William Burns Thomson (1821 – April 29, 1893) was a Scottish medical missionary born in Kirriemuir, Scotland to Christian parents. Thomson dedicated his...
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McClure Thomson (1806–1894), American missionary and writer William Thomson (bishop) (1819–1890), Archbishop of York, 1862–1890 William Burns Thomson (1821–1893)...
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Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national...
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Elizabeth Burns, Elizabeth Park or Mrs John Thomson known as Betty Burns, was born in 1791 in Leith, Scotland. She was the illegitimate daughter of Robert...
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University. He lived in the nearby home of the medical missionary, William Burns Thomson, who had just established a busy dispensary where he and other students...
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appeared on radio, television and film as the comedy duo Burns and Allen. At age 79, Burns experienced a sudden career revival as an amiable, beloved...
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face. Thomson has a large memorial in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner, next to William Shakespeare and underneath Thomson's countryman, Robert Burns. Thomson...
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society and was accepted. Valentine then came to live with Dr. William Burns Thomson in the Medical Mission House in Cowgate as his assistant and served...
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pipeline. Burns Fry is created from the merger of Burns Bros. and Denton and Fry Mills Spence in 1976. In 1987 Bank of Montreal acquires Nesbitt Thomson. In...
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A Red, Red Rose (category Poetry by Robert Burns)
1787-1803). Burns also contributed to George Thomson's five-volume A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice (1793–1841).: 69–70 Burns intended...
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William Nicol Burns (1791–1872) was the sixth child, third born and second surviving son born to the poet Robert Burns when he was 32 and his wife Jean...
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Williams Buchanan Rhoda Bulter Haldane Burgess James Drummond Burns Elizabeth Burns Robert Burns John Burnside John Burrell Ron Butlin Lord Byron John M. Caie...
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William Robinson Thomson RBA, ARCA (born 24 January 1926 – 1988) was a British artist within the Modern British school of the late twentieth century. He...
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both Thomson and his father often abandoned their chores to go hiking, hunting and fishing. Thomson regularly went on walks in Toronto with Dr. William Brodie...
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Scots Wha Hae (category Poetry by Robert Burns)
Scottish Airs for the Voice, edited by George Thomson, but Thomson preferred the tune "Lewie Gordon", and had Burns add to the fourth line of each stanza, to...
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were composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. The folk song collector George Thomson commissioned Beethoven to arrange a series of folk melodies that he had...
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disarmament talks". Artsakhpress.am. TASS. 8 November 2019. Thomson 1999, p. 131. Thomson 1999, p. 127. Gordon, Michael R. (February 14, 2017). "Russia...
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Ever Green" by Allan Ramsay (1686–1758) 1735 "Orpheus caledonius" by William Thomson 1751 "The Caledonian Pocket Companion" by James Oswald 1776 "Ancient...
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Auld Lang Syne (category Poetry by Robert Burns)
poem to Burns himself. The song originally had another melody, which can be traced to around 1700 and was deemed "mediocre" by Robert Burns. The first...
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and exile, Burns travelled with him. Under the patronage of Lecesne, Burns went to the Lancasterian school at Borough Road in London. Burns again set sail...
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Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham, GCB, PC (13 September 1799 – 19 September 1841) was a British businessman, politician, diplomat and the first...
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Edwin Morgan - Alastair Reid - Alexander Scott - Burns Singer - Iain Crichton Smith - Derick Thomson - Sydney Tremayne - W. Price Turner 1946 in poetry...
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Tavistock - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Robert Browning - John Bunyan - Robert Burns - Samuel Butler - John Byrom - George Gordon Noel Byron - Thomas Campbell...
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld – William Blake – Robert Burns – Henry Carey – Colley Cibber – John Collins – William Collins – William Cowper – Jane Elliott –...
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Press, 1923; Vol. 3, pp. 472. Gordon McMullan, ed. Henry VIII (London: Thomson, 2000), pp. 57–60. The Yale Shakespeare The Yale Shakespere Gurr, Andrew...
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September 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015. "James Thomson". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 31 January 2015. Shaw, Robert Burns (2007). Blank Verse: A Guide to Its History...
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Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee (redirect from Charles Thomson Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie)
(née Thomson), daughter of James Thomson, and William Ritchie, of Rockhill near Broughty Ferry, Forfarshire. His father was head of the firm of William Ritchie...
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Buchanan - Robert Burns - Thomas Campbell - Helen B. Cruickshank - John Davidson - Gavin Douglas - William Drummond of Hawthornden - William Dunbar - Jean...
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Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound"...
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Thomas Blacklock (category Robert Burns)
New York: 1826 Brother Robert Burns (1759-1796) by Robert L D Cooper within: Burnsiania - A Bibliography of the William R Smith Collection in the Library...
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