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Shawfield Amateurs F
Shawfield is an industrial/commercial area of the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, located to the north of the town centre. It is bordered to the east by the River Clyde, to the north by the Glasgow neighbourhood of Oatlands and the adjacent Richmond Park, to the south-west by Glasgow's Polmadie and Toryglen districts, and to the south-east by Rutherglen's historic Main Street and its Burnhill neighbourhood, although it is separated from these southerly areas by the West Coast Main Line railway tracks and the M74 motorway. A road bridge connects Shawfield to the Dalmarnock, Bridgeton and Glasgow Green areas. Shawfield is a familiar name to many Scottish sports fans, as the stadium of that name is the national venue for greyhound racing and the former home of Clyde F.C. Early history Documentation states that in 1611 the estate of Shawfield was in the hands of the family of Claud Hamilton. His grandson James Hamilton was forced to sell the estate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutherglen And Hamilton West (UK Parliament Constituency)
Rutherglen and Hamilton West is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was created for the 2005 general election. It covers almost all of the former constituency of Glasgow Rutherglen and most of the former constituency of Hamilton South, and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. The current MP is Margaret Ferrier, an independent, who won the seat at the 2019 snap general election. She had previously held the seat from 2015 to 2017. Ferrier was previously a Scottish National Party MP until the whip was withdrawn on 1 October 2020 after an incident relating to a breach of the COVID-19 pandemic regulations. Boundaries The Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency covers part of the South Lanarkshire council area. The rest of the council area is covered by the Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow and Lanark and Hamilton East c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clyde F
Clyde may refer to: People * Clyde (given name) * Clyde (surname) Places For townships see also Clyde Township (other), Clyde Township Australia * Clyde, New South Wales * Clyde, Victoria * Clyde River, New South Wales Canada * Clyde, Alberta * Clyde, Ontario, a town in North Dumfries, Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario * Clyde Township, a geographic township in the municipality of Dysart et al, Ontario * Clyde River, Nunavut New Zealand * Clyde, New Zealand ** Clyde Dam Scotland * Clydeside * River Clyde * Firth of Clyde United States * Clyde, California, a CDP in Contra Costa County * Clyde, Georgia * Clyde Township, Whiteside County, Illinois * Clyde, Iowa * Clyde, Kansas * Clyde, Michigan * Clyde Township, Allegan County, Michigan * Clyde Township, St. Clair County, Michigan * Clyde, New Jersey * Clyde, New York * Clyde, North Carolina * Clyde, North Dakota * Clyde, Ohio ** Clyde cancer cluster * Clyde, Pennsylvania * Clyde, South Carolina * Clyde, Texas * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William James Chrystal
William James Chrystal (20 May 1854 – 21 April 1921) was a Scottish chemist and partner in his family’s chemicals business J & J White Chemicals based in Rutherglen. Ancestors Chrystal was born in Glasgow, son of insurance broker Robert Chrystal and grandson of Dr. William Chrystal (1776–1830), rector of Glasgow Grammar School who died in a boating accident and is remembered with a bust in Glasgow Cathedral. His mother Jean was the daughter of the founder of ''J & J White Chemicals'', John White, and her brothers John and James were also partners from 1840 and 1851 respectively until their deaths in the 1880s. Education and career Chrystal was educated at The Glasgow Academy and the University of Glasgow. He was a fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry and the Chemical Society. After working in a laboratory in the 1870s he joined ''J & J White Chemicals'' as an expert chemist, and after his uncle John died in 1881 he became the technical partner in the busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John White, 1st Baron Overtoun
John Campbell White, 1st Baron Overtoun, (21 November 1843 – 15 February 1908) was a Scottish chemical manufacturer, supporter of religious causes, philanthropist and Liberal politician. He was raised to the peerage by Gladstone in 1893, and in 1905 was granted the Freedom of the City of Rutherglen (where his chemical works was based), following being honoured in the same fashion by Dumbarton two years earlier, in recognition of his philanthropic endeavours. White's persona as a generous and committed Scottish Presbyterian was at odds with his exploitation of the workers at his Shawfield Chemical Works, the source of his great wealth. Politician and leader of the nascent Labour Party, Keir Hardie, exposed the scandalous working conditions there in a series of pamphlets published in 1899 entitled ''White Slaves''. Background and education Lord Overtoun's father, James White of Overtoun (1812–1884) was originally a lawyer, who had left the legal profession to join John & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overtoun House
Overtoun House is a 19th-century country house and estate in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Situated on a hill overlooking the River Clyde, it is north of the village of Milton and east of the town of Dumbarton. The house, an example of Scottish Baronial architecture, was built in the 1860s, and was donated to the people of Dumbarton in 1938. It was subsequently a maternity hospital, and now houses a Christian centre. The house is protected as a category A listed building, while the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland. Landscape features include the Overtoun Bridge on the approach road, designed by H. E. Milner. Estate history White family In 1859, James White, a retired lawyer and a co-owner of the J & J White Chemical Works in Rutherglen, bought Overtoun Farm with the purpose of building a mansion there. He intended for it to be a country retreat, and initially acquired ; he soon increased this to . White hired the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, that occurred during the period from around 1760 to about 1820–1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, the increasing use of steam power and water power, the development of machine tools and the rise of the mechanized factory system. Output greatly increased, and a result was an unprecedented rise in population and in the rate of population growth. Textiles were the dominant industry of the Industrial Revolution in terms of employment, value of output and capital invested. The textile industry was also the first to use modern production methods. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain, and many of the technological and architectural innovations were of British origin. By the mid-18th century, Britain was the world's leadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James White (1812-1884)
James or Jim White may refer to: Military * James White (general) (1747–1821), American pioneer; founded Knoxville, Tennessee * James White (RAF officer) (1893–1972), World War I fighter ace Politics Australian politics * James White (South Australian politician) (1820–1892), land agent and MHA * James White (New South Wales politician) (1828–1890), member of Legislative Assembly, then Council; racehorse owner * James Cobb White (1855–1927), New South Wales politician, member of Legislative Council, nephew of the above * James Wharton White (1857–1930), MHA in South Australia UK politics * James White (English politician) (1809–1883), MP for Plymouth and Brighton * Martin White (politician) (James Martin White, 1857–1928), businessman and Member of Parliament for Forfar * J. D. White (James Dundas White, 1866–1951), Member of Parliament for Dunbartonshire and Glasgow Tradeston * James White (Scottish politician) (1922–2009), MP for Glasgow Pollok * James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bichromate Of Potash
Potassium dichromate, , is a common inorganic chemical reagent, most commonly used as an oxidizing agent in various laboratory and industrial applications. As with all hexavalent chromium compounds, it is acutely and chronically harmful to health. It is a crystalline ionic solid with a very bright, red-orange color. The salt is popular in the laboratory because it is not deliquescent, in contrast to the more industrially relevant salt sodium dichromate.Gerd Anger, Jost Halstenberg, Klaus Hochgeschwender, Christoph Scherhag, Ulrich Korallus, Herbert Knopf, Peter Schmidt, Manfred Ohlinger, "Chromium Compounds" in Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2005. Chemistry Production Potassium dichromate is usually prepared by the reaction of potassium chloride on sodium dichromate. Alternatively, it can be also obtained from potassium chromate by roasting chromite ore with potassium hydroxide. It is soluble in water and in the dissolution process it io ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Cleghorn
Robert Cleghorn MD FRSE FFPSG PRMS (1755 – 18 June 1821) was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Life Little is known of his early life. He is thought to have been born around 1755. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MD in 1783. He was in general medical practice as a GP in Glasgow from 1785, then in 1788 began lecturing in medicine, then in 1791 began lecturing in chemistry. In 1818, he was awarded a professorship in chemistry and materia medica at the University of Glasgow, a role continued until his death. At this point he lived at Spruells Land on the north side of the Trongate. As a physician he worked at the Glasgow Royal Asylum at Gartnavel, and Glasgow Royal Infirmary, previously known as the Old Town Hospital. His position at Gartnavel was filled by Dr John Balmanno. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1790, his proposers being Andrew Dalzell, Dugald Stewart and James Gregory. He died in Shawfie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Campbell Of Shawfield
Walter Campbell, 3rd of Shawfield and Islay and 9th of Skipness (29 December 1741 – 19 October 1816) was a Scottish landowner, advocate and Rector of Glasgow University. Early life Campbell was born on 29 December 1741 into the Clan Campbell of Cawdor. He was a son of John Campbell of Shawfield (1696–1746) and Lady Henrietta Cunningham, who married in 1735. His father had been previously married, without issue, to Lady Margaret Campbell (a daughter of Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun and sister of John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun). His older brothers were Daniel Campbell, 2nd of Shawfield (an MP for Lanarkshire who died unmarried in 1777) and John Campbell, 8th of Skipness. His maternal grandparents were William Cunningham, 12th Earl of Glencairn and Lady Henrietta Stewart (second daughter of Alexander Stewart, 3rd Earl of Galloway and Lady Mary Douglas, a daughter of James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Queensberry). His cousins James and John both became Earls of Glencairn. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islay
Islay ( ; gd, Ìle, sco, Ila) is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Known as "The Queen of the Hebrides", it lies in Argyll just south west of Jura, Scotland, Jura and around north of the Northern Irish coast. The island's capital is Bowmore where the distinctive round Kilarrow Parish Church and a distillery are located. Port Ellen is the main port. Islay is the fifth-largest Scottish island and the eighth-largest List of islands of the British Isles, island of the British Isles, with a total area of almost . There is ample evidence of the prehistoric settlement of Islay and the first written reference may have come in the first century AD. The island had become part of the Gaelic Kingdom of Dál Riata during the Scotland in the Early Middle Ages, Early Middle Ages before being absorbed into the Norse Kingdom of the Isles. The later medieval period marked a "cultural high point" with the transfer of the Hebrides to the Kingdom of Scotland and the eme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Campbell (died 1753)
Daniel Campbell (1671/72 – 1753), or Donald Campbell, of Shawfield and Islay, was a leading Glasgow merchant, slave trader and Member of Parliament, nicknamed "Great Daniel" because of his size and great wealth. Dates Campbell was the eldest son of Walter Campbell of Skipnish, and was born about 1671. In many books of reference he is stated to have been born in 1696 and to have died in 1777, the former date being that of his son John Campbell's birth, and the latter that of his grandson Daniel Campbell's death. Merchant At the age of 22 he set up business in New England, before settling in Glasgow, where he traded tobacco for iron ore. He also engaged in the slave trade and in finance. He was very successful as a merchant, and in 1707 purchased the estate of Shawfield or Schawfield, in Rutherglen, from Sir James Hamilton. He also came to possess the valuable estate of Woodhall, near Holytown. Member of Parliament A follower of the Duke of Argyll, he represented Inverar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
