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    Patrick Brydone, FRSE, FRS, FSAScot, FSA (5 January 1736 – 19 June 1818) was a Scottish traveller and author who served as Comptroller of the Stamp Office...
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  • Brydone is a surname of Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include: James Marr Brydone (1779–1866), Scottish surgeon. Patrick Brydone (1736–1818)...
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    written account of a cold-stimulus headache comes from Patrick Brydone in the 1770s. Brydone described a British naval officer in Sicily who consumed...
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    stopping point for Europeans pursuing the Grand Tour in Sicily including Patrick Brydone, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Soane, Karl Friedrich Schinkel and...
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    during the 18th and 19th centuries, for instance Henry Swinburne, Patrick Brydone, John Soane, Goethe, the Count de Borde, the artist Jean-Pierre Houël...
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    Channel View Publications. ISBN 1845412060. Fussell, Paul (1963). "Patrick Brydone: The Eighteenth-Century Traveler As Representative Man". Literature...
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    Ancient Greek theatre, to international attention. One of the first was Patrick Brydone, who wrote A Tour through Sicily and Malta, in a Series of Letters...
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    architects Robert Adam and James Adam. His mother was Elizabeth Brydone, daughter of Patrick Brydone, while John Adam and Sir Frederick Adam were his uncles....
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    clock tower in one of the courtyards. In the 1770s, the traveller Patrick Brydone wrote that: the Grand Master (who studies conveniency more than magnificence)...
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    the history of Ceylon One of his daughters, Mary, married the author Patrick Brydone FRSE. In 1778 his daughter, Eleanora (or Eleanor) Robertson, married...
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    of the Russian Empire, statesman, general, diplomat and scientist Patrick Brydone (1736–1818) traveller and author David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of...
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    the wife of Lord John Russell. Lord Minto married Mary, daughter of Patrick Brydone, in 1806. They had at least five sons and five daughters. Lady Minto...
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  • University of Edinburgh he was sent to travel on the continent with Patrick Brydone, at one time the travelling tutor of William Beckford, and visited...
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  • Elegies Anna Laetitia Barbauld and John Aikin – Miscellaneous Pieces Patrick Brydone – A Tour Through Sicily and Malta James Burnett, Lord Monboddo – Of...
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  • (1715–1804, England, H) Robert Bryce (living, US, Nh); Power Hungry Patrick Brydone (1736–1818, Scotland, T) Bill Bryson (born 1951, US/England, T/J);...
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    bombing raids in 1943, robbed the city of virtually all of these. Patrick Brydone, who travelled to Sicily in 1770, recorded his impressions of the local...
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    original on 15 August 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2007. Fraser Tytler, Patrick (1819). Life of James Crichton of Cluny, commonly called the admirable...
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    off the presses throughout the eighteenth century, those such as Patrick Brydone's A Tour Through Sicily and Malta being read by many who never left...
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    identifies passages that remind him of similar travel narratives by Patrick Brydone, Ann Radcliffe, and John Carr, effectively identifying the generic...
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    travelling in France, Switzerland and Italy with Patrick Brydone, and with the Revd. William Vyse. In 1770 Brydone made a Tour Through Sicily and Malta which...
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    Oxford. In 1765-66 he travelled in France, Switzerland and Italy with Patrick Brydone and William Beckford of Somerley, and was in Rome with Beckford in...
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    by reading the then-popular book A Tour through Sicily and Malta by Patrick Brydone. On Sicily he dedicated himself to extensive studies of mineralogy...
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    Through the marriages of his sister he was brother-in-law to both Patrick Brydone and John Russell, co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His...
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    Palagonia was a favorite stop for travellers on the Grand Tour like Patrick Brydone, the Comte de Borch, Goethe, and John Soane among many others. Napoli...
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  • Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, at the suggestion of councillor Robert Rutherford Brydone, on 14 May 1918, after receiving the news of the death of his son Reginald...
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  • Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos 1694-11-30 6 January 1674 – 9 August 1744 Patrick Brydone 1773-03-04 5 January 1736 – 19 June 1818 Alexander Bryson 1854-06-01...
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    impact on him. Influenced by the account of the Villa in his copy of Patrick Brydone's Tour through Sicily and Malta, Soane savoured the "Prince of Palagonia's...
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  • Bethune (1724–1774), clergyman Richard Blyke (died 1775), antiquary Patrick Brydone (1736–1818), Scottish traveller Charles Burney (1726–1814), music historian...
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  • Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot KCB (12 December 1818 – 21 May 1895) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he was...
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  • Great Britain by Billing and Sons Ltd., Guildford and London". Lowe and Brydone produced another print run of the first 15 years in 1974. The run was limited...
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