• Robert Sprot (1873-1947) was a Scottish international lawn bowls player who competed in the 1934 British Empire Games. At the 1934 British Empire Games...
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  • Event Gold Silver Bronze Singles (details)  Robert Sprot (SCO)  William McDonald (CAN) Charles Abbott (SAF) Pairs (details)  Tommy Hills and George Wright (ENG)...
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    with the gift of Dirleton Castle. Sprot described a letter, signed "Restalrig", which he claimed was written by Robert Logan to Gowrie and to have had obtained...
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  • as Cecilia Doriel Sprot (she later changed her name to Celia) at her family home, Riddell Estate near Melrose, to Major Mark Sprot of the Scots Guards...
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  • Lieutenant Colonel Aidan Mark Sprot MC (19 January 1919 – 28 January 2021) was a British Army officer, who won an immediate Military Cross and later served...
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  • Silver Bronze 1930 details  Robert Colquhoun (ENG)  James Thoms (RSA)  William Fielding (NZL) 1934 details  Robert Sprot (SCO)  William McDonald (CAN)...
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  • singles winner (originally called the Roseberry Trophy) was George Sprot and his son Bob Sprot was a three-time champion and the first gold medal singles champion...
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  • Year Winner 1930 Robert Colquhoun 1934 Robert Sprot 1938 Horace Harvey 1950 James "Ham" Pirret 1954 Ralph Hodges 1958 Phineas 'Pinky' Danilowitz 1962 David...
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  • singles title, which equalled the all-time record of four other bowlers, Robert Sprot, David Dall, Joseph Black and Darren Burnett. Outdoor representing Blackwood...
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  • the Scottish National Men's Singles Championship record equally with Robert Sprot, David Dall and Darren Burnett, with three titles which he won in 1958...
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    the Scottish National Men's Singles Championship record equally with Robert Sprot, David Dall and Joseph Black, with three titles which he won in 1999...
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  • (Pre isbn). Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7. "FROM OUR BOWLS CORRESPONDENT. "Bowls...
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  • Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire 1975–1980; Sir Robert Scott 1980–1994; Lieutenant Colonel Aidan Sprot 1994–2014; Captain Sir David Younger 2014–2024;...
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    defied national instructions and put up a candidate, Alexander Sprot, against him. Sprot was refused a Coalition "coupon". Asquith assumed his own seat...
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  • Cole as Mrs Sprot (Episodes 4–6) Aoife McMahon as Sheila Perenna (Episodes 4–6) Pinar Ogun as Veronika Urbanowicz (Episodes 4–6) Robert Hands as Frederick...
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  • century. The name Sprota seems to contain the same root as the anthroponym Sprot found in the Domesday Book and in various place-names both in England such...
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  • formally held the office), to the extent that the then Cabinet Secretary, Robert Armstrong, said that had Thatcher been killed in the Brighton hotel bombing...
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    Labour Party's leadership in the Commons. She insisted on being sponsored by Robert Smillie and her old friend James Maxton to be introduced to the Commons...
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    1924 general election by the Conservative Party candidate Sir Alexander Sprot. In 1926 he was returned to the House of Commons as MP for Bothwell, at...
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    Lt-Gen. Sir Frederick William Traill Burroughs, KCB 1905–1907: Lt-Gen. John Sprot 1907–1915: Maj-Gen. John Edward Boyes, CB 1915–1937: Maj-Gen. Sir Alexander...
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    Émiéville (Esmitvilla, 12th century) and Émainville (Smit villa, 11th century) Sprot: Épretot (Espretot, 12th century) and Épreville (Sprovilla, 11th century)...
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  • Conservative MP for Ashfield (1977–1979) and Beaconsfield (1982–1997) Alexander Sprot (1853–1919), Unionist MP for East Fife (1918–1922) and North Lanarkshire...
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  • the genuineness of the Gowrie conspiracy. Robert Logan died before May 1608 the last of his line; George Sprot was hanged at the Market Cross of Edinburgh...
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    Philip Osborn Springfield CBE, Intelligence Corps Lieutenant-General John Sprot, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders colonel Lieutenant-General William Spry...
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    Cambridge University Press, 2005), ISBN 0-521-89167-1, pp. 148–151. G. Sprot, "Agriculture, 1770s onwards", in M. Lynch, ed., Oxford Companion to Scottish...
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    (1880) Rip Van Winkle (1880) William Grubb of Dundee (1881) The late Thomas Sprot WS (1881) Eugene Aram (1881) Mrs Denovan Adam (1883) David Pryde LLD (1884)...
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    cwts., has been presented to the church by Mr Edward W. Sprot, younger son of the late Mr Mark Sprot of Riddell. An interesting relic is the old stone font...
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  • Skiredj, 81, Moroccan actor (In Search of My Wife's Husband), COVID-19. Aidan Sprot, 102, British army officer. Cicely Tyson, 96, American Hall of Fame actress...
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  • Edmunds (1992–1997) and West Suffolk (1997–2010) Iain Sproat Alexander Sprot Robin Squire Nick St Aubyn; MP for Guildford (1997–2001) Malcolm St Clair;...
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    ISBN 978-0-911284-08-9. Sprot, Rachael (December 15, 2022). Downwind sails: How to pick the right one and fly it. Yachting Monthly. Robert H. Perry (November...
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