• Frederick George Heriot (11 January 1786 – 30 December 1843) was a British army officer, who fought in the War of 1812 and subsequently became a landowner...
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    George Heriot's School is a private primary and secondary day school on Lauriston Place in the Lauriston area of Edinburgh, Scotland. In the early 21st...
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    Drummond. Drummondville was founded in June 1815 by Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Heriot. The purpose of the town was to provide a home for British soldiers...
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    companies were detached under the unit's second-in-command, Major Frederick Heriot, and moved up the Saint Lawrence River to form part of the garrison...
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    positions and in the woods on the left was the skirmish line under Major Frederick Heriot of the Canadian Voltigeurs, consisting of three companies of the Voltigeurs...
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  • children. Honorary doctorates from the Universities of Aberdeen, Leicester, Heriot-Watt University, Durham, and Glasgow. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh...
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  • elected to the legislative assembly in an 1833 by-election held after Frederick Heriot resigned his seat. He voted for the Ninety-Two Resolutions. Toomy married...
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  • local militia. He lived in Drummondville in the home of his cousin Frederick Heriot. Heriot was appointed a member of the Special Council, after the Lower...
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  • Archived 12 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Notice of Sir Frederick Warner's 100th birthday "Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates". www1.hw...
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    Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, KG (19 February 1594 – 6 November 1612), was the eldest son and heir apparent of James VI and I, King of England and...
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    as coining agnoiology for the study of ignorance. Ferrier was born at 15 Heriot Row in Edinburgh, the son of John Ferrier, writer to the signet. He was...
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    agent. She has appeared in television series since 1966, including as Zoe Heriot, a companion to Patrick Troughton's Doctor in Doctor Who, from 1968 to 1969...
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  • village of Dickinson's Landing, is connected to Heriot Island, named for British army officer Frederick Heriot, by the only other bridge along the parkway...
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  • John Heriot (22 April 1760 – 2 August 1833) was a Scottish journalist and writer. He was forced to join the Royal Marines due to family hardship, and served...
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    Heriot was born at Haddington, Scotland, in 1759, the eldest child of John Heriot, the sheriff clerk of the town, and his wife Marjory. The Heriots were...
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  • position as demonstrator for Perkin, who had been appointed professor at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh. In 1890, Kipping was appointed chief demonstrator...
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    Heriot Row is a highly prestigious street in central Edinburgh, virtually unchanged since its original construction in 1802. From its inception to the...
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    Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC (/ˈhjuːm/ HEWM; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), known as Lord Dunglass from 1918...
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    174, as "Mr Cornelius Dalgraine". William Steven & Frederick Bedford, History of George Heriot's Hospital (Edinburgh, 1859), p. 10 fn. Daniel Packer...
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  • Hewitt received honorary degrees from the University of Louvain (1988), and Heriot Watt University (1995). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of...
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    Rory Lawson (category Heriot's Rugby Club players)
    the school's 1st XV. After a number of years playing amateur rugby for Heriots he then took a professional contract with Edinburgh Gunners in 2003 but...
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    Troughton and Wendy Padbury (who played the Doctor's other companion Zoe Heriot) decided collectively that the workload of Doctor Who was exhausting them...
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    It takes the name Heriot-Watt from Scottish inventor James Watt and Scottish philanthropist and goldsmith George Heriot. Heriot-Watt University has...
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    "Obituary – Sir James Heriot-Maitland". The Times. No. 36858. London. 28 August 1902. p. 8. Hewett, William George Brigadier Frederick James Heyworth Distinguished...
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    mechanics' institute in Edinburgh, the Edinburgh School of Arts (later Heriot-Watt University). Its first lecture was on chemistry, and within a month...
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    Adam Crozier (category Alumni of Heriot-Watt University)
    Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in business organisation from Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University. While at school, Crozier had trials with both Hibernian...
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  • group. He was knighted in 1962. Mott received an honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1972. In 1981, Mott became a founding member of the World...
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    Among other roles, Cooper was Clemency Warlock in Cynara (1930), Wanda Heriot in The Pelican (1931), Lucy Haydon in Dr Pygmalion (1932), Carola in The...
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    Edgerleyan, Innes was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Innes was educated at Heriot's, Edinburgh, and Kelso Grammar School in Kelso. On leaving school he was...
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    intricate and intensely three-dimensional designs. The goldsmith George Heriot made jewellery for Anne of Denmark. Architecture in the Jacobean era was...
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