• William Simson (1798/99 – 29 August 1847) was a Scottish portrait, landscape and subject painter. Simson was born at Dundee in 1798/99. He studied under...
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  • Colin William Simson (1828 – 23 February 1905) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was born at Pittenween in Fife to farmer Robert Simson. In...
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  • Hohlov-Simson (born 1972), football player from Estonia Thomas Simson (1696–1764), medical academic at the University of St Andrews William Simson (1800–1847)...
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  • in plain, braid lallans, Like you or me. —Robert Burns in Epistle To William Simson "What tongue does your auld bookie speak?" He'll spier; an' I, his mou...
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    Robert Simson (14 October 1687 – 1 October 1768) was a Scottish mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow. The Simson line...
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    through these points is the Simson line of P, named for Robert Simson. The concept was first published, however, by William Wallace in 1799, and is sometimes...
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    born in 1797, was son of Captain James Pratt, by Anne, daughter of William Simson, and was educated at St. Andrews University. He was gazetted to an ensigncy...
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    illustrated with plates after Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, David Wilkie, William Simson, and others. Painting views in Scotland, Italy, Sicily, and elsewhere...
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    William Simson, John Burnet, 1841, oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, London...
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    Martin Sigismund Eduard von Simson (10 November 1810 – 2 May 1899) was a German jurist and distinguished liberal politician of the Kingdom of Prussia and...
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    Harold Fraser-Simson (15 August 1872 – 19 January 1944) was an English composer of light music, including songs and the scores to musical comedies. His...
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  • poet in Scotland. Archibald Simson, Scottish divine, was born in 1564, most likely in Dunbar, to Andrew Simson and Violet Simson. His mother, Violet, was...
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  • in Edinburgh on 2 April 1854, Simson was one of the nine children of Jane Christiana Aberdein (b. 1820) and William Simson (1811–1858), secretary of the...
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  • Saward, barrister and forger (date of death unknown) Approximate date – William Simson, Scottish-born painter (died 1847) 26 January – Gabriel Christie, Scottish-born...
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  • Andrew Simson (c.1526–c.1591) was a Scottish minister and schoolmaster. Simson studied at St. Salvator's College, St. Andrews, in 1554, and in 1559 at...
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  • John Brown, painter Francis Legat, engraver Alexander Nasmyth, painter William Simson, painter David Octavius Hill, painter and activist "Trustees Academy...
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    became the property of the Montgomerie family before being sold to the Simson family in 1723. The manor house still survives as part of a business premises...
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  • art at the Trustees Academy on Picardy Place, where he studied under William Simson. He exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1830 and was elected...
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  • Eduard Clemens Fechner, German portrait painter and etcher (died 1861) William Simson, Scottish-born painter (died 1847) February 1 – Ferdinand Kobell, German...
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    1723 Mr William Simson or Simpson obtained the property from the Earl. Mr Simpson was said to be a man of expensive tastes and his son William was forced...
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    Lockhart (Portrait) Reverend John Thomson of Duddingstone (Portrait) William Simson, R.S.A. (Portrait) Hagar & Ishmael (1840) Other pictures of note are:...
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  • Patrick Simson (1566-1618) was a presbyterian minster who served in Stirling during the reign of James VI of Scotland. Despite his opposition to Episcopalianism...
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    Montgomerie's old estate of Coilsfield, Tarbolton. In the poem Epistle to William Simson we find Burns' first use of the name 'Coila' as a substitute for Kyle...
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    the son of Alexander Wallace, a leather manufacturer, and his wife, Janet Simson. He received his school education in Dysart and Kirkcaldy. In 1784 his family...
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    moved to Edinburgh, where his pupils included Robert Scott Lauder, William Simson, and David Octavius Hill. While in London he had contributed to the...
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  • joined by William and Dorothea Spicer. Frederick and Dora Spicer-Simson had four sons and six daughters. One of their sons was Geoffrey Spicer-Simson. Argentipallium...
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  • Services Arthur Edwards 4 May 1973 Thamesmead Richard Balfe 4 May 1973 William Simson 13 May 1975 Town Development Robert Crane 4 May 1973 Edward Bell 14...
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    Tweddle, Ian (2000). Simson on Porisms. Springer. ISBN 978-1-84996-862-1. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "William Trail", MacTutor History...
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  • critic, forger and probable serial poisoner (born 1794) August 29 – William Simson, Scottish-born painter (born 1799) September 15 – Jan Mooy, Dutch marine...
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  • John Simson (1667–1740) was a Scottish "New Licht" theologian, involved in a long investigation of alleged heresy. He was suspended from teaching as Professor...
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