A Burgess of Edinburgh is an individual who has been granted a Burgess ticket in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland. Historically to be a Burgess was to be...
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are the Burgesses of Edinburgh. The burgesses' ancient exclusive trading rights through their Guilds were abolished in 1846. Thereafter a burgess became...
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Trades it forms part the Burgess Association of Edinburgh, an umbrella organisation for the trade bodies of the City of Edinburgh, who are discharged to...
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Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. The Edinburgh Corporation had the power to make Burgesses (freemen) of the City of Edinburgh. The Edinburgh Corporation...
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of Glasgow, George Hepburn, Provost of Lincluden, William Borthwick, Rector of Whitsome, and Adam Hepburn, burgess of Edinburgh. Described as son of Sir...
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Edinburgh (/ˈɛdɪnbərə/ ED-in-bər-ə, Scots: [ˈɛdɪnbʌrə]; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann [t̪un ˈeːtʲən̪ˠ]) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its...
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Company of Merchants it forms part the Burgess Association of Edinburgh, an umbrella organisation for the trade bodies of the City of Edinburgh, who are...
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(freemen) of the City of Edinburgh and to grant "Seals of Cause" to Guilds and trade organisations. The Edinburgh Corporation awarded Burgess Ticket through...
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/ 55.96222°N 3.30583°W / 55.96222; -3.30583 The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh is a Scottish golf club, which holds claim to be the oldest...
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of John Stewart, Duke of Albany, governor of Scotland, and made a burgess of Edinburgh in March 1517. He set up business as a merchant in Edinburgh and...
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Lady Agnes Stewart (category Daughters of Scottish earls)
Ramsay, a burgess of Edinburgh, who survived her. She died in February, 1557. Agnes Stewart was known as Lady Bothwell, or the Countess of Bothwell after...
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Henry Lauder, Lord St Germains (category Burgesses in Scotland)
Lauder was a Baillie and burgess of Edinburgh, by right of his first wife Elizabeth Hoppar (d. before September 1525), a kinswoman of the influential Isobel...
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William Fairlie (category Businesspeople from Edinburgh)
Fairlie or Fairley (fl. 1570–1600) was an Edinburgh merchant and burgess. Fairlie was frequently asked by Edinburgh town (burgh) council to survey and account...
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Donald Cargill (category 17th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland)
1656, within a year and a day of their marriage), daughter of Nicol Brown, burgess of Edinburgh, widow of Andrew Bethune of Blebo. He was born at Rattray...
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recipient Sir James Gray, 1st Baronet (1667–1722), armiger and merchant-Burgess of Edinburgh James Gray (director) (born 1969), American filmmaker James Gray...
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John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL (/ˈbɜːrdʒəs/; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer...
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British Triathlete Burgess of Edinburgh Bourgeois of Brussels Bourgeois of Paris Bourgeoisie of Geneva "Freedom of the City". City of London. 4 May 2023...
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Barbara Napier (category Year of birth unknown)
and she then married Archibald Douglas, a burgess of Edinburgh, whose brother Robert Douglas was the laird of Corshogill near Drumlanrig and Durisdeer...
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Ben Jonson (category English people convicted of manslaughter)
lodged initially with John Stuart, a cousin of King James, in Leith, and was made an honorary burgess of Edinburgh at a dinner laid on by the city on 26 September...
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John Cunningham (goldsmith) (category Businesspeople from Edinburgh)
merchant burgess of Edinburgh. He joined the Edinburgh goldsmith craft by making an essay or apprentice piece in March 1588. He served as one of the four...
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Andrew Lownie (redirect from Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring)
of Edinburgh, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His doctoral thesis (2019) was titled "Stalin's Englishman: the lives of Guy Burgess:...
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Look up Burgess, burgess, or burgesses in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Burgess may refer to: Burgess (surname), a list of people and fictional characters...
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Tokyo, Edinburgh and all Australian cities. Eminent international journal Architectural Review claimed that: "[Burgess is among a select group of architects...
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the good town of Edinburgh, and college therein, was admitted a Burgess of Edinburgh by right of his wife Jonet, daughter to Thomas Young of Leny, WS., who...
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Colin Lauder (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
1831), Worlds End Close, Edinburgh) was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh FRCSEd, and a burgess of Edinburgh. His portrait was painted...
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William Wallace (mason) (category Burgesses in Scotland)
3rd Earl of Winton, which he undertook from 1620 to 1627. In 1621 he was made a burgess of Edinburgh, and later served as Deacon of the Edinburgh Masons...
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Robert Galbraith (judge) (category Year of birth missing)
Earl of Angus, being occasioned by Angus' forfeiture. In 1543 he was murdered by John Carkettle, a burgess of Edinburgh, and others, on account of favour...
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Sir Samuel McClellan (category Lord provosts of Edinburgh)
apprenticed to Robert Douglas, an Edinburgh merchant, and after Douglas died in 1679, he was admitted as a burgess of Edinburgh in his own right. MacClellan...
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the rank of corporal. His choice of regiment did not please Ross, who wanted him to join the Scots Guards. Burgess then joined the Edinburgh City Police...
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Morrison's Haven (category Ports and harbours of Scotland)
Morisons of Prestongrange. A part of Prestongrange were purchased by John Morison from the Kerr family in 1609. He was a burgess of Edinburgh, a bailie...
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