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Denholm
Denholm is a small village located between Jedburgh and Hawick in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland, UK. The estimated population of Denholm is 600. There is a village green in the centre. It lies in the valley of the River Teviot. Denholm is a Conservation Area listed as 'a planned village as opposed to the traditional unplanned or organic form of village usually found in Roxburghshire.' The village of Denholm is situated in Teviotdale, about halfway between the towns of Hawick and Jedburgh. It lies in gentle rolling countryside between Rubers Law and the Minto Hills, volcanic outcrops which thrust up through the underlying Old Red Sandstone. The original settlement of 'Denum' was sited 'at the valleys' where the broad valley of the River Teviot meets the narrow glen of the Dean Burn. The early hamlet was plundered and burnt during English raids of the 16th century. The village we see today dates from the 17th century when it was laid out around the Green. The popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westgate Hall, Denholm
Westgate Hall is located in Westgate in the village of Denholm, Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders. It stands at the western and south-western approaches to the village. Dating from the 17th century (the date 1663 appears above the door), it is an example of a building of that period that was once common in Scotland and is now a category A listed building. History When Sir Archibald Douglas succeeded to the barony of Cavers in the 1380s, he granted the lower part including Denholm, to Thomas Cranston. He was the ancestor of the Cranstons appearing in the Lay of the Last Minstrel, the poem by Sir Walter Scott. But in 1658, the baron of Cavers, also called Sir Archibald Douglas, repurchased these lands and added them back to the barony. The castle of the Cranstons in Denholm was either built anew or renovated, around 1664. The name Westgate Hall was used to distinguish it from another building, East Castle, on the east side of the village on the road to Jedburgh. It is a two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Borders
The Scottish Borders is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by West Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian, and East Lothian to the north, the North Sea to the east, Dumfries and Galloway to the south-west, South Lanarkshire to the west, and the English Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial counties of Cumbria and Northumberland to the south. The largest settlement is Galashiels, and the administrative centre is Newtown St Boswells. The term "Scottish Borders" is also used for the areas of southern Scotland and northern England that bound the Anglo-Scottish border, namely Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders, Northumberland, and Cumbria. The council area occupies approximately the same area as the Shires of Scotland, historic shires of Berwickshire, Peeblesshire, Roxburghshire, and Selkirkshire. History The term Border country, Borders sometimes has a wider use, referring to all of the Counties of Scotland, counties adjoining the English border, also includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts And Crafts Movement
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. Initiated in reaction against the perceived impoverishment of the decorative arts and the conditions in which they were produced, the movement flourished in Europe and North America between about 1880 and 1920. Some consider that it is the root of the Modern Style, a British expression of what later came to be called the Art Nouveau movement. Others consider that it is the incarnation of Art Nouveau in England. Others consider Art and Crafts to be in opposition to Art Nouveau. Arts and Crafts indeed criticized Art Nouveau for its use of industrial materials such as iron. In Japan, it emerged in the 1920s as the Mingei movement. It stood for traditional craftsmanship, and often used medieval, romantic, or folk styles of decoration. It advoca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Places In The Scottish Borders
''Map of places in the Scottish Borders compiled from this list'':See the list of places in Scotland for places in other counties. This list of places in the Scottish Borders includes towns, villages, hamlet (place), hamlets, castles, golf courses, historic houses, hillforts, lighthouses, nature reserves, reservoirs, rivers, and other places of interest in the Scottish Borders Council areas of Scotland, council area of Scotland. A *Abbey Mill, Scottish Borders, Abbey Mill *Abbey St. Bathans *Abbotsford Ferry railway station, Abbotsford House *Abbotrule *Addinston *Aikwood Tower *Ale Water *Alemoor Loch *Allanbank, Scottish Borders, Allanbank *Allanshaugh *Allanshaws *Allanton, Scottish Borders, Allanton *Ancrum, Ancrum Old Parish Church *Anglo-Scottish Border *Appletreehall *Ashiestiel *Ashkirk *Auchencrow *Ayton, Scottish Borders, Ayton, Ayton Castle, Scottish Borders, Ayton Castle, Ayton Parish Church, Ayton railway station B *Baddinsgill, Baddins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Johnstone (artist)
William Johnstone OBE (1897–1981) was a Scottish artist and writer, and Principal of Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1947 to 1960. Life Johnstone was born in 1897 in Denholm in the Scottish Borders and grew up to a farming family. After the First World War he gave up the life of a farmer to go to Edinburgh College of Art. Here he met the poet Hugh MacDiarmid who shared many of his political and artistic ideals. Together they formed the concept of the Scottish Renaissance to release the nation from its cultural poverty under a centralised British arts scene. Johnstone travelled to Paris in his youth, which opened him to the ideas of modernism. He also spent time in the US, where he became interested in Native American cave paintings for their deemed naïve simplicity. During World War II Johnstone became culturally despondent, turning away from practising art to become a teacher, a role which occupied much of his professional life. In 1938 until 1945 he served as the Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Scott (botanist)
John Scott FLS (5 April 1836–11 June 1880) was a Scottish botanist and gardener. Born at Denholm, he was the gardener at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, before becoming foreman of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1859. He emigrated to India in 1864, with the patronage of Charles Darwin, becoming curator of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1865. While in India he carried out numerous botanical experiments and observations on behalf of Darwin. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1873 and died at Garvald, East Lothian Garvald is a village south-east of Haddington in East Lothian, Scotland. It lies on the Papana Water south of the B6370, east of Gifford. The combined parish of Garvald and Bara, borders Whittingehame to the East, Morham to the North, Yest .... References * '' Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh'' 14 (1883): 160–1 * https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/namedef-4258 {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Oliver Murray
Charles Oliver Murray (1842 – 11 December 1923) was a Scottish artist and printmaker. Born in the village of Denholm in Roxburghshire in 1842, Murray trained at the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh and moved to London by 1872. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Painter-Etchers on 7 May 1881. He had his work published widely in both ''The Portfolio'' and ''The Art Journal'' from the 1870s onwards, and frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1872 onwards. Murray died in London on 11 December 1923.Obituary, ''Evening Telegraph ''Evening Telegraph'' is a common newspaper name, and may refer to: * ''Evening Telegraph'' (Dundee), Scotland * ''Evening Telegraph'' (Dublin), Ireland, published 1871–1924. * ''Coventry Evening Telegraph'', England, now the ''Coventry Telegr ...'' undee 14 December 1923, p. 8. Works File:John Quartley's Battle of Towton.jpg, Murray's engraving of John Quartley's Battle of Towton File:Charles Oliver Murray.png, Magdalen College Oxford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Murray (lexicographer)
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (; 7 February 1837 – 26 July 1915) was a British Lexicography, lexicographer and Philology, philologist. He was the primary editor of the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') from 1879 until his death. Life and learning James Murray was born in the village of Denholm near Hawick in the Scottish Borders, the eldest son of a draper, Thomas Murray. His brothers included Charles Oliver Murray and A. D. Murray, later editor of the ''Newcastle Daily Journal''. He was christened plain 'James Murray', but in 1855 he assumed the extra names 'Augustus Henry' in order to distinguish himself from other James Murrays in the Hawick area. A precocious child with a voracious appetite for learning, he left school at fourteen because his parents were not able to afford to pay the fees to continue his education. At seventeen he became a teacher at Hawick Grammar School (now Hawick High School) and three years later he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lowrie (geophysicist)
William Lowrie (18 October 1857 – 20 July 1933)Alan W. Black,, ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, 1986, pp 160-161. Retrieved 2009-09-16 was an Australian agricultural educationist. Lowrie was the son of John Lowrie, a shepherd, wife Christina, ''née'' Anderson. Lowrie was born near Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland. Lowrie was brought up on a farm ''Clarilaw'', one of the largest farms in Roxburghshire, and attended school at Blainslie; he later entered the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A. in 1883, and obtaining a Highland and Agricultural Society's bursary in 1884, studied agriculture and graduated B.Sc. in 1886 with a prize in mathematics and several first-class honours. Lowrie lectured on natural science and agriculture at Gordon's College, Aberdeen. In 1887 he was appointed Professor at the Roseworthy Agricultural College, South Australia, after the sacking of John D. Custance, and continued his research into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ainslie Henderson
Ainslie Thomas Henderson (born 28 January 1979) is a Scottish animator and singer-songwriter. He gained fame via his participation in the BBC's television programme, ''Fame Academy'', in 2002''.'' He signed a recording contract with Mercury Records after leaving the show, having been placed fourth. His subsequent single, " Keep Me a Secret", written alongside fellow contestants in Fame Academy, reached the fifth position on the UK Singles Chart. In 2006, Henderson independently released his debut album, '' Growing Flowers by Candlelight'', which consisted of indie rock and acoustic songs. In promotion of the album, he embarked on a series of live music shows in the UK throughout 2007 and 2008. In the same year, Henderson starred in the short film ''Mono'', directed by British screenwriter Richard Smith. In 2009, Henderson took a break from music and attended the Edinburgh College of Art, where he met future collaborator Will Anderson. In 2011, the two collaborated on docume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Duncan (entomologist)
James, Jim, or Jimmy Duncan may refer to: Politicians * James Duncan (Pennsylvania politician) (1756–1844), American politician from Pennsylvania * James Duncan (MP for Barrow-in-Furness) (1858–1911), British lawyer and Liberal politician * James H. Duncan (1793–1869), American politician from Massachusetts *James Hastings Duncan (1855–1928), British Liberal Member of Parliament for Otley, 1900–1918 * Jim Duncan (Alaska politician) (born 1942), former Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives, congressional candidate * Jimmy Duncan (politician) (born 1947), American politician from Tennessee *Sir James Duncan, 1st Baronet (1899–1974), British politician Sportspeople * James Duncan (discus thrower) (1887–1955), American athlete * James Duncan (football left-back) (fl. 1878–1882), Scottish footballer (Alexandra Athletic, Rangers and Scotland) * James Duncan (football outside left) (fl. 1890–1893), Scottish footballer (Sheffield United) *James Duncan (basketbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cavers, Scottish Borders
Cavers is a parish in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former county of Roxburghshire, south and east of Hawick. The largest village in the parish is Denholm. The name means "enclosure". History Robert The Bruce rewarded ‘The Good’ Sir James Douglas with lands spread across Scotland. The Emerald Charter of 1320 does not mention Cavers, although is commonly assumed to include it. Sir James had been Bruce's trusted lieutenant at Bannockburn in 1314, and was key to his power base in southern Scotland. The lands were controlled by James, 2nd Earl of Douglas in right of his wife, and he, like so many other Douglases, was not to die in his bed, but on the field of battle, at Otterburn in 1388. James's sons and (a) daughter(s) were all illegitimate. To ensure their succession, he granted the lands of Drumlanrig (see Marquess of Queensberry) to his bastard son William and it is assumed that Cavers was granted to Archibald, but this happened several years after Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
