X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Cleland, North Lanarkshire


Jim Rodger

Jim Rodger (born 15 September 1933 in Cleland, Lanarkshire) is a Scottish former football player.

Sydney Devine

Sydney Devine (born Cleland, Lanarkshire 1940) is a Scottish singer whose career began with a television appearance in 1953 at the age of thirteen, developed during eight years touring with the White Heather Group.


American Type Founders

The work was well done, but slow, and only four faces (Wedding Text, Thompson Quill Script, Bernhard Fashion, and T.M. Cleland’s border designs) were ever issued before Kingsley/ATF sought bankruptcy protection in 1993.

Battle of Dunkeld

Dunkeld was not protected by a town wall, so Cleland ordered his troops to take up defensive positions in the cathedral, which was surrounded by an enclosing wall, and the nearby mansion of the Marquess of Atholl.

Bothwellhaugh Roman Fort

Bothwellhaugh Roman Fort, known as Clotagenium ("Clyde-mouth") to the Romans is the remains of a Roman legionary fort in North Lanarkshire near Glasgow.

Chic Calderwood

Chic Calderwood (1 September 1937 – 12 November 1966) was a Scottish light-heavyweight boxer from Craigneuk in North Lanarkshire, Scotland who was active from 1957 to 1966.

Cleland

Cleland railway station, the Network Rail train station located in the abovementioned village

DTT

Dithiothreitol, the common name for a small-molecule redox reagent known as Cleland's reagent

Dunbartonshire

Cumbernauld was not included in either of the new Dunbartonshire councils, instead being placed in the North Lanarkshire area.

Episcopal Diocese of Georgia

Finally, on November 11, 1891 the Rev. Cleland Kinchloch Nelson, rector of Church of the Nativity in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was elected.

Gordon J. Lithgow

Lithgow grew up in Newarthill in North Lanarkshire, traditionally a mining village, and attended Newarthill Primary School and Braidhurst High School, Motherwell.

Hillend Loch

Hillend Loch is a lake located to the east of Caldercruix in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Ian McKechnie

Ian Hector McKechnie (born 4 October 1941 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire) is a Scottish former footballer, who played as a goalkeeper.

James Burns, 3rd Baron Inverclyde

James Cleland Burns, 3rd Baron Inverclyde, (14 February 1864 – 16 August 1919) was second son of John Burns, the first Lord Inverclyde, and grandson of Sir George Burns, 1st Baronet, the founder of the Cunard Line.

John Cleland

Josiah Beckwith in 1781 said, after meeting him, that it was "no wonder" that he was supposed a "sodomite." Cleland died unmarried in 1789 and was buried in St. Margaret's churchyard in London.

Lanarkshire

The old area of Lanarkshire is now mainly occupied by the council areas of North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire.

Margaret Herbison

She was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for North Lanarkshire at the 1945 general election, defeating the Conservative incumbent, future Deputy Speaker of the House William Anstruther-Gray.

Robert Hardy Cleland

On February 20, 1990, Cleland was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan vacated by James Paul Churchill.

Shottskirk

Shottskirk otherwise known as Kirk O' Shotts Parish Church is a local parish church located in Salsburgh North Lanarkshire and serves the village of Salsburgh, town of Shotts and the hamlets in between.

Thomas Cannon

A son of Robert Cannon, Dean of Lincoln, Cannon had a serious falling out with Cleland which indirectly led to his prosecution.


see also