• Houstoun is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John Houstoun (1744 – 1796), American lawyer and statesman from Savannah, Georgia Dr....
    631 bytes (99 words) - 12:41, 17 August 2017
  • Thumbnail for William Houstoun (lawyer)
    William Houstoun, also spelled Houston (/ˈhaʊstən/ HOW-stən; c. 1755 – March 17, 1813), was a Founding Father of the United States, statesman, and lawyer...
    7 KB (593 words) - 20:20, 3 November 2024
  • William Houstoun may refer to: William Houstoun (botanist) (1695–1733), British surgeon and botanist William Houston (1746–1788), American teacher and...
    433 bytes (78 words) - 13:39, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Houstoun
    John Houstoun (/ˈhoʊstən/ HOU-stən; August 31, 1744 – July 20, 1796) was an American lawyer and statesman from Savannah, Georgia. He was one of the original...
    9 KB (887 words) - 10:32, 9 October 2024
  • The Houstoun, later Houstoun-Boswall Baronetcy, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The title was created on 19 July 1836 for General Sir...
    4 KB (499 words) - 19:55, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Michael Houstoun
    Michael James Houstoun CNZM (born 20 October 1952) is a concert pianist from New Zealand. He has twice in his life performed the complete cycle of Beethoven...
    8 KB (549 words) - 05:19, 5 June 2024
  • George Houston (31 July 1810 – 14 September 1843) was a Scottish politician. Houston lived at Johnstone Castle. He stood at the 1835 UK general election...
    950 bytes (95 words) - 12:43, 13 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Houston Street
    pronounced "HYOO-stən" ("/ˈhjuːstən/"). The street was named for William Houstoun, whose surname was pronounced "HOW-stən", while the city was named for...
    13 KB (1,251 words) - 15:32, 11 October 2024
  • to 925. The Harrodian school was founded by Lady Eliana and Sir Alford Houstoun-Boswall with 65 pupils and 12 staff. Until 1988, the site had been a clubhouse...
    6 KB (400 words) - 13:19, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
    Matilda Charlotte Houstoun (née Jesse; 16 August 1811 – June 1892) was a British travel writer, novelist, biographer, and women's right activist. She is...
    47 KB (5,678 words) - 14:05, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Johnstone
    seat of the Houston or Houstoun family who gained their name from the nearby village of Houston. In 1782, the Laird, George Houstoun, commissioned designs...
    18 KB (1,725 words) - 18:57, 3 November 2024
  • Sir John Houstoun of that Ilk, 2nd Baronet (or Houston; died December 1717) was a shire commissioner of the Parliament of Scotland for Renfrewshire from...
    2 KB (163 words) - 03:50, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for McIntosh Sugarworks
    Sugarworks, near St. Marys, Georgia, was built in the late 1820s by John Houstoun McIntosh. They are a significant example of tabby concrete architecture...
    7 KB (907 words) - 12:21, 23 September 2023
  • Sir John Houston, 3rd Baronet (or Houstoun; died 1722), of Houstoun, Renfrew, and Glasgow, Lanarkshire, was a Scottish Tory politician who sat in the...
    3 KB (222 words) - 09:38, 27 May 2024
  • Sir Patrick Houstoun of that Ilk, 1st Baronet (or Houston; died 1696) was a Scottish politician who served as a shire commissioner of the Parliament of...
    4 KB (366 words) - 03:35, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for George Reid
    four older brothers and two younger sisters. He was named after George Houstoun, a former Conservative MP for the Renfrewshire constituency who had died...
    42 KB (4,236 words) - 01:59, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Buddleja
    (1662–1715), an English botanist and rector, at the suggestion of William Houstoun. Houstoun sent the first plants to become known to science as buddleja (B. americana)...
    28 KB (2,375 words) - 07:22, 21 August 2024
  • William Houstoun (occasionally spelt Houston) (1695?–1733) was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who collected plants in the West Indies, New Spain and South...
    3 KB (406 words) - 01:57, 15 August 2024
  • 10th Hussars. William's wife was a prolific writer, Matilda Charlotte Houstoun. Lady Jane died on 1 June 1833. Heathcote, Wellington's Peninsular War...
    13 KB (1,218 words) - 04:50, 30 October 2024
  • Alexander Houstoun 1803 - Boyd Alexander 1806 - Archibald Campbell (Tory) 1809 - Alexander Houstoun 1812 - Kirkman Finlay 1818 - Alexander Houstoun 1820 -...
    3 KB (173 words) - 11:33, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert H. Anderson (general)
    Robert Houstoun Anderson (October 1, 1835 – February 8, 1888) was a West Point graduate, an infantry officer in the United States Army and served as a...
    13 KB (1,420 words) - 23:12, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Republic of East Florida
    the Spanish rule of East Florida, most of whom were from Georgia. John Houstoun McIntosh was chosen as "Director" of the self-named Patriots in March,...
    21 KB (2,498 words) - 13:17, 28 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Governor of Georgia
    of Georgia, including 11 who served more than one distinct term (John Houstoun, George Walton, Edward Telfair, George Mathews, Jared Irwin, David Brydie...
    18 KB (1,775 words) - 11:21, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Houston baronets
    Sir Patrick Houston, 8th Baronet (died c. 1835) American lawyer William Houstoun (1755-1813) was the son of the 5th Baronet. Sir Robert Paterson Houston...
    4 KB (395 words) - 04:23, 30 October 2024
  • of Georgia, including 11 who served more than one distinct term (John Houstoun, George Walton, Edward Telfair, George Mathews, Jared Irwin, David Brydie...
    121 KB (5,400 words) - 01:33, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lyman Hall
    January 8, 1783 – January 9, 1784 Preceded by John Martin Succeeded by John Houstoun Delegate from Georgia to the Continental Congress In office 1775–1777 Personal...
    12 KB (1,016 words) - 03:08, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Founding Fathers of the United States
    Connecticut Elbridge Gerry, Massachusetts * William Houston, New Jersey William Houstoun, Georgia John Lansing Jr., New York Alexander Martin, North Carolina Luther...
    214 KB (19,038 words) - 23:20, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Martynia
    collected by the Scottish naval surgeon William Houstoun near Veracruz, Mexico.[citation needed] Houstoun sent seeds of this new plant to Philip Miller...
    5 KB (538 words) - 21:01, 3 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of prime ministers of Australia
    OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 21 October 2008. McMinn, W. G. (1988). "Sir George Houstoun Reid (1845–1918)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 11. Canberra:...
    63 KB (1,726 words) - 00:01, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brian Kemp
    Gwinnett Treutlen Houstoun Glascock Cuthbert Wereat Walton Howly George Wells Humphrey Wells Heard Davies Brownson Martin Hall Houstoun Elbert Telfair Mathews...
    123 KB (9,377 words) - 05:58, 5 November 2024