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    Gavin Douglas (c. 1474 – September 1522) was a Scottish bishop, makar and translator. Although he had an important political career, he is chiefly remembered...
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  • (As Gavin) Aashique Mastane (1995) as Gavin Jallaad (1995) Hum Hain Bemisaal (1994) Mohra (1994) as Mr Douglas Naaraaz (1994) Cheetah (1994) as Peter...
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    using Erse to refer to Gaelic and, in the early sixteenth century, Gavin Douglas was using Scottis as a name for the Lowland vernacular. The Gaelic of...
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  • league player Gavin Douglas (c. 1474–1522), Scottish bishop, makar and translator Gavin Downie (1924–1998), New Zealand politician Gavin Duffy (disambiguation)...
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  • Gavin Douglas Ruthven Bridson (12 February 1936 - 10 January 2008) was a British bibliographer and librarian. Born Manchester 12 February 1936, together...
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  • Latin Aeneid, completed by the poet and clergyman Gavin Douglas in 1513. The title of Gavin Douglas' translation "Eneados" is given in the heading of...
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    Brigton (died 1814) Sir William Douglas of Balgillo (died 1818) Gavin Douglas (died 1522), Bishop of Dunkeld Sir Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie, "Greysteil";...
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    as well as being head of both the House of Hamilton and the House of Douglas. The title, the town of Hamilton in Lanarkshire, and many places around...
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    Gavin McGregor Rossdale (born 30 October 1965) is a British musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush. He helped...
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    performance. Before A Time to Love and a Time to Die had been released, Gavin was cast by Douglas Sirk supporting Lana Turner in Imitation of Life (1959). Unlike...
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  • on drums. By May 1979, the band's line up had changed to include Gavin "Fritz" Douglas, on guitar. "Gabrielle" was released in November 1979, first on...
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  • phase, comprising the works of Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas. At this point, England has recognised Scotland as an independent state...
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    in The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. Hill then portrayed Captain Edward J. Smith in Titanic (1997), by James...
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    Gavin Miles McInnes (/məˈkɪnɪs/; born 17 July 1970) is a Canadian writer, podcaster, far-right commentator and founder of the Proud Boys. He is the host...
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    whom even his uncle, the cleric and poet Gavin Douglas, called a "young witless fool". Margaret and Douglas were secretly married in the parish church...
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  • from 1420 to 1520—King James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas—seem to have understood his meter (though final e had long been silent...
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    century Scotland, in particular Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas, who wrote a diverse genre of works in Middle Scots in the period of...
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  • Mark Rowley as Alexander Stewart Andrew Rothney as Angus Douglas Brian Ferguson as Gavin Douglas Jamie Michie as Hume Alice Nokes as Anne Boleyn Bessie...
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  • Sappho and other classical authors, modernised parts of the poems of Gavin Douglas, and was the author of the well-known song, The Brown Jug, and of two...
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  • Erland Cooper, Orcadian and Scottish folk guitarist and singer Gawain or Gavin Douglas (c. 1474–1522), Scottish bishop, makar (poet or bard) and translator...
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  • Old Norse jötunn. One of the most famous usages of the term was by Gavin Douglas, who was in turn quoted by Robert Burns at the beginning of Tam O' Shanter:...
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  • Mare, based on Stan Rogers' song of the same name, adapted by John Gavin Douglas for the CBC Radio series Nightfall, and The Sisters by Silver Donald...
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  • writer Ellen Douglas (1921–2012), born Josephine Ayres Haxton, American author Gavin Douglas (1474–1522), Scottish poet and bishop Geoffrey Douglas (born 1944)...
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    Writers such as William Dunbar, Robert Henryson, Walter Kennedy and Gavin Douglas have been seen as creating a golden age in Scottish poetry. In the late...
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    rendering of the poem in an Anglic language is the Scots translation by Gavin Douglas—his Eneados, completed in 1513, which also included Maffeo Vegio's supplement...
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    the church from the jurisdiction of the Bishop of St Andrews. During Gavin Douglas' provostship, St Giles' was central to Scotland's response to national...
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  • Richard Watson Dixon Philip Doddridge Digby Mackworth Dolben John Donne Gavin Douglas William Drummond of Hawthornden John Dryden William Dunbar T. S. Eliot...
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  • poets of this Scottish group were Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas. Henryson and Dunbar introduced a note of almost savage satire, which...
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    and promised a French royal bride for James V. The poet and diplomat Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld assisted in the negotiations. On 16 January 1518...
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    created on 14 August 1646 for Lord William Douglas, third son of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas, along with the title Lord Daer and Shortcleuch...
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