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    William Edmondstoune "W. E." Aytoun FRSE (21 June 1813 – 4 August 1865) was a Scottish poet, lawyer by training, and professor of rhetoric and belles...
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  • soldier Roger Sinclair Aytoun (1823–1904), Scottish politician William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865), Scottish poet, humorist, and writer Aiton (surname)...
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  • 1840s through the 1850s when it abruptly fell out of fashion. William Edmondstoune Aytoun's parodic Firmilian: A Spasmodic Tragedy (1854) is credited with...
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  • combustion. In the comic story "The Glenmutchkin Railway" by William Edmondstoune Aytoun, published in 1845 in Blackwood's Magazine, one of the railway...
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  • Armstrong John Armstrong Donna Ashworth Thomas Atkinson William Auld Robert Aytoun William Edmondstoune Aytoun Joanna Baillie Alexander Bald Alexander Balfour...
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    measured round that Crinoline!" From "Crinoliniana" by "Dunshunner" William Edmondstoune Aytoun: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Vol. 93 (572): June 1863, p....
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  • Charles Lascelles Wraxall, English writer (born 1828) August 4 – William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Scottish poet and humorist (born 1813) September 29 – Richard...
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  • Canadian politician. Member of Ionic Lodge No. 25 in Toronto. William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865), Scottish lawyer and poet. Active member of the Scottish...
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  • Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish clergyman (died 1843) 21 June – William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Scottish poet and academic (died 1865) 17 September – John Jabez...
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  • Bon Gaultier was a pen name assumed by the writers William Edmondstoune Aytoun and Sir Theodore Martin. The humorous Bon Gaultier Ballads remained popular...
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  • History of Edinburgh (1779) Kate Atkinson (born 1951), novelist William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865), poet R. M. Ballantyne (1825–1894), author of The...
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    including weaver-poet William Thom (1799–1848), Lady Margaret Maclean Clephane Compton Northampton (d. 1830), William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–65) and Thomas...
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    the novel included David Macbeth Moir, John Stuart Blackie, William Edmondstoune Aytoun and Margaret Oliphant. In the late nineteenth century, a number...
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  • James Hector, member of the Palliser Expedition, (EA 1844-45). William Edmondstoune Aytoun John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn...
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    the novel included David Macbeth Moir, John Stuart Blackie, William Edmondstoune Aytoun and Margaret Oliphant. In the late nineteenth century, a number...
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    John Learmonth of Dean. He stood against James Aytoun (an advocate and uncle of William Edmondstoune Aytoun) in the important first election following the...
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    English actress Prof William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865), poet Henry Bellyse Baildon (1849–1907), poet and author Dr John William Ballantyne FRSE (1861–1923)...
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  • - William Bell Scott - Robert Browning - William Edmondstoune Aytoun - Arthur Hugh Clough - Frederick Goddard Tuckerman - Matthew Arnold - William Cory...
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    Watercolourists (RSW). In 1858 he and his brother illustrated William Edmondstoune Aytoun's book "Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers", published in 1863. Paton...
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  • of John Wilson. Her sister, Jane Emily Wilson, was married to William Edmondstoune Aytoun. Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1813-14 Edinburgh...
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  • (born 1970, Ni) Pam Ayres (born 1947, E) Sir Robert Aytoun (1570–1638, S/E) William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865, S) Nnorom Azuonye (born 1967, Ni) Jody...
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  • Nightingale, Sir John Franklin, E. B. Pusey, Walter Savage Landor and William Edmondstoune Aytoun. In 1838, the family moved to Greece on account of her mother's...
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    was then used as inspiration for a section in Scottish poet William Edmondstoune Aytoun's novel Norman Sinclair, which told the same story but made it...
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  • translator, poet, Transcendentalist and Unitarian pastor June 21 – William Edmondstoune Aytoun (died 1865), Scottish August 28 – Jones Very (died 1880), American...
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  • Maconochie, 1822–?1845 (died 1845) Charles Neaves, 1845–1852 William Edmondstoune Aytoun, 1852–1865 Adam Gifford, 1865–1870 For sheriffs after 1870 see...
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  • became a double prizeman in rhetoric, and received from Professor William Edmondstoune Aytoun a special certificate of distinction; but he did not graduate...
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  • Baron's Little Daughter, and Other Tales in Prose and Verse William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, Scotland John Stanyan Bigg,...
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  • under the pen name "A", The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and Other Poems Robert Browning...
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  • Scotland, and is escorted off to his ship by a great company. Aytoun, William Edmondstoune. The Ballads of Scotland, v.2. p.261-263 Balfour Paul, James...
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    the Spenserian stanza to reflect natural patterns of speech. William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–65), eventually appointed Professor of belles lettres at...
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