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    John Adamson (1787–1855) was a lawyer, antiquary and scholar of Portuguese from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He was decorated by Queen Maria II of Portugal...
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  • John Adamson may refer to: John Adamson (antiquary) (1787–1855), English antiquary John Adamson (Queensland politician) (1857–1922), member of the Parliament...
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  • 1860) 24 July – William Ward, cricketer (died 1849) 13 September – John Adamson, antiquary and expert on Portuguese (died 1855) 13 October – William Brockedon...
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  • James Finlay Weir Johnston, chemist (born 1796). 27 September – John Adamson, antiquary and expert on Portuguese (born 1787) 3 December – Robert Montgomery...
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  • John Adamson FSA (born 1949) is a British publisher, translator and writer. He specialises in illustrated books in the fine and decorative arts. John...
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  • Tynemouth Nun,’ was written in 1829, and at the suggestion of the antiquary, John Adamson, it was printed in the same year for the Typographical Society...
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  • (2015-06-10). "First Burgh Charter". Retrieved 2023-10-30. Marshall, Thomas Hay; Adamson, Henry (1849). The History of Perth: From the Earliest Period to the Present...
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  • Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. Adamson, John William (1921). Pioneers of Modern Education: 1600-1700. Cambridge University...
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  • the Society of Antiquaries of London. The honour, denoted by the post-nominal FSA, is awarded to members of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a learned...
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    Professor of Chemistry Dr John Adamson, in order to discover how to reproduce his friend's process. Although John Adamson was the first person in Scotland...
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    Donald Adamson, JP (30 March 1939 – 18 January 2024), was a British literary scholar and historian. Books which he wrote include Blaise Pascal: Mathematician...
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    preference of men for members of their own gender." The well-connected antiquary John Aubrey noted in his Brief Lives concerning Bacon, "He was a Pederast...
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  • rhetorician John Jamieson (1759–1838), philologist, antiquary and United Secession Church minister Robert Jamieson (c. 1780–1844), antiquary Robert Alan...
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  • (1834–1907), school architect John Brown Abercromby (1843–1929), artist varying from traditional to avant-garde modernist Robert Adamson (1821–1848), photographer...
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    Households: Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses (Cambridge, John Adamson, 2006) ISBN 978-0-9524322-5-8 OCLC 78044620. For an inventory of the...
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    FRSE (1798–1868) was a 19th-century Scottish advocate, agriculturalist, antiquary, author, philanthropist and traveller. He owned an estate at Banchory-Devenick...
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  • and hymnist Donald Adamson (born 1939), writer and historian John Adamson (1787–1855), antiquary, poet and translator Arthur St. John Adcock (1864–1930)...
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    "Rev. John Duns, 1820 - 1909. Of Torphichen; Professor of Natural Science at New College, Edinburgh". Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries 1990 p...
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    Retrieved 7 May 2012. "Doctor By Nature" by Jeremy Rowett Johns; Polperro Heritage Press 2010 Adamson, Donald, "Oskar Kokoschka at Polperro", The Cornish Banner...
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  • Simon Swynfen Jervis (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
    Amos Lewis: An Elizabethan calligraphic manuscript revealed. Cambridge, John Adamson, 2024 ISBN 978-1-898565-20-8 OCLC 1422226157 Jervis, Simon Swynfen. British...
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    Bishop of Dromore (1753–1811) John Adamson (1787–1855), antiquary and Portuguese scholar John Bigge (1780–1843), English judge and royal commissioner...
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    James Drummond (artist) (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland)
    Scotland and was photographed by Hill & Adamson around 1843. He was also a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. In November 1876 he is listed...
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  • 1593, and another of thirty-five on 30 July 1597. Among his pupils were John Adamson, Edward Brice, David Calderwood, Oliver Colt, professor of Latin at Saumur...
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    photography in the 1840s the kirkyard was used by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson as a setting for several portraits and tableaux such as The Artist and...
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  • David McLees was born in St Andrews Fife, Scotland. He was the son of Mary Adamson Syrmington, a school teacher, and Alexander Gray McLees, the deputy rector...
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  • Williams, Welsh poet and author (died 1847) September 13 – John Adamson, English antiquary and expert on Portuguese (died 1855) November 4 – Edmund Kean...
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    David Adamson, Counter-Warden; James Mosman, Assayer, and his replacement Thomas Acheson; James Gray, Sinker of the dies or coining irons; John Acheson...
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    (1796–1861), medical doctor and translator of Greek medical works Dr John Adamson (1809–1870), physician, pioneer photographer, physicist, lecturer and...
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    8th Earl of Radnor, The French Hospital in England: Its Huguenot History and Collections Cambridge: John Adamson ISBN 978-0-9524322-7-2 OCLC 318092110....
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    and Tirconnell. Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Connolly, p. 589-590. Bardon, p. 33-5. Connolly, p. 129. Adamson, pp. 116–7. Bardon, pp. 36–7. Maolagáin...
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