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Henry de Baliol

William "le Scot" (c1251-c1313), who was the progenitor of the Scot/Scott family of Nettlestead and Scot's Hall in Kent

History of Kingsway College

Lawrence Huntley (1900-1920) grew up on a farm in Scotts Bay, Nova Scotia located next to Cape Split on the Bay of Fundy.


2011 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season

While the majority of competitors are privately funded, Malaysian manufacturer Proton enters a factory team of Super 2000 Proton Satria's for Australian driver Chris Atkinson and Scot Alister McRae.

Alex Arthur

The win established Arthur as a force on the domestic scene and he followed up the victory with two defences against Carl Greaves and fellow Scot Willie Limond.

Baghdad Central Station

The station was built by the British to designs by J M Wilson , a Scot who had been an assistant to Lutyens in New Delhi and who subsequently set up a practice of his own in Baghdad .

Caucasian Shepherd Dog

In a series of Scot Harvath novels by Brad Thor, a featured character known as "the Troll" has two Caucasian Ovcharkas which serve as his guard dogs.

Charles Blahous

Blahous was born in 1963 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA, the second of three children of Charles Paul Blahous II of Czech descent and Marjorie Alice Robertson of Scot/English ancestry.

Christian library

The new idea of a regional, or even a lending library of theological literature was taken even further by a Non-Conformist Scot, James Kirkwood, who proposed the support of such ventures with a property tax.

Ciaran Joyce

Ciaran has also played numerous theatre roles including 'Dandini' in Cinderella, Aladdin, Peter Pan, Hawth Theatre, Gaveroche in Les Misérables, 'Lozzo' in Off The Streets Project, 'Scot' in Brassed Off and Vince in Two Princes, both the latter for Theatr Clwyd.

Cornelius van Zierikzee

John Richardson, a graduate of the University of Paris, was a Scot; they were received with enthusiasm by all classes.

Daniel Defoe

In despair, he wrote to William Paterson the London Scot and founder of the Bank of England and part instigator of the Darien scheme, who was in the confidence of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, leading minister and spymaster in the English Government.

Death Defying Acts

Impoverished and uneducated Scottish con artist Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her daughter Benji (Saoirse Ronan) set their sights on Houdini's reward when he visits Edinburgh on tour.

Fred Holstein

Fred began playing around Chicago in the 1960s, first at places like the Old Town Pub and a bar in Morton Grove called Scot's Cellar.

George Scot of Pitlochie

George Scot or Scott (died 1685) of Pitlochie, Fife was a Scottish writer on colonisation in North America.

Gorebridge

Annette Crosbie, known to many as the long suffering wife of Victor Meldrew, played by fellow Scot Richard Wilson in the BBC comedy series One Foot in the Grave, is a former resident of Gorebridge.

Groundskeeping

Groundskeeper Willie is a gruff speaking Scot in the television animated series The Simpsons.

Henry Dyer

He was the first Scot to win the Whitworth scholarship awarded in 1868, which was for the further instruction of young men gifted in the practice and theory of mechanics.

James Aitken

John the Painter (1752–1777), also known as James Aitken, Scot who committed acts of terror in British naval dockyards in 1776–77

John Aitkin

John the Painter (1752–1777), Scot who committed acts of terror in British naval dockyards in 1776–77

John Romilly Allen

John Romilly Allen FSA FSA(Scot.) (9 June 1847 - 5 July 1907) was a British archaeologist.

Krestovsky Island

Svetlana Kuznetsova, is the best-known contemporary Russian tennis player coming from the Krestovsky island tennis tradition of Russian champions, started by the Scot MacPherson, his sons as well as Mikhail Sumarakoff-Elston and George Bray in the late 19th century.

Maybury

There is also a large Marriott chain hotel here (previously The Royal Scot), and The Gyle Shopping Centre is nearby.

Murder at Cherry Hill

Whenever they communicated in jail, Elsie reminded him that had he not confessed, the two might have gotten off scot-free in Montreal, as they had been planning to escape there.

Necroscope

Miranda Horner, Daniel Scot Palter, Brian Sean Perry and Jesse VanValkenburg.

Northumbrian smallpipes

William A. Cocks; F. S. A. Scot, The Galpin Society Journal, Vol.

Ontario Veterinary College

The Ontario Veterinary College was established in Toronto in 1862, by the Scot Andrew Smith, a graduate of the Royal School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh.

Richard Oram

Professor Richard D. Oram F.S.A. (Scot.) is a Scottish historian.

Ron Scot Fry

Ron Scot Fry is the former entertainment and artistic director of the Bristol Renaissance Faire.

Scot Davis

Scot Davis is the current wrestling head coach at Owatonna High School in Minnesota.

Scot McCloughan

Scot McCloughan is the former General Manager of the San Francisco 49ers.

Shoebox Zoo

The series makes good use of its Lothian setting, with significant locations including the University of Edinburgh library, Tantallon Castle (Scot's home), Boroughmuir High School and St Giles Cathedral, while Toledo makes his base in the clock tower of the Balmoral Hotel.

Uniq plc

In 1973 it acquired Scot Bowyers, a meat-processing company Scot Bowyers, in 1975 United States-based Italian cheese manufacturer Frigo, and in 1978 US specialty cheesemaker, Gardenia.

Varina Tjon-A-Ten

Her paternal grandfather came from mainland China to Suriname, but she herself is a moksi watra (mixed blood): one of her great-grandmothers was a Brahmin Indian from British Guyana who married a Scot, and she also has Dutch and Jewish ancestry.

Washington State Route 704

The second location is southeast of Lake Mondress, where the alignment skirts the northern edge of a prairie habitat mostly invaded by Scot’s broom.

Woodperry House

After being owned by Farzaneh and Kaveh Moussavi, it was sold to Scot and Michele Young in May 1997 who sold it on to the Flemish family Pierre Lagrange, one of the founders of GLG Partners.


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