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    Stanley Cursiter CBE FRSE FRIAS FEIS RSA RSW (29 April 1887 – 22 April 1976) was an Orcadian artist who played an important role in introducing Post-impressionism...
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  • including Stanley Cursiter (1887–1976), William McCance (1894–1970), William Johnstone (1897–1981) and J. D. Fergusson (1874–1961). Stanley Cursiter was influenced...
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    George Mackay Brown and Edwin Muir, film-maker Margaret Tait, artist Stanley Cursiter and psychiatrist Sir Thomas Clouston. At the same time as the original...
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  • Bina Cursiter (15 November 1854 – 24 November 1934) was a Scottish suffragist, who played a leading role in Orcadian Women's Suffrage Society, and helped...
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    Asylum James Copland (1791–1870), physician and prolific medical writer Stanley Cursiter (1887–1976), artist William Towrie Cutt (1898–1981), author Walter...
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    Adige/Südtirol (since 1996) Conran of Orkney, 7th-century Bishop of the Orkneys Stanley Cursiter, Painter and Limner, born in East Road Ola Gorie, jewellery designer...
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    the Acts of Union 1707). In the official painting of the ceremony by Stanley Cursiter, the offending handbag was tactfully omitted. On 15 July 1953, the...
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    the Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal Scottish Academy included Stanley Cursiter and David Macbeth Sutherland. In the 1920s in particular Thomson's...
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    and philologist (Kirkwall) Thomas Clouston, psychiatrist (Birsay) Stanley Cursiter, painter (Kirkwall) Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney John Firth, author...
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  • Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown Memorial to George Mackay Brown, Edwin Muir and Stanley Cursiter in Kirkwall Cathedral, Orkney...
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    June 2017. Works of art in the town hall include two paintings by Stanley Cursiter, one of which depicts Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Duke of...
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    clerk William Peddie, (1861-1946), physicist and applied mathematician Stanley Cursiter, (1887-1976), artist Robert Rendall, (1898-1967), poet Alexander Burt...
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    promote the cause of women's suffrage. In 1911, a banner, created by Stanley Cursiter and Christina Jamieson, of the Shetland Women's Suffrage Society, was...
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  • Cameron: 16 June 1933 – 16 September 1945 Office vacant 1945-1948 Stanley Cursiter: 2 August 1948 – 22 April 1976 David Donaldson: 12 October 1977 – 22...
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    art in the inter-war period by figures including J. D. Fergusson, Stanley Cursiter (1887–1976), William McCance (1894–1970) and William Johnstone (1897–1981)...
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    Scottish Renaissance, were incorporated into art by figures including Stanley Cursiter (1887–1976), who was influenced by Futurism, and William Johnstone...
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    Paul Carter, artist John Kingsley Cook, artist and College lecturer Stanley Cursiter, artist Alan Davie, artist Mabel Dawson, painter Isobelle Ann Dods-Withers...
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    figures including Stanley Cursiter (1887–1976), William McCance (1894–1970), William Johnstone (1897–1981) and Fergusson. Stanley Cursiter was influenced...
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    introduce modernism into art and to create a distinctive national art. Stanley Cursiter was influenced by the Celtic revival, Post-Impressionism and Futurism...
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  • Department Maj. John Francis Cunningham, Royal Army Medical Corps Lt. Stanley Cursiter, Scottish Rifles Capt. Cecil Montagu Drury Curtis, South Wales Borderers...
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  • – E.S. Russell, marine biologist (died 1954 in England) 29 April – Stanley Cursiter, painter and curator (died 1976) 15 May – Edwin Muir, poet (died 1959...
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  • elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Stanley Cursiter, James Cameron Smail, Thomas Elder Dickson and James Pickering Kendall...
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  • George Crossley, Assistant Secretary, Central Office of Information. Stanley Cursiter, OBE, RSA, Director, National Galleries of Scotland. Frank Harold Dawson...
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    Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966. Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Provo, UT, USA. p. 183. Sir John Ireland Falconer BBC Painting by Stanley Cursiter...
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  • Harveian Society of Edinburgh. He died on 13 March 1962. His portrait, by Stanley Cursiter is held in the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Edinburgh and...
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  • hundreds of miles from London she created a banner with Orkney artist Stanley Cursiter which she carried in national processions, including the Women's Coronation...
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  • Margaret Mary Phyllis Cursiter (1927-1997) in Edinburgh in 1948 at Murrayfield Parish Church. She was the daughter of Stanley Cursiter, director of the National...
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    Barns-Graham Julius Bissier Sandra Blow Martin Boyce Michael Broido Stanley Cursiter Alan Davie Robyn Denny Katy Dove Olafur Eliasson Ian Hamilton Finlay...
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  • enthusiastic officers". A special "Orcadian Banner" designed by local artist, Stanley Cursiter and Shetlander Christina Jamieson was carried at the Coronation Procession...
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    title died with him. His portrait, dressed as Rector, was painted by Stanley Cursiter and is held by the University of Edinburgh. Pollock baronets "Pollock...
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