• 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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    Homer's epics (the Iliad and the Odyssey), printed by Robert Foulis and Andrew Foulis of the Foulis Publishing House and printers to the University of Glasgow...
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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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    Tyrtaeus Spartan Lessons; Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1759 (title-page)...
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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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    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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    Scotland George Fordyce (1736–1802) physician and chemist Andrew Foulis (1712–1775) printer Robert Foulis (1707–1776) printer and publisher John Galt (1779–1839)...
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  • Scotland and their Darien Expedition. Foulis was born around 1645 at Colinton Castle, the eldest son of Sir James Foulis, Lord Colinton, whom he succeeded...
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  • Iliad and Odyssey published that same year in Glasgow by Robert and Andrew Foulis. Wilson's typeface was innovative in its rejection of the normative...
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    designated Baron of Foulis; he died in 1126. A reliable scholar, Alexander Nisbet, stated that George Munro, 5th Baron of Foulis received a charter from...
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  • to various parts of Asia 1763, in two volumes printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis of Glasgow. The Quarterly Review says that Bell wished to obtain literary...
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    Tilloch independently developed a process by 1782, and worked with Andrew Foulis the younger, printer to the university of Glasgow. On 28 April 1784...
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    stonemason. He attended the Foulis Academy, founded in Glasgow in 1754 by the printmaking brothers Robert and Andrew Foulis, before moving to Dublin and...
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    Fisher, maternal grandfather of Rev Ralph Wardlaw Andrew Foulis (printer) (1716-1775) Robert Foulis (printer) (1707-1776) John Glassford (1719-1783),...
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    Cooper's death in 1764. The Foulis Academy was founded in Glasgow in 1754 by the printmaking brothers Robert and Andrew Foulis, and in Edinburgh the Board...
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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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  • was reprinted at Glasgow in 1759 with the Latin version by Robert and Andrew Foulis. In Samuel Jebb's Bibliotheca Literaria Wasse wrote extensively; the...
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    Scotland' Retrieved 19 Dec 2008 Smith, George Fairfull, "Robert & Andrew Foulis, the Foulis Press, and Their Legacy", Retrieved 19 Dec 2008. Stronach, George...
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  • Munro (d.1490). While John Munro of Foulis was still an infant his uncle John Munro of Milntown became "Tutor of Foulis". In 1454, John Munro of Milntown...
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    Glasgow founded in 1753 by the printers and booksellers Robert and Andrew Foulis. Bogle married in 1769, and in that year and the next exhibited miniatures...
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  • Painting at Glasgow, founded by the two celebrated printers, Robert and Andrew Foulis. About 1761 he went to Italy and studied under Gavin Hamilton, and on...
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  • Hector Munro, 17th Baron of Foulis (died 1603), also known as the master of Foulis, was a Scottish chief of the Highland, Scottish clan, Clan Munro. He...
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    employed in promoting it (Vol 2 ed.). Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis. p. 357. Retrieved 24 February 2018. Lewis, Samuel (1846). A topographical...
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  • Munro of Foulis (died 1505) was a Scottish Knight and Scottish clan chief of the highland Clan Munro. He is by tradition the 12th Baron of Foulis and 15th...
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  • Foulis, later Primrose Baronetcy, of Ravelstoun, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 15 September 1661. For more information, see Foulis baronets...
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  • to the head of the house of Foulis: See: Sir Robert Munro, 3rd Baronet of Foulis. John Munro, 1st of Meikle Daan. Andrew Munro, 1st of Lemlair. Margaret...
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  • superintended the noble edition of Homer in 4 vols., printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis of Glasgow (the Iliad in 1756, the Odyssey, with the Hymns and Fragments...
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    married Margaret Foulis (d. 1609) in 1597. She was a daughter of James Foulis of Colinton, and sister of the financier Thomas Foulis. The dowry was 9000...
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  • home. The first printing of "Edom o Gordon" was in 1755 by Robert and Andrew Foulis. The story is thought to document a real historical event of 1571 as...
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    problems at Foulis Castle which had been burned after the Battle of Falkirk. At the request of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Harry Munro of Foulis and Ludovick...
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