• Andrew "Jock" Wemyss (pronounced "Weemz") (22 May 1893, Galashiels – 21 January 1974, Edinburgh) was a Scottish rugby union player, who played at prop...
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  • rugby at international level. He has carried the Olympic Torch twice. Jock Wemyss who played at prop for Scotland lost an eye during World War I, but continued...
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    Fleet Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss, GCB, CMG, MVO (12 April 1864 – 24 May 1933), known as Sir Rosslyn Wemyss between 1916 and 1919...
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  • Henry in August 1594. The laird of Wemyss was obliged to lodge borderers who were pledges for good behavior, including Jock Johnstone of Brummell in October...
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  • 1911, the team plays its home games at Neilson Park. Haddington player Jock Wemyss founded the Co-optimists; following a Barbarians inspired match in Haddington...
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  • Co-Optimist Rugby Club is an invitational rugby union club founded in 1924 by Jock Wemyss, the former Scottish test player, together with George St Claire Murray...
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    Cunningham Kirkwood Slater, GCB, LVO, DL (born 27 March 1938), known as Jock Slater, is a retired Royal Navy officer. He commanded a minesweeper, a frigate...
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  • MacDonald Andrew Drybrough Ian Smith A. G. G. Asher D. K. A. MacKenzie James Reid Jock Wemyss Charles Fleming Thomas Begbie Charles Berry David Whyte...
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    surviving Scots were capped before and after the war – Charlie Usher, Jock Wemyss and Alex Angus are some of the exceptions. Charlie Usher spent much of...
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  • of this, he has one of the longest international careers on record. Jock Wemyss, who also played on both sides of the war. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland...
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  • national cricket team. List of Scottish cricket and rugby union players Jock Wemyss and Charlie Usher, other players capped on both sides of the war. "Alexander...
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  • SymingtonArchibald Symington Lock 1914-02-07 v Wales at Cardiff 366 WemyssJock Wemyss Prop 1914-02-07 v Wales at Cardiff 367 WarrenJack Warren Centre 1914-02-28...
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  • Minister, Winston Churchill. Until 1955, the role was undertaken jointly with Jock Colville. When Churchill retired in 1955, Montague Browne briefly returned...
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  • centre forward. Drummond's brother Jock and nephew Tom were both footballers for Cowdenbeath. Hearts of Beath Wemyss Cup: 1906–07 Individual Cowdenbeath...
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  • magic. Sean Rees-Wemyss was cast as Felix's younger brother Oscar, a disabled social outcast who is bullied at school. Rees-Wemyss revealed that he initially...
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    Battenberg The Lord Fisher Sir Henry Jackson Sir John Jellicoe Sir Rosslyn Wemyss The Earl Beatty Sir Charles Madden, Bt Sir Frederick Field The Lord Chatfield...
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  • History. Retrieved 23 March 2012. John, Dave and Roy Macdonald of East Wemyss, Evening Telegraph, 5 April 1932, via Play Up Liverpool Football. | International...
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  • Frederick Thomson, 1st Baronet Iain Vallance, Baron Vallance of Tummel James Wemyss, New Zealand member of parliament George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of...
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    Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and grandson of Sir Jock Colville. Son of Samuel Vestey, 3rd Baron Vestey. Son of David Douglas-Home...
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    was formerly owned by Sir William Sharp and later passed to the Earl of Wemyss, the notorious Francis Charteris. The town and its population grew considerably...
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    Commander-in-Chief Fleet 1997–1998 Succeeded by Sir Nigel Essenhigh Preceded by Sir Jock Slater First Sea Lord 1998–2001 Preceded by Sir Charles Guthrie Chief of...
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    Rifle Volunteers under the command of Lt Col Lord Elcho, later The Earl of Wemyss and March. The regiment became the 7th (London Scottish) Middlesex Volunteer...
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    Battenberg The Lord Fisher Sir Henry Jackson Sir John Jellicoe Sir Rosslyn Wemyss The Earl Beatty Sir Charles Madden, Bt Sir Frederick Field The Lord Chatfield...
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    Battenberg The Lord Fisher Sir Henry Jackson Sir John Jellicoe Sir Rosslyn Wemyss The Earl Beatty Sir Charles Madden, Bt Sir Frederick Field The Lord Chatfield...
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    John Weir (politician) (1904–1995), Australian politician John Wemyss, 1st Earl of Wemyss (1586–1649), Scottish politician John Yakabuski (born 1957), Canadian...
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    Battenberg The Lord Fisher Sir Henry Jackson Sir John Jellicoe Sir Rosslyn Wemyss The Earl Beatty Sir Charles Madden, Bt Sir Frederick Field The Lord Chatfield...
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    November 1916 10 January 1918 1 year, 41 days 68 Wemyss, RosslynAdmiral of the Fleet Sir Rosslyn Wemyss (1864–1933) 10 January 1918 1 November 1919 1 year...
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    Battenberg The Lord Fisher Sir Henry Jackson Sir John Jellicoe Sir Rosslyn Wemyss The Earl Beatty Sir Charles Madden, Bt Sir Frederick Field The Lord Chatfield...
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    Battenberg The Lord Fisher Sir Henry Jackson Sir John Jellicoe Sir Rosslyn Wemyss The Earl Beatty Sir Charles Madden, Bt Sir Frederick Field The Lord Chatfield...
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    Battenberg The Lord Fisher Sir Henry Jackson Sir John Jellicoe Sir Rosslyn Wemyss The Earl Beatty Sir Charles Madden, Bt Sir Frederick Field The Lord Chatfield...
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