Thomas Ruddiman (October 1674 – 19 January 1757) was a Scottish classical scholar. Ruddiman was born on a farm near Boyndie, three miles from Banff in...
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Ruddiman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Thomas Ruddiman (1674–1757), Scottish classical scholar Walter Ruddiman (1719–1781), Scottish...
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Johann Gottfried Stallbaum (category St. Thomas School, Leipzig teachers)
the Iliad and Odyssey, and the Grammaticae latinae institutiones of Thomas Ruddiman. See Lipsius in the Osterprogramm of the Thomasschule (1861); R Hoche...
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linguist Thomas Ruddiman, who became his guardian on the death of his father. On the death of Thomas, Preston became a printer for Walter Ruddiman, Thomas' brother...
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(1848–1894) (memorial only) William Roxburgh (1751–1815), botanist Thomas Ruddiman (1674–1757), classical scholar and grammarian Gilbert Rule (1629 (approx)...
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was the Easy Club, co-founded In Edinburgh by the Jacobite printer Thomas Ruddiman. Clubs did not reach Glasgow until the 1740s. One of the first and...
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youngest son of the farmer James Ruddiman (c. 1680 – c. 1739) and nephew of the printer, scholar and librarian Thomas Ruddiman (1674–1757) whose business was...
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(dramatist) English dramatist and Poet Laureate (died 1718) October – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classicist (died 1757) October 6 – Nicolas-Hubert de Mongault...
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communicated to scholars who sought his assistance. Francis Atterbury and Thomas Ruddiman were among them, and Robert Keith was given materials for his Catalogue...
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consultations opposing the sale. Thomas Ruddiman (1674–1757), classical scholar, printer and publisher Walter Ruddiman (1719–1781), printer, publisher...
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Francis Oldys, A.M., of the University of Pennsylvania. A life of Thomas Ruddiman, whom he admired, combined praise for the subject with an attack on...
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posthumously in 1739, edited by Thomas Ruddiman, under the title Selectus Diplomatum et Numismatum Scotiae Thesaurus. Ruddiman also produced a translation...
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French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1683) 1757 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish scholar and academic (b. 1674) 1766 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni...
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science writer and novelist Brian Ruckley (living), fantasy writer Thomas Ruddiman (1674–1757), classicist Charlotte Runcie (b. 1989), poet Christopher...
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poverty 28 July 1766. Walter Goodall aided the principal librarian Thomas Ruddiman in the compilation of the catalogue of the Advocates' Library, printed...
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note in Scotland at the time, from Sir Thomas Craig and Sir George Mackenzie to Alexander Nisbet and Thomas Ruddiman. The date of Abercromby's death is uncertain...
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Adam Colt or Coult 1705–1719 (joint keeper) William Forbes 1730–1752 Thomas Ruddiman 1735–1766 (assistant keeper) Walter Goodall 1752–1757 David Hume 1757–1758...
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Fontenelle, French scientist, man of letters (b. 1657) January 19 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1664) February 5 – Horatio Walpole...
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great kindness and generosity to deserving men who needed his help. Thomas Ruddiman, the Scottish scholar, for example, was rescued from a life of obscurity...
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de Fontenelle, French dramatist and author (born 1657) January 19 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar, editor, printer and librarian (born 1674)...
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designs. Other individuals commemorated by plaques in Greyfriars include Thomas Ruddiman, Robert Wallace, and Alexander Nisbet, and Walter Scott. The dais and...
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into and exploded, in a Letter to Mr. Thomas Ruddiman,’ Edinburgh, 1749. ‘A Second Letter to Mr. Thomas Ruddiman, vindicating Mr. Alexander Henderson from...
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66. ISBN 978-1-78117-277-3. Chalmers, George (1794). The life of Thomas Ruddiman. London & Edinburgh: John Stockdale & William Laing. ISBN 9780824009816...
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Potter author, wrote first book in Edinburgh coffee-shop, Nicholson's Thomas Ruddiman (1674–1757), classical scholar and printer Christopher Rush (born 1944)...
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railway required to reach the North Pole. In 1897, the geographer Thomas Ruddiman Johnston proposed building another giant globe in London. His plan...
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London Stock Exchange. James Andrew Robbie FRSE (1910–1977), geologist. Thomas Ruddiman (1674–1757) served as the parish schoolmaster from 1695 to 1700. Alexander...
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Scottish antiquarian and political writer, in his 1794 book The Life of Thomas Ruddiman It predated the Mercurius Gallobelgicus which is widely accepted in...
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Aeneas, are omitted as indelicate. The 1710 Edinburgh folio edited by Thomas Ruddiman, which includes a full glossary and a biography of Douglas by Bishop...
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introduction to Latin grammar, by Thomas Ruddiman, entitled Rudiments of the Latin Tongue, and The Spelling Dictionary, by Thomas Dyche. Davis also published...
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Life and Writings,’ prefixed to Thomas Ruddiman's edition of Gawin Douglas's ‘Virgil's Æneis,’ 1710. He assisted Ruddiman in the edition, Edinburgh, 1711...
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