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Albert Ernest Laurie
Canon Albert Ernest Laurie MC (and bar) DD FRSE (25 June 1866 – 25 April 1937) was a Scottish Episcopalian priest, and military hero of the First World War. Life Laurie was born on 25 June 1866 at 13 Union Street the son of John Laurie, an Edinburgh accountant, and his wife, Janet Elizabeth Cullingworth. He was educated at Bonnington Academy, a small private school (now 174 Newhaven Road). In 1885 he attended the University of Edinburgh to study divinity. He entered the Theological College as a postgraduate in 1887 and studied until 1890. He was appointed curate of Old St Paul's Church on Jeffrey Street in 1891 and remained there for the majority of his working life, becoming rector in 1897. For most of his life he lived in Lauder House on Jeffrey Street, the rectory connected to Old St Paul's Church. The house was designed by James Lessels in 1886. Laurie was raised to Canon in 1917 and appointed Chancellor of the Diocese of Edinburgh in 1925. Old St Paul's was the centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plaque To Albert Ernest Laurie, Old St Pauls Church, Edinburgh
Plaque may refer to: Commemorations or awards * Commemorative plaque, a plate or tablet fixed to a wall to mark an event, person, etc. * Memorial Plaque (medallion), issued to next-of-kin of dead British military personnel after World War I * Plaquette, a small plaque in bronze or other materials Science and healthcare * Amyloid plaque * Atheroma or atheromatous plaque, a buildup of deposits within the wall of an artery * Dental plaque, a biofilm that builds up on teeth * A broad papule, a type of cutaneous condition * Pleural plaque, associated with mesothelioma, cancer often caused by exposure to asbestos * Senile plaques, an extracellular protein deposit in the brain implicated in Alzheimer's disease * Skin plaque, a plateau-like lesion that is greater in its diameter than in its depth * Viral plaque, a visible structure formed by virus propagation within a cell culture Other uses * Plaque, a rectangular casino token See also * * * Builder's plate * Plac (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Halliday Croom
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fellows Of The Royal Society Of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established in 1783. , there are around 1,800 Fellows. The Society covers a broader selection of fields than the Royal Society of London, including literature and history. Fellowship includes people from a wide range of disciplines – science & technology, arts, humanities, medicine, social science, business, and public service. History At the start of the 18th century, Edinburgh's intellectual climate fostered many clubs and societies (see Scottish Enlightenment). Though there were several that treated the arts, sciences and medicine, the most prestigious was the Society for the Improvement of Medical Knowledge, commonly referred to as the Medical Society of Edinburgh, co-founded by the mathematician Colin Maclaurin in 1731. Maclaurin was unhappy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni Of The University Of Edinburgh
This is a list of notable graduates as well as non-graduate former students, academic staff, and university officials of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. It also includes those who may be considered alumni by extension, having studied at institutions that later merged with the University of Edinburgh. The university is associated with 19 Nobel Prize laureates, three Turing Award winners, an Abel Prize laureate and Fields Medallist, four Pulitzer Prize winners, three Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, and several Olympic gold medallists. Government and politics Heads of state and government United Kingdom Cabinet and Party Leaders Scottish Cabinet and Party Leaders Current Members of the House of Commons * Wendy Chamberlain, MP for North East Fife * Joanna Cherry, MP for Edinburgh South West * Colin Clark, MP for Gordon * Anneliese Dodds, MP for Oxford East * Kate Green, MP for Stretford and Urmston * John Howell, MP for Henley * Neil Hudson, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clergy From Edinburgh
Clergy are formal leaders within established religions. Their roles and functions vary in different religious traditions, but usually involve presiding over specific rituals and teaching their religion's doctrines and practices. Some of the terms used for individual clergy are clergyman, clergywoman, clergyperson, churchman, and cleric, while clerk in holy orders has a long history but is rarely used. In Christianity, the specific names and roles of the clergy vary by Christian denomination, denomination and there is a wide range of formal and informal clergy positions, including deacons, Elder (Christianity), elders, priests, bishops, preachers, pastors, presbyters, Minister (Christianity), ministers, and the pope. In Islam, a religious leader is often known formally or informally as an imam, caliph, qadi, mufti, mullah, muezzin, or ayatollah. In the Judaism, Jewish tradition, a religious leader is often a rabbi (teacher) or hazzan (cantor). Etymology The word ''cleric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Episcopalian Clergy
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1937 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza GarcÃa becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with supporters of Maronite leader Youssef Bey Karam, at St. Doumit in Lebanon; the Ottomans are defeated. * January 12 ** The ''Royal Aeronautical Society'' is formed as ''The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain'' in London, the world's oldest such society. ** British auxiliary steamer sinks in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, on passage from the Thames to Australia, with the loss of 244 people, and only 19 survivors. * January 18 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established. * January 26 – Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins. * February 7 – Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao, in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile. * February 13 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Pillans Laurie
Prof Arthur Pillans Laurie FRSE LLD (1861 – 1949) was a Scottish chemist who pioneered the scientific analysis of paintings, especially by Rembrandt. He also was a fascist symapthiser who opposed the Second World War. Early life Laurie was born on 6 November 1861, the son of Simon Somerville Laurie FRSE and his wife, Catherine Ann Hibburd. The family lived at Brunstane House, a 17th-century country house, south of Portobello, in eastern Edinburgh. He was the brother of zoologist Malcolm Laurie (1866-1932), also a fellow of the RSE. Laurie was educated at Edinburgh Academy from 1871 to 1878 and then studied Science at University of Edinburgh and then King's College, Cambridge, where he took a first in science in 1884. Chemist The pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt interested Laurie in the chemistry of paint and the scientific analysis of paintings. Laurie pioneered the use of chemical analysis to discover the composition of artworks to show their true age and origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Haig Ferguson
James Haig Ferguson Legum Doctor, LLD FRSE Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, FRCPE Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, FRCSEd (18 December 1862 – 2 May 1934) was a prominent Scottish Obstetrics, obstetrician and Gynaecology, gynaecologist. He served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1929 to 1931 and was president of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society. He chaired the Central Midwives Board of Scotland and was manager of Donaldson's School for the Deaf. In 1929 he was a founder member of the British (later Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In 1899 he founded the Haig Ferguson Memorial Home for unmarried mothers to give birth without chastisement. It was originally called the Lauriston Home and was renamed following his death; it closed in 1974. Early life He was born on 18 December 1862, in the manse at Fossoway (now known as Crook of Devon), Perthshire, the son of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robert Milne
James Robert Milne Royal Scottish Society of Arts, PRSSA FRSE (c.1880–3 February 1961) was a 20th-century Scottish physicist. He served as President of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts from 1923 to 1925. Life He graduated with a BSc from the University of Edinburgh in 1899. He was an early radio engineer and ran the Edinburgh and District Radio Society from around 1900. In 1904 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Gordon MacGregor, Cargill Gilston Knott, William Peddie, and George Chrystal. He lived at 11 Melville Crescent in Edinburgh's West End.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1911 In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. In 1923 he succeeded Richard Stanfield as President of the society. In 1925 he was succeeded in turn by R. S. Pilcher, Robert Stuart Pilcher. From 1912 to 1946 he lectured in physics at the University of Edinburgh. He died in Edinburgh on 3 February 1961. References 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
