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Seven Incorporated Trades Of Aberdeen
Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen is an ancient society of craftsmen in Aberdeen, Scotland. Their home is Trinity Hall on the city's Holburn Street. Composition The society comprises seven trades: * Hammermen (1519) * Bakers (1398) * Wrights and Coopers (1527) * Tailors (1511) * Shoemakers (1484 and 1520) * Weavers (pre 1222) * Fleshers (1534) History The first Deacon Convenor of the joint seven trades was George Elphinstone, a saddler in the Guild of Hammermen, appointed in June 1587. In an effort to alleviate disputes between the various trades this body was created and created what was known as the Aberdeen Magna Carta, a charter drawn up to agree processes and settlement of disputes ratified in August 1587 and raised to the status of a Royal Charter by King James VI on 16 July 1617. Notable Patrons * Dr William Guild 1632 to 1657 * Rev Dr Thomas Blackwell 1716 to 1728 * Very Rev James Sherriffs 1785 to 1814 * Rev Dr William Laurence Brown 1824 to 1828 * Very Rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity Hall, Aberdeen (geograph 3353835)
Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen is an ancient society of craftsmen in Aberdeen, Scotland. Their home is Trinity Hall on the city's Holburn Street. Composition The society comprises seven trades: * Hammermen (1519) * Bakers (1398) * Wrights and Coopers (1527) * Tailors (1511) * Shoemakers (1484 and 1520) * Weavers (pre 1222) * Fleshers (1534) History The first Deacon Convenor of the joint seven trades was George Elphinstone, a saddler in the Guild of Hammermen, appointed in June 1587. In an effort to alleviate disputes between the various trades this body was created and created what was known as the Aberdeen Magna Carta, a charter drawn up to agree processes and settlement of disputes ratified in August 1587 and raised to the status of a Royal Charter by King James VI on 16 July 1617. Notable Patrons * Dr William Guild 1632 to 1657 * Rev Dr Thomas Blackwell 1716 to 1728 * Very Rev James Sherriffs 1785 to 1814 * Rev Dr William Laurence Brown 1824 to 1828 * Ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aberdeen
Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and has a population estimate of for the city of Aberdeen, and for the local council area making it the United Kingdom's 39th most populous built-up area. The city is northeast of Edinburgh and north of London, and is the northernmost major city in the United Kingdom. Aberdeen has a long, sandy coastline and features an oceanic climate, with cool summers and mild, rainy winters. During the mid-18th to mid-20th centuries, Aberdeen's buildings incorporated locally quarried grey granite, which may sparkle like silver because of its high mica content. Since the discovery of North Sea oil in 1969, Aberdeen has been known as the offshore oil capital of Europe. Based upon the discovery of prehistoric villages around the mouths of the rivers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. It also contains more than 790 islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Most of the population, including the capital Edinburgh, is concentrated in the Central Belt—the plain between the Scottish Highlands and the Southern Uplands—in the Scottish Lowlands. Scotland is divided into 32 administrative subdivisions or local authorities, known as council areas. Glasgow City is the largest council area in terms of population, with Highland being the largest in terms of area. Limited self-governing power, covering matters such as education, social services and roads and transportation, is devolved from the Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Trades Hall Aberdeen McAleese
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James VI
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William Guild
William Guild (1586–1657) was a Scottish minister, academic and theological writer. Life He was the second son of Marjorie (born Donaldson) and Matthew Guild, a wealthy armourer and hammerman of Aberdeen, and Deacon of the Guild of Hammermen and his wife, Marion Robertson. William had three sisters including the philanthropist Jean Guild who was baptised in 1573. He was born in Aberdeen, and was educated at Marischal College graduating MA around 1602. He received licence to preach as a Church of Scotland minister by the Presbytery of Aberdeen in May 1605, and in 1608 was ordained minister of the parish of King Edward in Aberdeenshire. Two years later his wealth was increased by his marriage with Katherine Rolland or Rowen of Disblair, Aberdeenshire. In 1617, during the visit of James I to Scotland, Guild was in Edinburgh, and was a member of the assembly which met in the music school of that city, and protested for the liberties of the kirk; the temper of the king was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Blackwell (scholar)
Thomas Blackwell the younger (4 August 17016 March 1757) was a classical scholar, historian and "one of the major figures in the Scottish Enlightenment." Life He was born on 4 August 1701 in the city of Aberdeen, son of Rev Dr Thomas Blackwell (1660–1728), ministers of the Kirk of St Nicholas in Aberdeen and later Principal of Marischal College and his wife Christian Johnston (d.1749). His father was Patron of the Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen from 1714 to 1728. He attended the Grammar School of his native place and studied Greek and philosophy at Marischal College, graduating M.A. in 1718. He was presented to the chair of Greek at Marischal in 1723, becoming the college's principal on 7 October 1748. Blackwell was a well regarded professor and taught a number of important Enlightenment figures including Principal George Campbell, Robert Chambers, Alexander Gerard, and James Beattie, He strongly influenced James Macpherson, the godfather as it were of Ossian, Lord M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Sherriffs
James Sherriffs or Shirreffs (1752–1830) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1807. Life He was born in Aberdeen in 1752 the son of David Sherriffs. He was educated locally then studied at Aberdeen University graduating MA in 1770. He was initially a schoolmaster at Aberdeen Grammar School. In 1776 he was licensed to preach by the Church of Scotland and in 1779 received patronage and was ordained in St Nicholas Kirk in Aberdeen. In 1795 the university awarded him an honorary doctorate (DD) and in the same year he was appointed 11th Patron to the Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen. He lived his final years at “Friendville” in Aberdeen.Aberdeen Post Office Directory 1824-25 He died on 28 March 1830. Family On 28 September 1790 he married Amelia Morison. Publications *''An Inquiry into the Life of Dr William Guild William Guild (1586–1657) was a Scottish minister, academic and theological writer. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Laurence Brown
William Laurence Brown (7 January 175511 May 1830) was a Scottish minister. Life Brown was born in Utrecht in the Netherlands. His father, William Brown, was minister of the English church there, but was then appointed professor of ecclesiastical history at St Andrews, and therefore returned to Scotland in 1757. Brown went to the grammar school there, and then to the university, graduating MA in 1772. After passing through the divinity classes, in 1774 he went to the University of Utrecht, where he studied theology and civil law. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of St Andrews in October 1777 and he was appointed minister the Scots Church in Utrecht in place of his uncle Robert Brown in January 1778. The University awarded him a Doctor of Divinity in 1784. In 1788 he was appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy and Law of Nations (International Law) at the University of Utrecht. To this was added the professorship of the law of nature. He was made Rector of the Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitford Mitchell
James Robert Mitford Mitchell (1843–1914) was a Scottish minister. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1907. He was Chaplain in Ordinary in Scotland to both Queen Victoria and King Edward VII. Life He was born on 20 February 1843 in Inverness the son of the civil engineer, Joseph Mitchell and educated at Inverness Academy and Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh. He studied divinity at Edinburgh and Cambridge University. He was ordained as a Church of Scotland minister at Kirkmichael in August 1868. He was translated to Paisley Abbey in September 1875. He was further translated to the West Kirk of St Nicholas in Aberdeen in February 1878. In September 1888 he took on the additional role as Chaplain to Queen Victoria in Scotland and on her death he became Chaplain to King Edward VII. He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity by Aberdeen University in February 1892. In 1883 he presented a marble bust of his father, by Alexander Munro to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Adam Smith
:''Note in particular that this George Smith is to be distinguished from George Smith (Assyriologist) (1840–1876) who researched in some overlapping areas.'' Sir George Adam Smith (19 October 1856 – 3 March 1942) was a Scottish theologian. Life He was born in Calcutta, where his father, George Smith, C.I.E., was then Principal of the Doveton College, a boys' school in Madras. His mother was Janet Colquhoun Smith (née Adam). By 1870 the family had returned to Scotland and were living at Scagore House in Seafield, Edinburgh. He was educated at Edinburgh in the Royal High School. He then studied Divinity at the University of Edinburgh and the New College, graduating MA in 1875. After studying for summer semesters as a postgraduate at the University of Tübingen (1876) and the University of Leipzig (1878) and travelling in Egypt and Syria, he was ordained into the Free Church of Scotland in 1882 and served at the Queen's Cross Free Church in Aberdeen. In 1892 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Main (minister)
Alan Main (born 1936) is a retired minister of the Church of Scotland. Life He was born in Aberdeen in 1936. He was educated at Robert Gordon's College then studied divinity at Aberdeen University from 1954. In 1960 he travelled to the US to study at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. He was ordained in 1963 and served as minister at Chapel of Garioch Parish Church, Aberdeenshire, 1963–1970 and was then appointed as chaplain to the University of Aberdeen. He was professor of practical theology at the University of Aberdeen, 1980–2001, and was also master of Christ's College, Aberdeen, 1992–2001. He has served as minister in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for the year 1998/1999. His formal title (following the end of his Moderatorial year) is the Very Reverend Professor Alan Main. From 2000 to 2013 he was patron of the Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen. He was president of the Boys' Brigade 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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