• -3.30583 The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh is a Scottish golf club, which holds claim to be the oldest golfing society in the world, with...
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  • on the same ground in 1729. 1735 – The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh is recorded as having formed; it claims to be the oldest golfing society...
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    function. The word "burgess" also lives on in Edinburgh institutions and place names, such as The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh or Burgess Road...
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  • receive the "Seal of Cause" include The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh, who received their seal on 2 July 1800. The history of the corporation...
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    receive the "Seal of Cause" include The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh, who received their seal on 2 July 1800. The history of the corporation...
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  • Virginia, U.S. The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Burgess. If an internal...
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  • "The History and Origins of Golf". Historic UK. Retrieved 2024-04-04. "The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Burgess Golfing Society...
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  • introduced until the 17th century. The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh makes claim to be the oldest golf society in the world. They originally met...
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    1936, Chronicle of Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh, Morrison & Gibb Cruden, Stewart, 1992, Bruntsfield Links Golfing Society, BLGS and John...
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  • The Royal High School (RHS) of Edinburgh is a co-educational school administered by the City of Edinburgh Council. The school was founded in 1128 and is...
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    own golf course, the Royal Perth Golfing Society -the world's earliest 'royal' club - play on the North Inch Golf Course, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club...
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    history of the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society, now known as The Royal Burgess Golfing Society. After James IV's Charter of 1508 allowed the Town Council...
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    "Prestwick Golf Club". Top 100 Golf Courses. Retrieved 2020-11-10. "Royal Burgess Golfing Society". Top 100 Golf Courses. Retrieved 2020-11-10. "Royal Dornoch...
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    tower house hides amongst modern housing. The Royal Burgess Golfing Society, one of the oldest golf societies in the world with a clubhouse dating from 1896...
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  • - Edinburgh Muirfield - Gullane North Berwick Golf Club - Berwick The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh - Edinburgh Royal Musselburgh Golf Club...
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  • Hugh McDermott (actor) (category Golfers from Edinburgh)
    born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1906, and was educated in Davidson's Mains. Initially an instructor at the Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh, he later...
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    Myreside Stadium The Grange Club The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh Royal Commonwealth Pool Tynecastle Park Economy of Edinburgh Business parks...
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    first record of a rival claim that The Royal Burgess Golfing Society had been set up in 1735. The instructions in the Leith Rules formed the basis for all...
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  • architect of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and father of James, John, and Robert Adam Sir Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921), architect whose works include the Scottish...
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    born 1735: Golf is played on Bruntsfield Links; also the traditional date for the founding of the Royal Burgess Golfing Society 1736: The Royal Infirmary...
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  • between Prestwick, the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers and The Royal and Ancient Golf Club. They decided that each of the three clubs would contribute...
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    Watson, Roll of Edinburgh Burgesses (Edinburgh: SRS, 1929), p. 529. Bergeron, David M. (1991). Royal Family, Royal Lovers: King James of England and Scotland...
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    Newington is a neighbourhood of southern Edinburgh, Scotland. Developed from the early 19th century, it is an affluent, predominantly residential area...
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    members to the orders upon the advice of his ministers. However, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Thistle, the Order of Merit and the Royal Victorian...
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    (1798–1869), physician, president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh James Warburton Begbie (1826–1876)...
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    Aberdeen Burgesses were granted a Royal Charter by Alexander II of Scotland giving them the sole right to form a Guild. This body exercised power in the composition...
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    learned societies based in London include the Royal Societythe UK's national academy of sciences and the oldest national scientific institution in the world—founded...
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    Kirkcaldy (category Royal burghs)
    a town and former royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It is about 11+1⁄2 miles (19 kilometres) north of Edinburgh and 27+1⁄2 mi (44 km)...
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    Sutton Coldfield or the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield (/ˌsʌtən ˈkɒldfiəld/ pronunciation), is a town and civil parish in the city of Birmingham, West Midlands...
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    1580–1648), a bower burgess in Edinburgh. Donald was apprenticed to William Mayne, Master Bowar to James VI and also famed for making golf clubs. Donald Bayne...
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