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    John Murray (27 November 1778 – 27 June 1843) was a Scottish publisher and member of the John Murray publishing house. He published works by authors such...
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  • (publisher, born 1778) (died 1843), second head of the publishing house John Murray III (1808–1892), third head of the publishing house John Murray (Australian...
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    The eldest son of John Murray II (1778–1843) by Anne Elliott, daughter of Charles Elliot, the Edinburgh publisher, he was born on 16 April 1808. When...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1778. 1778 (MDCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    Pitt, who was a constant rival to Murray until Pitt's death in 1778. There is very little information about Murray's time at Oxford. It is known that he...
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    D'Israeli and also launched the English Review in 1783. Murray was succeeded by his son, John Murray II (1778–1843), who went on to publish notable authors like...
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  • Carthaginian coins of Corvo (category CS1 maint: location missing publisher)
    The only source of information about the find is a report published in 1778 in Det Götheborgska Wetenskaps och Witterhets Samhallets Handlinger, now...
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    Ferguson resumed his military duties in May 1778, under the command of Sir Henry Clinton. In October 1778, Ferguson was assigned to lead a raid in southern...
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  • through the thigh at the Battle of White Marsh in November. Murray purchased a majority in 1778, serving with the 4th Regiment of Foot in the West Indies...
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    Jean-Antoine Houdon (category CS1 maint: location missing publisher)
    subjects included Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778-1809), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), Molière (1781), George Washington (1785–1788)...
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  • An Echo in the Bone (category Fiction set in 1778)
    Lallybroch, having accidentally gone through the stones at Craigh na Dun in 1778. Given his date of death on the family record, Brianna and Roger know he...
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    of Sir John Moore, London: John Murray Volume I Volume II – The author was a brother of John Moore. Moore, Sir John (1904), Maurice, Sir John F. (ed.)...
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  • Stauffer (born 1945), American actor of film, television, and theater Jay Richard Stauffer Jr., American ichthyologist Johann Georg Stauffer (1778–1853),...
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  • first Governor of the Mississippi Territory by president John Adams, and Judith Sargent Murray, an early American advocate for women's rights, essayist...
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    Dunbar-Nasmith, (1927–2023), leading conservation architect Alan Dunlop (born 1958) John Murray Easton (1889–1975), architect, winner of the Royal Gold Medal for...
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  • Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (died 1893) 23 January – John Cassell, publisher and entrepreneur (died 1865) 29 January – John Callcott Horsley...
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    from 1797 to 1801 John Adams (Virginia politician) (1773–1825), Mayor of Richmond, Virginia John Adams (New York politician) (1778–1854), Congressman...
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    John Paul Jones (born John Paul; July 6, 1747 – July 18, 1792) was a Scottish-born American naval officer who served in the Continental Navy during the...
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    inventor of the sandwich. John Montagu was born in 1718, the son of Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke. His father died when John was four, leaving him...
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    general (killed in battle) (born 1778) 14 January – William Creech, Scottish publisher and Lord Provost of Edinburgh (born 1745) 15 January – Emma, Lady...
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    that 10-year-old John Quincy would go with Adams, for the experience was "of inestimable value" to his maturation. On February 17, 1778, Adams set sail...
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  • MacGregor Murray (25 August 1746 – 18 July 1823 (Macfarlane 2004, Col. Alexander MacGregor (Murray)) Probably:Major-General Alexander Murray MacGregor (1778–1827)...
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    Jenkinson to John Livesey and E. Brewer, 13 April 1779 War Office Papers, 1:996, Sir William Codrington to Barrington, December 1778 War Office Papers...
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  • was next employed by the publishers John Murray (1778–1843) and Richard Bentley (1794–1871) in literary work. In 1831 Murray published an edition of Boswell's...
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    was the intersection of Brown's Hill Road and Beechwood Boulevard. In 1778, John Turner built his estate of Federal Hill nearby (along what is now Beechwood...
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  • Henrietta Beaufort (category 1778 births)
    Henrietta Beaufort (1778–1865), earlier Harriet Beaufort, was a botanist born of Anglo-French parents in Ireland. Her Dialogues on Botany for the Use...
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    Michele with his publisher, John Murray, in the garden at Southside, Murray told him that his ancestor and namesake John Murray (1778–1843) had sat in...
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    American Revolutionary War (category Conflicts in 1778)
    United States Marine Corps. John Paul Jones became the first American naval hero when he captured HMS Drake on April 24, 1778, the first victory for any...
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    of Southern Pacific Railroad, namesake of Fabens, Texas Forbes Family John Murray Forbes (1813–1898), industrialist Edward W. Forbes (1873–1969), Director...
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    related to John Burgoyne. Burgoyne burial site at Westminster Abbey Archived 14 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine Map from a London Newspaper 1778 Works...
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