Thomas Brown FRSE (1811–1893) was a Scottish minister in the Free Church of Scotland who rose to its highest rank, Moderator of the General Assembly in...
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Brown (bishop) (Thomas Joseph Brown, 1796–1880), English bishop of the Roman Catholic Church Thomas Brown (minister and natural historian) (1811–1893),...
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John Walker FRSE (1731–1803) was a Scottish minister and natural historian. He was Regius Professor of Natural history at the University of Edinburgh from...
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biologist Isaac Henry Burkill – botanist Lawrence Michael Brown – material scientist Thomas Cavalier-Smith – evolutionary biologist Philip S. Corbet –...
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1862–1913), historian and novelist James Brown Craven (1850–1924), church historian and Episcopal minister Robert Crawford (b. 1959), poet, scholar and critic...
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(1830–1897), minister of religion and philosopher Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), philosopher, satirist, historian and University of Edinburgh rector Thomas Chalmers...
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List of people associated with Wadham College, Oxford (section Authors, artists, broadcasters and entertainers)
art historian Harvie Branscomb, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University William Brown, Master of Darwin College, Cambridge Alan Bullock, historian of Nazi...
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much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet, and selects its ministers. As modern prime ministers hold office by virtue of their ability to command...
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enemies of slavery". Historian and Brown documentary scholar Louis Ruchames wrote: "Brown's action was one of great idealism and placed him in the company...
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List of Scots (section Architects and master masons)
balloon) John Walker (1731–1803), minister of religion, natural historian and professor Albert Watson (born 1942), fashion and celebrity photographer Alexander...
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List of American liberals (section Jurists and the law)
and protecting the natural environment. This form of liberalism took shape in the 20th century United States as the franchise and other civil rights were...
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Presbyterian minister and also began studying the natural world, which he grew to love. At this time he began studying Latin, Greek, and French, while...
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philanthropist. Other notable relatives: Thomas Storrow Brown (1803–1888), journalist, writer, orator, and revolutionary in Lower Canada (present-day...
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Daiches, literary historian and critic Helen Dale, writer Erasmus Darwin, poet, writer and natural philosopher John Davison, poet Thomas Dick, writer Angus...
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List of Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign non-political endorsements (section National and international)
Suri, historian, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin Craig L. Symonds, historian, Professor...
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List of University of Glasgow people (redirect from List of Alumni and Faculty of the University of Glasgow)
John Bannerman, historian, noted for his work on Gaelic Scotland Robert Browning, Byzantinist Sir William Wilson Hunter, K.C.S.I., historian, Indologist Sir...
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particular denomination. Isaac Backus, a historian of the New England Baptists and an inaugural trustee of Brown, wrote of the October 1762 resolution taken...
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Scottish Enlightenment (category Philosophical schools and traditions)
Waitt (died 1732) painter John Walker (naturalist) (1731–1803) minister and natural historian James Watt (1736–1819) inventor of a more efficient, practical...
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Slain in the Spirit (category Charismatic and Pentecostal worship)
to receive prayer from a minister or a team of ministers.: 91 Often, the prayer is accompanied with the laying on of hands and anointing with oil. Those...
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journalist and travel writer Leicester Silk Buckingham (1825–1867), playwright and historian Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826–1880), natural historian Raymond...
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List of people associated with University College London (section Government and public officials, heads of state and politicians)
Scottish jurist, politician and historian James Mill (1773–1836), Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher; advocate for the...
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Political philosophy (section St. Thomas Aquinas)
political science "apes" the natural sciences and is a rival to political philosophy, replacing normative words like "good", "just", and "noble" with words like...
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(specialising in Roman Egypt) and scholar of Welsh literature. Peter Brunt – Ancient historian. Anthony Collett – author and writer on natural history. Richard A...
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– Labour MP and Leader of the House of Commons Jeevun Sandher – Labour MP Tulip Siddiq – Labour MP Fred Thomas – Labour MP Gareth Thomas – Labour MP Charles...
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journalist (Agence France-Presse) and writer. Yehuda Bauer, 98, Czechoslovak-born Israeli Holocaust historian. Carole M. Brown, 82, American politician, member...
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professor and civil rights activist instrumental to the Brown vs. Board of Education legal team Tyler Dennett 1904, American historian and professor at...
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John Wilkes Booth (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
his own sword. Historian Benjamin Platt Thomas wrote that Booth "won celebrity with theater-goers by his romantic personal attraction", and that he was "too...
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profit ... Many modern historians have depicted him as the epitome of unredeemed mediocrity and as a veritable buffoon in office. Thomas Pelham was born in...
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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (redirect from Prime Minister Chatham)
was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768. Historians call him "Chatham" or "Pitt the Elder" to distinguish...
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against voluntary manumission. Thomas Jefferson was born into the planter class of a "slave society", as defined by the historian Ira Berlin, in which slavery...
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