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Drylaw
Drylaw is an area in the north west of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, located between Blackhall and Granton. It forms the community of Drylaw–Telford. Drylaw used to belong to the younger branch of the Foresters of Corstorphine. Formerly the estate of Drylaw House, built in 1718, the home of the Loch family, the area became the site of a major housing scheme in the 1950s designed to rehouse the occupants of Leith. It is on the A902 road. Its name comes from the Scots language and means "hill without a spring". Buildings seeBuildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford McWilliam and Walker *Old Drylaw House, now ruinous, a small mansion dating from the early 17th century *Drylaw House, a classical mansion dating from 1718 with alterations of 1786 *Drylaw Parish Church, by Sir William Kininmonth 1956 Notable residents * Baron Loch of Drylaw *Admiral Francis Erskine Loch (1788–1868) born and raised in Drylaw House *Graham Hastings of the band Young Fathers Youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drylaw House, Edinburgh
Drylaw is an area in the north west of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, located between Blackhall and Granton. It forms the community of Drylaw–Telford. Drylaw used to belong to the younger branch of the Foresters of Corstorphine. Formerly the estate of Drylaw House, built in 1718, the home of the Loch family, the area became the site of a major housing scheme in the 1950s designed to rehouse the occupants of Leith. It is on the A902 road. Its name comes from the Scots language and means "hill without a spring". Buildings seeBuildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford McWilliam and Walker *Old Drylaw House, now ruinous, a small mansion dating from the early 17th century *Drylaw House, a classical mansion dating from 1718 with alterations of 1786 *Drylaw Parish Church, by Sir William Kininmonth 1956 Notable residents * Baron Loch of Drylaw *Admiral Francis Erskine Loch (1788–1868) born and raised in Drylaw House *Graham Hastings of the band Young Fathers Youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Erskine Loch
Admiral Francis Erskine Loch (April 1788–13 February 1868) was a senior commander in the Royal Navy during the early 19th century. He served as naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria. Life He was born in April 1788 in Drylaw House north of Edinburgh (now within the city boundary) the son of George Loch (1749–1788) and his wife Mary Adam, daughter of John Adam of the Adam family of architects. He entered the Royal Navy on 1 September 1799 aged eleven as a cabin boy under Captain Andrew Todd on in the Mediterranean with the fleet of Lord Keith. On 17 March 1800 Loch narrowly escaped death when the ship was destroyed by fire and blew up killing 673 men off the Italian coast near Leghorn. Loch was one of the few survivors. Loch served as a midshipman aboard , aad . He was present at the blockade of Genoa in May 1800 aboard ''Minotaur''. Still with Lord Keith's fleet, he joined under Captain John Stewart. He was placed on the island of Rhodes overseeing the equipping o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Loch
Baron Loch, of Drylaw in the County of Midlothian (now part of Edinburgh), was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1895 for the soldier and colonial administrator Sir Henry Loch. He was the son of James Loch, Member of Parliament for Wick Burghs. Lord Loch was succeeded by his son, the second Baron. He was a Major-General in the British Army and also held political office as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard in 1924 and between 1929 and 1931. His two sons, the third and fourth Barons, both succeeded to the title. George Henry, 3rd Baron Loch, served in the 11th Hussars and left the army as a major. After his fourth marriage to Sylvia (née Cameron), he was best known as an international riding instructor. The barony became extinct on the death of his brother Spencer in 1991. Barons Loch (1895) *Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch, (23 May 1827 – 20 June 1900) was a British soldier and colonial administrator. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Fathers
Young Fathers are a Scottish band based in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2014, they won the Mercury Prize for their album ''Dead''. History Formed in Edinburgh in 2008 by Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and Graham 'G' Hastings, the group started performing in nightclubs when the band members were all in their teens. In 2012, they signed to LA-based label Anticon and released their introductory mixtapes, ''Tape One'' and '' Tape Two'', with '' Tape Two'' winning the Scottish Album of the Year Award ("The SAY Award"). The trio then signed to Big Dada and released their debut album, ''Dead'', which was released in 2014. The album gained a lot of critical attention and went on to win the Mercury Prize. ''Dead'' entered the UK albums chart at the 35th position and topped the independent UK album chart. Following an extensive world tour the band decamped to Berlin to begin work on their second album, ''White Men Are Black Men Too'', which was released in April 2015. In June 2017 Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburgh West (UK Parliament Constituency)
Edinburgh West is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, first contested at the 1885 general election. Prior to the 2005 general election, the boundaries were the same as the eponymous constituency of the Scottish Parliament, which had been created in 1999. This commuter belt seat, distinctively in the city, was Unionist/Conservative for over 65 years, from the 1931 general election until the 1997 general election, although the Liberal/SDP Alliance and later the Liberal Democrats repeatedly came close to winning in the 1980s and early 1990s. After 1997, the seat was held by the Liberal Democrats until the 2015 general election. The Member of Parliament (MP) between the 2015 and 2017 general elections was Michelle Thomson, who was elected for the Scottish National Party (SNP) in May 2015. In September 2015, she resigned the party whip and sat as an Independent. Thomson chose not to seek reelection either for the SNP or a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackhall, Edinburgh
Blackhall is a suburb in the north west of the Scottish capital city Edinburgh. It is a mainly residential area with amenities including a library and a small number of shops. Geography Most of the housing in the neighbourhood was constructed in the inter-war period, although the recent housing boom has seen new development on the north east slope of Corstorphine Hill. This development went ahead despite considerable opposition from the local community and an unusual planning quirk which allowed the development to go ahead based on forty-year-old outline permission. Blackhall has numerous community and church-based groups including a bowling club, two Probus Clubs, and a horticultural society. There is a local community council, Craigleith/Blackhall, that serves the area. Etymology According to Stuart Harris in ''The Place Names Of Edinburgh'' the "Black-" in the placename could derive either from the Anglian ''blaec'' or Scots ''blac'' meaning simply black, and the " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granton, Edinburgh
Granton is a district in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland. Granton forms part of Edinburgh's waterfront along the Firth of Forth and is, historically, an industrial area having a large harbour. Granton is part of Edinburgh's large scale waterfront regeneration programme. Name Granton first appears on maps in the seventeenth century relating to the now-demolished Granton Castle. The name also appears in Granton Burn, which now runs through Caroline Park down to what was Granton Beach. The name is presumed to come from Grant's Town or Grant's Dun (hill). Granton Castle Granton Castle is first documented in 1479, as a building owned by John Melville of Carnbee, Fife. It stood to the north-west of the current mansion, Caroline Park. On John's death it passed to his son, also John Melville, who was one of the many Scottish nobility killed at the Battle of Flodden. In 1592 it was sold by the Melville family to John Russell but by 1619 was acquired by Sir Thomas Hope, the Lord Adv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Community Council Areas In Scotland
This is a list of community council areas established in each of the council areas of Scotland. As of 2012–3, there are 1,369 community council areas in Scotland, of which 1,129 (82%) have active community councils. There are also 3 Neighbourhood Representative Structures established in Dundee as alternatives to community councils. Scottish community councils date from 1976, when they were established by district council and islands council schemes created under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The same act had established a two-tier system of local government in Scotland consisting of regional and district councils, except for the islands councils, which were created as unitary local authorities. The Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 abolished regional and district councils and transferred responsibility for community council schemes to new unitary councils created by the same act. Aberdeen City As of October 2021, there are 30 community council areas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loch (surname)
Loch is the surname of a Scottish Lowlands family whose members have included: *George Loch of Drylaw (1749-1788), Edinburgh land-owner *James Loch (1780–1855), Scottish estate commissioner and later a Member of Parliament * John Loch (1781–1868), Chairman of the East India Company *George Loch (1811–1887), Member of Parliament *Henry Loch, 1st Baron Loch (1827–1900), Scottish soldier and colonial administrator *Edward Loch, 2nd Baron Loch (1873–1942), senior British Army officer *Joice NanKivell Loch (1887–1982), Australian author, journalist and humanitarian *Kenneth Loch (1890–1961), Lieutenant-General, a Scottish soldier and defence planner *Tam Dalyell, born Thomas Dalyell Loch, a Scottish politician; Labour Member of Parliament from 1962 to 2005 Loch is also a German surname: *Christoph Loch, Director (Dean) of Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge *Felix Loch (born 1989), German luger and Olympic champion * Hans Loch (1898-1960), East Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scots Language
Scots ( endonym: ''Scots''; gd, Albais, ) is an Anglic language variety in the West Germanic language family, spoken in Scotland and parts of Ulster in the north of Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots). Most commonly spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, Northern Isles and northern Ulster, it is sometimes called Lowland Scots or Broad Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Goidelic Celtic language that was historically restricted to most of the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides and Galloway after the 16th century. Modern Scots is a sister language of Modern English, as the two diverged independently from the same source: Early Middle English (1150–1300). Scots is recognised as an indigenous language of Scotland, a regional or minority language of Europe, as well as a vulnerable language by UNESCO. In the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 Scottish Census, over 1.5 million people in Scotland reported being able to speak Scots. As there are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Kininmonth (architect)
Sir William Hardie Kininmonth (8 November 1904 – 1988) was a Scottish architect whose work mixed a modern style with Scottish vernacular. Biography Kininmonth was born in Forfar, Angus. He was educated at Dunfermline High School and later, George Watson's College in Edinburgh. His first architectural training was with William Thomson of Leith, where he was articled. From 1925 to 1929 he also attended classes at Edinburgh College of Art under John Begg, where he first met Basil Spence, then a fellow student. With Spence, Kininmonth spent a year as an assistant in the office of Sir Edwin Lutyens in London, working on designs for the Viceroy's House in New Delhi, and attending evening classes at The Bartlett under Albert Richardson. Returning to Edinburgh, Kininmonth took a teaching post at Edinburgh College of Art, becoming a senior lecturer in 1939. In 1931, Kininmonth set up in practice with Basil Spence, working from a single room in the office of Rowand Anderson & Paul in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburgh
Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh is Scotland's List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, second-most populous city, after Glasgow, and the List of cities in the United Kingdom, seventh-most populous city in the United Kingdom. Recognised as the capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century, Edinburgh is the seat of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament and the Courts of Scotland, highest courts in Scotland. The city's Holyrood Palace, Palace of Holyroodhouse is the official residence of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, British monarchy in Scotland. The city has long been a centre of education, particularly in the fields of medicine, Scots law, Scottish law, literature, philosophy, the sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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