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    Robert Foulis (20 April 1707 – 2 June 1776) was a Scottish printer and publisher. Robert Foulis was born the son of a maltman. He was apprenticed to a...
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  • Robert Foulis may refer to: Robert Foulis (printer) (1707–1776), Scottish printer and publisher Robert Foulis (inventor) (1796–1866), Canadian inventor...
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  • Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online Robert Foulis at Canada's Digital Collections Foulis - Gesner Conflict : New Brunswick Community College...
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  • Andrew Foulis (1712 – 18 September 1775) was a Scottish printer, brother of Robert Foulis. They worked in partnership as printers to the University of...
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    maternal grandfather of Rev Ralph Wardlaw Andrew Foulis (printer) (1716-1775) Robert Foulis (printer) (1707-1776) John Glassford (1719-1783), tobacco merchant...
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  • years in the publishing house of the brothers Foulis. In 1787 he settled in London, first as a printer, and then as proprietor and joint editor of The...
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    (the Iliad and the Odyssey), printed by Robert Foulis and Andrew Foulis of the Foulis Publishing House and printers to the University of Glasgow. T‌he characters...
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    genre scenes. She had a working relationship with Thomas Noble Foulis an Edinburgh printer and publisher. In 1903 she was elected a member of the Royal...
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    provided North Park House as the home for Queen Margaret College Foulis: Robert Foulis, Printer to the university, founder of former Academy of Fine Arts *During...
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  • Sir David Foulis (died 1642) was a Scottish baronet and politician. Foulis was the third son of James Foulis of Colinton, by Agnes Heriot of Lumphoy, and...
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  • November – James Jardine, hydraulic engineer (died 1858) 2 June – Robert Foulis, printer, publisher and art critic (born 1707) 25 August – David Hume, philosopher...
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  • Edinburgh publishers "Douglas & Foulis". His ancestors included Robert Foulis (printer). His brother Douglas A. Foulis joined the firm in 1907 and was...
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  • 1752 he was the financial backer of the Foulis Academy created by the printers Andrew Foulis and Robert Foulis. The Academy was created on the High Street...
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  • Campbell, Earl of Ilay succeeds his brother as 3rd Duke of Argyll. Robert Foulis becomes printer to the University of Glasgow. Probable date – the last wolf...
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    by Robert Foulis and Andrew Foulis, the printers, he removed to Glasgow, attended the academy which had been established there by the brothers Foulis, and...
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  • to give in previous years. The Edinburgh goldsmith and financier Thomas Foulis supplied jewels to James VI to serve as New Year's Day gifts in 1595 and...
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  • April – John Pringle, physician (died 1782 in London) 20 April – Robert Foulis, printer and publisher (died 1776) 22 June (bapt.) – Elizabeth Blackwell...
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    Type-Founder and Printer, 1706-1775. Boston. Retrieved 12 February 2017.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Robert Dodsley (22 January...
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  • – Carlo Goldoni, Venetian dramatist (died 1793) April 20 – Robert Foulis, Scottish printer and publisher (died 1776) April 22 – Henry Fielding, English...
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    Ireland. David Foulis was sent to London in August 1598, and reported that James had made a proclamation against sending arms to Ireland. Foulis secured another...
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  • The English diplomat George Nicholson reported that David Foulis had directed the printer Robert Waldegrave to publish a Latin succession tract written by...
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    Fordyce (1736–1802) physician and chemist Andrew Foulis (1712–1775) printer Robert Foulis (1707–1776) printer and publisher John Galt (1779–1839) novelist...
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  • Academy of Painting at Glasgow, founded by the two celebrated printers, Robert and Andrew Foulis. About 1761 he went to Italy and studied under Gavin Hamilton...
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    drawing school in Glasgow founded in 1753 by the printers and booksellers Robert and Andrew Foulis. Bogle married in 1769, and in that year and the next...
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    exchanged lands in Sutherland with Robert Mor Munro, 15th Baron of Foulis for lands in Ross-shire. He was also infeft with Foulis's lands in Dingwall. A record...
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    Ratcliffe (1915). The makers of the kirk. London, Edinburgh, Boston: T. N. Foulis. pp. 69–76. Retrieved 31 July 2019. Blaikie, W. G. (1890). "George Wishart"...
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  • Alexander Robert Horne (1936–38) Alexander Steuart (1938–40) William G. Maxwell (1940–42) Robert Aitken (1942–44) George Herbert Liston-Foulis (1944–46)...
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  • philanthropist and donor of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Thomas Foulis (d. 1628), goldsmith and financier Lord Fountainhall (1646–1722), jurist...
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  • Gazette, founded by Peter Momma, begins publication. The publisher Robert Foulis acquires his own printing press in Glasgow. The French typefounder Pierre...
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    Tomb of John Bayne of Pitcairlie (17th c.) Detail on the tomb of George Foulis, laird of Ravilstoun (d. 1633) and his wife, Jane Bannatyne Detail on the...
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