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Sir James Mackintosh Sir James Mackintosh
Sir James Mackintosh 1765-1832, British writer and public servant, b. Scotland. He was trained as a physician, but after settling (1788) in London he became a writer and lawyer. His Vindiciae Gallicae (1791), a spirited reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution, was the... Read more
Les Miserables Les Miserables
Les Misérables (1987). The musical play by Alain Boublil (book, lyrics), Claude‐Michel Schönberg (book, music), and Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics) turned Victor Hugo's novel into a sung‐through pop operetta. It was originally released as a recording, then given a... Read more
James Mill James Mill
James Mill 1773-1836, British philosopher, economist, and historian, b. Scotland; father of John Stuart Mill. Educated as a clergyman at Edinburgh through the patronage of Sir John Stuart, Mill gave up the ministry and went to London in 1802 to pursue a career writing for and editing periodicals.... Read more
Charles Rennie Mackintosh Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh , 1868-1928, Scottish architect, artist, and furniture designer. Probably the greatest architect and designer Scotland has produced, he attempted to create a native style for the modern era. His decorative and graphic works are some of the finest manifestations of art... Read more
Michael Innes Michael Innes
Michael Innes pseud. of John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, 1906-94, British writer and scholar, b. near Edinburgh. From 1969 to 1973 he was a reader in English literature at Oxford. Under his own name he wrote novels, short stories, and such critical studies as Character and Motive in Shakespeare ... Read more
Wiener Werkstatte Wiener Werkstatte
Wiener Werkstätte. Literally ‘Vienna Workshop’, founded in 1903 to emulate English Arts-and-Crafts workshops, such as the Guild of Handicrafts of C. R. Ashbee. It grew partly from the Sezession exhibition of 1900 that included designs by Mackintosh and Ashbee. By 1905 the... Read more
Glasgow School Glasgow School
Glasgow School. A term that has been applied to several groups of artists whose activities have centred on Glasgow. The largest of these groups, which was at its peak in the last years of the 19th century, consisted mainly of painters who challenged the conservatism of the Royal Scottish Academy;... Read more
Raincoat Raincoat
Raincoat Background Raincoats are jackets made of fabric that is specially treated to repel water. In 1836, Charles Macintosh invented a method for combining rubber with fabric, which was used in the first modern raincoats. Because of his inventions, all raincoats are called... Read more
Clans Clans
clans. The Gaelic word clann means primarily children, but was also used synonymously with cinel tuath or fine to describe a family group of four generations from a common male ancestor. Clans are referred to in the reign of David I (1124–53) in the Book of Deer, where there are references... Read more
Glasgow School of Art Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow School of Art. Art school founded in 1840 as the School of Design in Ingram Street, Glasgow. In 1869 it moved to Sauchiehall Street, and in 1885 Francis Newbery was appointed director, ushering in the School's golden period, when under his guidance it ‘developed rapidly from a... Read more

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