question of a marriage between himself and Lady Elizabeth Hatton.
He broached it both to her father, the new Lord Burghley, and to her uncle, the much more talented Robert.
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 Finlay Coat of Arms, Family Crest
Many people wonder which spelling of this Scottish name is the older.
The line of Stewart monarchs of Scotland began in 1371, descending from the union of Marjorie, daughter of King Robert the Bruce and Walter, the 6th High Steward of Scotland.
Mary, Queen of Scots was born in 1542, a few days later her father died and she became infant Queen of Scotland.
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 Smallest majorities at Westminster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Sheriff made a double return, but Mr Smollett, the sitting MP, was allowed to retain the seat.
Twenty years later, on the 27 th of November 1885, Sir Robert Anstruther of Balcaskie Bt, and Stephen Williamson, both Liberals, polled 1,256 votes each on a 88.5 % turnout.
After a scrunity on 16 th February 1886, one vote was added to the totals for Sir Robert Anstruther who became the MP.
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 Septs of Clan Campbell
The head of the Bute Bannatynes was Bannatyne of Kames, a property on Bute which came to the family when Gilbert, son of Gilbert, received it in a charter of King Alexander III.
In the 1547 Bond Bannatyne is described as ‘Chief of the MacAmelynes’ - a scribe’s botched attempt but one at a name which sounds a great deal more Gaelic in character and which may reflect the true origin of this kindred.
The arms of Bannatyne of Kames, in use prior to 1672, are gules a chevron argent between three mullets or.
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 The National Archives | National Register of Archives | Browse the combined corporate and business indexes
Findlay, Robert (1721-1814) Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Divinity (1)
Finlay, Robert Bannatyne (1842-1929) 1st Viscount Finlay, Lord Chancellor (6)
Finlay, Thomas (1848-1940) Jesuit Philosopher and Agricultural Reformer (1)
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 Index to North Dakota Historical Quarterly: Volumes 1-11, 1926 -1944
Ange, Harriet L., granddaughter of Robert Dickson, 3:203; Henry, great-grandson of RD, 203, 199n; Howard, great-grandson of RD, 203; Mary, RD's daughter 199n, 203; Nicholas, grandson of RD, 203; Silas, great-grandson of RD, 203; Thomas, grandson of RD, 203
Campbell, David; river pilot, 1.2:37; J. Robert, 1.1:35, 36, journal of, 1.1:35-45; Archibald, 3:trader 22; Charles T., 240, 244; John, trader, 16, 22, 37; R. and W,.
Crofton, Col., 9:111; Maj. Robert E. A., at Fort Berthold, 10:30, 35, 45n.
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Through some other searches on John's family, as well as the World War I draft card of his son, Robert John Yuile MacLea, I was able to connect him definitively to Rod, who I was thankfully able to email just before he left one job to take another.
Since at that time, I knew her husband had long pre-deceased her, and she was living in New Hampshire and not Stoughton, I figured that this place must also be where her husband Peter, my great-grandfather, was buried.
Through the Stoughton History website of David Allen Lambert, I was able to get in touch with the family of former Superintendent of the Evergreen Cemetery, Robert Cushing.
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 The Antiquarian Print Gallery-Antique prints and antique maps,antique engravings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
If I have items of interest I can put them online for you to see.
Robert Bannatyne Finlay, Q.C., M.D., M.P. Original Chromolithograph by Carlo Pelligrini, ("APE") for Vanity Fair.
Son of a Edinburgh Doctor, born 1842,.." he has ever(since the long and great Colin Campbell divorce case) been looked uponas the correct council to be retained for desperate cases.." Size= 30cm x 40cm /
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 Review of Twist In the Tale
Ann Gray is a musician with roots in Nova Scotia, now transplanted to the Canadian prairie.
She received her bagpipe tuition from Robyn Whitty, Finlay MacNeill, and Bob Worrall.
She has been a consistent prizewinner on the West Coast.
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 LONGLIST OF SHIPS
ROBERT AND BETSY - LESSLIE ROBERT CAPT - JUN 1854 B 68 1
ROBERT DICKSON - HJARNE B CAPT - DEC 1859 B 171 1
ROBERT HENRY - RANDALL GEORGE CAPT - JAN 1854 B 60 1
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 Gregory Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
or M'Intyre, wife of Robert M'Gregor, Blacksmith, 22 Mair Street, Plantation, Glasgow, d.
or MacIntyre, wife of Robert M'Gregor, Blacksmith, 22 Mair Street, Plantation, Glasgow, d.
or Campbell, wife of Robert M'Gregor, Farmer, Tomachorian, Parish of Fortingall, County of Perth, d.
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