Learmonth may refer to:
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George-Yuri Andreevich Learmonth (1590s–1633) was a
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
soldier in
Russian service.
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Ian Learmonth
Ian Learmonth QPM is a retired senior British police officer, his final position was the Chief Constable of Kent Police.
Ian Learmonth was born in Edinburgh in 1958 and is married with children and a grandchild.
Learmonth policed since star ...
, British police officer
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James Rögnvald Learmonth (1895–1967), Scottish surgeon
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John Learmonth
John Learmonth of Dean, DL FRSE (26 May 1789 – 17 December 1858) was Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1831 to 1833. He was co-funder of the Dean Bridge project in western Edinburgh and gives his name to many of the streets in Comely Bank, the ...
of Dean,
Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1831–33, after whom the Learmonth district of Edinburgh is named.
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Noel Fulford Learmonth
Noel Fulford Learmonth (pronounced LAIR'muth) (1880–1970) was an Australian writer, sheep farmer, naturalist, amateur historian and amateur ornithologist. For most of his life he lived in Portland, Victoria or nearby at Tyrendarra.
With othe ...
(1880–1970), Australian author, historian and naturalist
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Okill Massey Learmonth VC, MC (1894–1917), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross
* Thomas Learmonth, also known as
Thomas the Rhymer
Sir Thomas de Ercildoun, better remembered as Thomas the Rhymer (fl. c. 1220 – 1298), also known as Thomas Learmont or True Thomas, was a Scottish laird and reputed prophet from Earlston (then called "Erceldoune") in the Borders. Thomas ...
(c.1220–c.1298), Scottish laird
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Thomas Livingstone Learmonth
Thomas Livingstone Learmonth of Parkhill (2 May 1818 – 28 October 1903) was an early settler of Australia, of Scots descent, who established himself as a squatter on land around Ballarat, Victoria, in the 1830s.
Life
He was born simply Tho ...
(1818–1903), early Victorian settler who established land around Ballarat, Victoria
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Tom Livingstone-Learmonth (1906-1931), British hurdler
;Places
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Learmonth, Edinburgh, a district of the Scottish capital
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Learmonth, Victoria, Australia
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RAAF Learmonth
RAAF Base Learmonth, also known as Learmonth Airport , is a joint use Royal Australian Air Force base and civil airport. It is located near the town of Exmouth on the north-west coast of Western Australia. RAAF Base Learmonth is one of the RAA ...
, Royal Australian Air Force base near Exmouth on the north-west coast of Western Australia
See also
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Clan Learmonth, a Scottish clan (armigerous clan)
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Learmonth, noble family of Scottish origin.
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Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (; russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjurʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲɛrməntəf; – ) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucas ...
, (1814 – 1841) was a Russian
Romantic
Romantic may refer to:
Genres and eras
* The Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement of the 18th and 19th centuries
** Romantic music, of that era
** Romantic poetry, of that era
** Romanticism in science, of that e ...
writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...
's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian
Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...
. Family was branch of the Scottish clan Learmonth, and can be traced to Yuri (George) Learmonth, a Scottish officer in the
Polish-Lithuanian service who settled in Russia in the middle of the 17th century. George Learmonth was a descent from the famed 13th-century
Scottish poet Thomas Learmonth
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