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    Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson; 4 April 1828 – 20 June 1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually...
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    Robert B. Oliphant PC MP (born June 7, 1956) is a Canadian politician and a United Church minister. He serves in the House of Commons as a Liberal Member...
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    Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, AC, KBE, FRS, FAA, FTSE (8 October 1901 – 14 July 2000) was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played an...
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    Laurence Oliphant, 3rd Lord Oliphant Lord Oliphant Oliphant (disambiguation) William Oliphant, Lord Newton William Oliphant, Lord of Aberdalgie Margaret Oliphant...
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  • Pennsylvania, United States Oliphant (surname), a list of notable people with this name Margaret Oliphant, Scottish writer Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960)...
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  • Patrick Bruce "Pat" Oliphant (born 24 July 1935) is an Australian-born American artist whose career spanned more than sixty years. His body of work primarily...
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    Carolina Nairne, Lady Nairne (née Oliphant; 16 August 1766 – 26 October 1845) – also known as Baroness Nairne, was a Scottish songwriter. Many of her songs...
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  • (1791–1862), Scottish politician Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), Scottish novelist and historical writer Mark Oliphant (1901–2000), Australian physicist...
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    Laurence Oliphant (3 August 1829 – 23 December 1888), a Member of Parliament, was a South African-born British author, traveller, diplomat, British intelligence...
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  • Brothers Nigel B. Oliphant and R. Harry Oliphant of Adelaide, South Australia, founded a business manufacturing ultraviolet lamps for scientific, industrial...
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  • Lord Oliphant, Aberdalgie and Dupplin. He sent his servant to the king with a gift of plums in August 1503, at the time of his wedding to Margaret Tudor...
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  • names during her lifetime, including A. J. Orde, E. E. Horlak, and B. J. Oliphant. She was born Shirley Stewart Douglas near Littleton, Colorado. As a child...
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    prompted Britain to create an atomic bomb project, known as Tube Alloys. Mark Oliphant, an Australian physicist working in Britain, was instrumental in making...
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  • journalist, biographer and patron of the arts (died 1925) April 4 – Margaret Oliphant, Scottish novelist and historical writer (died 1897) May 12 – Dante...
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  • Laurence Oliphant, 3rd Lord Oliphant (died 1566) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of Colin, Master of Oliphant (killed at the battle of Flodden...
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  • Margaret Sandilands. Among his sibling was Peter Oliphant (ancestor of the Oliphants of Langton), Catherine Oliphant (wife of Sir Alexander Oliphant of...
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  • to Margaret Gilles Barrett, widow of Samuel Barrett, of Jamaica, and 3rdly, 19 August 1841, Marianne, eldest daughter of James Stuart Oliphant, of Rossie...
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  • Laurence Oliphant, 1st Lord Oliphant (c. 1438 – 1498) was a Scottish peer. Laurence Oliphant was first styled as Lord Oliphant in July 1455, one month...
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  • 1875. Oliphant was brother to the stained glass artist Francis Wilson Oliphant. He was first cousin of and brother-in-law to Margaret Oliphant, the author...
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  • English ballet teacher Betty Oliphant to work with the company. As the National Ballet became established, Franca and Oliphant decided to create a ballet...
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  • Miss Marjoribanks is an 1866 novel by Margaret Oliphant. It was first published in serialised form in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from February 1865...
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  • Institute, University of Helsinki. Retrieved 8 December 2020. "Margaret Oliphant Oliphant | Scottish writer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 August...
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  • test matches. In 1897, Oliphant was awarded the silver medal of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia for saving a girl, Margaret Purnell, from drowning...
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    Committee had just exposed. Oliphant also travelled to Berkeley to meet with Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron. After Oliphant informed Lawrence of...
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  • Margaret Oliphant Margaret O'Connor Wilson (1856-1942), American civic leader Margaret Barclay Wilson (1863–1945), professor of physiology Margaret Wilson...
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    Francis Wilson Oliphant (28 September 1818 – 20 October 1859) was a British painter and designer of stained glass. Oliphant was born in Gateshead in County...
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    Forster, John Galt, John Neal, Thomas De Quincey, Charles Reade, Margaret Oliphant, John Hanning Speke and Anthony Trollope, both in books and in the...
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    Margaret Ogden (born 1952), American fantasy author best known by the pen name Robin Hobb Margaret Ogola (1958–2011), Kenyan author Margaret Oliphant...
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    Kellie Castle (category Oliphant family)
    Olifard (or Oliphant) of Aberdalgie who was married to Elizabeth, a daughter of Robert the Bruce. Thus began 250 years of occupation by the Oliphant family...
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    Mordington, see that title. Douglas married Elizabeth Oliphant, a daughter of Laurence Oliphant, 4th Lord Oliphant, in spring 1585, and they had three sons and...
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