The Gentleman Adventurers of Fife or Fife Adventurers were a group of 11 noblemen-colonists, largely from eastern Fife, awarded rights from King James...
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James VI and I (redirect from James I of England and James VI of Scotland)
of the Highlanders' shortcomings and sought to abolish it. It was against this background that James VI authorised the "Gentleman Adventurers of Fife"...
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Clement Cor (section Fife and the Lewis venture)
the Scottish island of Lewis. Many of the investors were from Fife and are known as the Gentleman Adventurers of Fife. Cor died of the plague at St Andrews...
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Dishington (son of William Dishington 6th of Ardross) was one of the Gentleman Adventurers of Fife who, in 1597, attempted to seize the Isle of Lewis from...
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of George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes and Margaret Crichton. Their children included: James Learmonth of Balcomie, one of the Gentleman Adventurers of...
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banquet for the Duke of Holstein, brother of Anna of Denmark, on 25 May 1598. Lennox joined with the "Gentleman Adventurers of Fife" in a controversial...
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James Learmonth, Lord Balcomie (category People from Fife)
killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547. His father's main claim to fame was as one of the twelve Gentleman Adventurers of Fife, whose bizarre plan...
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Hebrides (redirect from History of the Hebrides)
Alexander of Lochalsh provoked an exasperated James IV to forfeit the family's lands in 1493. In 1598, King James VI authorised some "Gentleman Adventurers" from...
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Outer Hebrides (redirect from Western Isles (islands council area of Scotland))
period of peace, but all too soon the clans were at loggerheads again. In 1598 King James VI authorised some "Gentleman Adventurers" from Fife to civilise...
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James Sandilands (courtier) (category Court of James VI and I)
expenses of the royal household. In 1598 Sandilands was one of the Gentleman Adventurers of Fife, who attempted to resettle and colonise the Isle of Lewis...
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1598 in Scotland (category Years of the 16th century in Scotland)
development of freemasonry. Gentleman Adventurers of Fife awarded forfeited lands on the Isle of Lewis to colonise. Raids on Stornoway. Publication of James...
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Bearasaigh (category Islands of Loch Ròg)
1598 King James VI had authorised some "Gentleman Adventurers" from Fife to civilise the "most barbarous Isle of Lewis" and take over the herring fisheries...
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Fife Region, Scotland's Gardens Scheme and Chair, Discover Scottish Gardens. For services to Tourism in Scotland Susan Eustace — Lately Director of Public...
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Y Z List of Canadian poets List of Canadian playwrights List of Canadian short story writers List of Canadian science fiction authors List of Canadian...
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H. H. Asquith (redirect from Herbert Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith)
became a successful barrister. In 1886, he was the Liberal candidate for East Fife, a seat he held for over thirty years. In 1892, he was appointed Home Secretary...
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Stevenson NTA Member of the Pirates' Conference. Arsène Lupin, gentleman cambrioleur, Maurice Leblanc NTA, BD Gentleman thief and member of Les Hommes Mystérieux...
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following list labels some of these stereotypes and provides examples. Some character archetypes, the more universal foundations of fictional characters, are...
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This is a list of fictional nobility that have appeared in various works of fiction. This list is organized by noble rank and limited to well-referenced...
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Baronet (1834–1886), Liberal MP for Fife (1864–1880) and St Andrews Burghs (1885–1886), peer, and Lord Lieutenant of Fife (1864–1886) Richard Arkwright (1835–1918)...
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prominent crew members. For a list of female pirates, see women in piracy. For pirates of fiction or myth, see list of fictional pirates. "CHRISTIANITY"...
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cathedral as a symbol of the city's identity and aspirations". The modern game of golf originated in Scotland, with the Fife town of St Andrews known internationally...
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Anthony Jenkinson (category Ambassadors of England to Russia)
"Journey of Anthony Jenkinson into Persia", Insights. Accessed 2009-10-19. Foster Rhea Dulles, Eastward Ho! The First English Adventurers to the Orient:...
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syndicate were for the most part lairds from Fife and the colonists themselves lowlanders. The "Fife Adventurers" made three unsuccessful attempts at colonisation...
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The Gaelic Kingdom of Scotland, AD 800–1124, The Making of Scotland (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2002), p. 13. J. Bannerman, "MacDuff of Fife," in A. Grant & K...
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Boyle Roche (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kerry constituencies)
recruiting serjeant. Drums [and] fifes. Another division of recruits. The returning soldiers. Prodigious concourse of [spectators?]. The following speech...
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George Murray (general) (category British Army personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
Sheriffmuir, but Lord George missed the battle, as he was collecting taxes in Fife. While Sheriffmuir was inconclusive, without external support the Rebellion...
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and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay (Hudson's Bay Company) and North West Company. Clifford Sifton, Minister of the Interior...
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champ Joseph W. Fifer, Civil War officer, city attorney of Bloomington, Governor of Illinois (born in Virginia) Tim Finchem, commissioner of golf's PGA Tour...
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