... gentleman, also throwing himself with vigour into local and county business. He became a captain in the militia, chairman of the parish school and parochial boards, served as convener of the finance committee of the county, and occupied other public... Dictionary of National Biography. Supplement - Stran 36uredili: - 1901Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| David Laing, John Small - 1885 - 468 strani
...celebrated manuscript of ancient Scottish poetry is preserved in the Advocates' Library. In that year he became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and was for the long period of fifty-four years one of its most active members. For sixteen years, at a... | |
| Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1909 - 1468 strani
...finance committee of the county, and occupied other public posts. Taking up the study of archteology, he became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of...represent Great Britain at the international congress of archseology. In 1874 he was one of the founders of the Ayrshire and Wigtonshire Archteological Association.... | |
| 1922 - 1492 strani
...finance committee of the county, and occupied other public posts. Taking up the study of archceology, he became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of...archaeology. In 1874 he was one of the founders of the Ayrshire and Wigtonshire Archaeological Association. To the collections of this society he contributed... | |
| Sir Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1922 - 1912 strani
...hi> tory of the county, and started in 1867 the 'Dumbarton Journal,' which was unsuccessful. In 1860 he became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and in 1864 an honorary member of the Archaeological Society of Glasgow, to the 'Transactions' of which... | |
| David Matthews - 1999 - 268 strani
...father's business in 1821 that he devoted himself to scholarship in early Scottish literature. In 1827 he became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and was later able to give up the bookselling business.23 Utterson was educated at Eton and Trinity Hall,... | |
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