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Candlish
Candlish is a Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * James Smith Candlish (1835–1892), Scottish minister, son of Robert * John Candlish (1816–1874), British glass bottle manufacturer and Liberal Party politician * Louise Candlish, British author * Robert Smith Candlish (1806–1873), Scottish minister, father of James See also * McCandlish McCandlish (, is Scottish surname (and rarely also a given name), derived from Scottish Gaelic and Middle Irish (among other spellings), meaning 'son of Cuindleas', an Old Irish given name of uncertain meaning. A newer edition of this book exi ..., a related surname {{surname Surnames of Scottish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Smith Candlish
Robert Smith Candlish (23 March 1806 – 19 October 1873) was a Scottish minister who was a leading figure in the Disruption of 1843. He served for many years in both St. George's Church and St George's Free Church on Charlotte Square in Edinburgh's New Town. Life He was born at 11 West Richmond Street in Edinburgh, the son of James Candlish (1760-1806), a lecturer in Medicine who died soon after he was born. He was raised by his mother, Jane Smith (1768-1854). She moved to Glasgow soon after her husband's death and survived by running a boarding house at 49 Virginia Street. The building was then a new building. It survives but is now a little dilapidated. In 1820, he began studying Divinity at Glasgow University, where he graduated in 1823. During the years 1823–1826 he went through the prescribed course at the divinity hall, then presided over by Rev Dr Stevenson McGill. On leaving, he accompanied a pupil as private tutor to Eton College, where he stayed two years. In 182 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McCandlish
McCandlish (, is Scottish surname (and rarely also a given name), derived from Scottish Gaelic and Middle Irish (among other spellings), meaning 'son of Cuindleas', an Old Irish given name of uncertain meaning. A newer edition of this book exists (2015, ). Variants Some variants include McAndlish, McCanalish, McCandelich, McCandelish, McCandish, McCandlash, and McCandleis, among others. Spellings with ''Mac'' were believed to be extinct by the first half of the 20th century, but still survive among a few families, primarily in the United States and Canada. As with other names of this sort, versions with ''M''' were also attested until the early 20th century. The name is closely related to McCandless (from the same derivation), found in Scotland and especially the north of Ireland (Ulster). Link is to 1985 edition, but pagination is the same. A newer edition of this book exists (1989, ). Some recorded north Irish variants are more similar to McCandlish, e.g. McCandleish, whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Candlish
John Candlish (baptism, bapt. 28 April 1816 – 17 March 1874) was a British glass bottle manufacturer and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. Early life Candlish was born in Tarset, Northumberland, the eldest son of farmer John Candlish and Mary, née Robson. After Mary died in 1820, Candlish senior moved the family to Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, Sunderland where the latter found work at Ayres Quay bottleworks, managed by his brother, Robert. Candlish was educated at local Dissenter schools and then at an academy in North Shields before returning to Sunderland, aged eleven, to work in the bottleworks. Aged fourteen, his uncle secured him an apprenticeship as a draper and he began to study the French language and joined a debating society. Early career In 1836, Candlish became a partner in a drapery business, and later that year purchased the newspaper, ''Sunderland Beacon'', but it failed within six months. Other short-lived ventures followed into coal exporting and sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Candlish
Louise Candlish is a British author. In 2019, her crime novel '' Our House'' won the Crime & Thriller Book of the Year award at the British Book Awards. In 2021, the novel was adapted into an ITV drama starring Tuppence Middleton and Martin Compston Martin Compston (born 8 May 1984) is a Scottish actor and former professional footballer. He played Anti-Corruption Unit Detective Inspector Steve Arnott in the BBC drama ''Line of Duty'', Liam in Ken Loach's '' Sweet Sixteen'', Paul Ferris in .... She is also the author of The Other Passenger, which was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, ''The Heights'' (2021) and ''Those People'' (2019). References External links * Living people 20th-century English novelists 20th-century English women writers 21st-century English novelists 21st-century English women writers British Book Award winners British crime fiction writers English women novelists Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Smith Candlish
James Smith Candlish (1835–1897) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland who was a professor of theology in Glasgow. Life He was born on 14 December 1835 at 9 Castle Street in Edinburgh's New Town the son of Jessie Brock and her husband, Rev Robert Smith Candlish. He was named after a recently deceased uncle, James Smith Candlish. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy. He then took a general degree at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MA in 1858 then studied divinity at New College, Edinburgh. He spent some time in Europe studying at Berlin and Erlangen University. At the Disruption of 1843, his father was one of the leading figures in the creation of the Free Church of Scotland. James was ordained as a Free Church of Scotland minister at Logiealmond in 1863. He was translated to Aberdeen East in 1868. In 1872, he became Professor of Systematic Theology at the Free Church College in Glasgow. He lived at 5 Royal Circus.Glasgow Post Office Direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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