• Sir John Charles Burgh, KCMG (9 December 1925 – 12 April 2013) was an Austrian-born refugee who became a senior member of the British Civil Service as...
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  • constituency) Sir John Burgh (officer) (1562–1594), English military and naval commander Sir John Burgh (civil servant) (1925–2013), British civil servant and president...
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    constituency) John Burgh (MP for Wallingford), see Wallingford (UK Parliament constituency) John Burgh (civil servant) (died 2013), senior British civil servant and...
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  • Mungo Brady (category People of the Scottish Marian Civil War)
    Edinburgh burgh council for paying John Knox's rent for his lodging, known as "hous maill". In 1571, during the conflict known as the Marian Civil War, Brady...
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    Thomas Henry Burke (29 May 1829 – 6 May 1882) was an Irish civil servant who served as Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office for many years before...
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    and, post-India, for seventeen years member of parliament for Kirkcaldy Burghs. George Campbell was born in 1824, the eldest son of Sir George Campbell...
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  • because it was delegated to his Deputy, John Morice, a long-serving and conscientious but not very competent civil servant. In 1342, he joined the Earl of Northampton...
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  • Court of Session and Disruption Worthy John Gorham Maitland (1818–1863), English academic and civil servant John Maitland (Kirkcudbright MP) (1841–1922)...
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    Unionist MP for Nottingham East. He also unsuccessfully contested Kilmarnock Burghs at a by-election in 1911. He married Mary Catherine Dormer in 1891, and...
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    Ayr") is a town situated on the southwest coast of Scotland. A former royal burgh, today it is the administrative centre of the South Ayrshire Council, and...
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  • of Brisbane John Sinclair (Ayr Burghs MP) (1842–1892), Liberal MP for Ayr Burghs John Howard Sinclair (1848–1924), Canadian politician John Sinclair (New...
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    enclosed yard. A separate, contiguous burgh of regality held by the Abbey of Holyrood developed to the east as the burgh of Canongate. Edinburgh was largely...
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    burgh in 1902. Elzy was described as on the coast a couple of miles east of Wick in 1836. The town is on the main road (the A99–A9 road) linking John...
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    Elie and Earlsferry is a coastal town and former royal burgh in Fife, and parish, Scotland, situated within the East Neuk beside Chapel Ness on the north...
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    The Canongate (category Burghs)
    were made to stand at the burgh cross with bared heads for three hours. After Mary was forced to abdicate, there was civil war in Scotland. Her supporters...
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  • the burgh records for Edinburgh show that in "the spring of the year 1562, Fr. Black's enemies created an unpleasant disturbance in Edinburgh". John Durkan...
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  • of King Chulalongkorn Gordon Welchman, code-breaker John Wood, civil servant in the Indian Civil Service 'BOGGIS, Andrew Gurdon', in Who's Who 2012 (London:...
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  • international footballer John Primrose (disambiguation), various people Henry Primrose (1846–1923), Scottish civil servant who became Chairman of the...
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    dominated by foreign favourites. After the fall of the justiciar Hubert de Burgh in 1230, Bishop Peter des Roches became the king's chief minister. While...
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    Boroughbridge (category Civil parishes in North Yorkshire)
    God permits, by your dutiful servant HOSEA EASTGATE. Boroughbridge became a separate civil parish in 1866. In 1938 the civil parish absorbed the parishes...
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  • formed the Atholl Highlanders Sir George Murray (civil servant) (1849–1936), British civil servant George Redmayne Murray (1865–1939), British physician...
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    noble dynasty, the House of Burgh. In Ireland, the descendants of William de Burgh (circa 1160–1206) had the surname de Burgh, which was gaelicised in Irish...
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    Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Theòrsa [ˈiɲɪɾʲ ˈhjɔːrˠs̪ə]) is a town and former burgh on the north coast of the Highland council area of Scotland. Situated in...
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  • Ross-shire and Inverness Burghs Kenneth Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baron Muir Mackenzie (1845–1930), British barrister, civil servant and Labour politician Kenneth...
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    278 Smith, Donald, John Knox House (John Donald, 1996), pp. 3-5: Charters and other Documents relating to Edinburgh (Scottish Burgh Records Society, 1871)...
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  • Scottish civil servant, university administrator and Liberal Party politician John Murray, Lord Dervaird (1935–2015), Scottish judge John Murray (Monaghan...
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    Neil B. Edmonstone (category British civil servants in British India)
    1790–6, and the Ayr Burghs 1780–90, who, made a baronet in 1774, died in 1807. He obtained a writership in the East India Company's civil service, and reached...
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    Charles Boycott (category Civil disobedience)
    funeral and burial took place at the church at Burgh St Peter, conducted by his nephew Arthur St John Boycott, who was at Lough Mask during the first...
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    Almondsbury (category Civil parishes in Gloucestershire)
    Partridge of Bristol and Almondsbury, a Royal Servant, by N.A. Deas 2000, MS, Bristol Libraries). The civil parish of Almondsbury is much larger than the...
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    commentator Sir John Blofeld (b. 1932), judge Tom Blofeld (b. 1964), writer Alan Hunter (1922–2005), writer Louise Jermy (1877–1952), servant, was encourage...
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