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Dunkeld
Dunkeld , village, Perth and Kinross, central Scotland. It was a center of Celtic Christianity and the seat of the early Scottish kings.
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James Ballantyne
James Ballantyne , 1772-1833, Scottish editor and publisher. Ballantyne and his brother John set up a publishing business in Edinburgh with the aid of Sir Walter Scott . The firm published Scott's works, beginning in 1802 with Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
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Bannatyne Club, the
George Bannatyne , 1545-1608?, collector of Scottish poems. He compiled the Bannatyne MS (1568), the chief collection of Scottish ...
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blackmail
blackmail in law, exaction of money from another by threat of exposure of criminal action or of disreputable conduct. The term was originally used for the tribute levied until the 18th cent. upon the inhabitants of the Scottish border to provide immunity from raids by Scottish bands. Statutes oft...
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firth
firth or frith, Scottish term applied to an arm of the sea, usually an estuary or strait. For Firth of Clyde, see Clyde ; for Firth of Forth, see Forth .
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Atholl
Atholl , successively an earldom, a marquisate, and a dukedom of Scotland. For Scottish nobles so entitled, use Stuart, John, and Murray, John.
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Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759-96, Scottish poet.
Life
The son of a hard-working and intelligent farmer, Burns was the oldest of seven children, all of whom had to help in the work on the farm. Although always hard pressed financially, the elder Burns, until his death in 1784, encouraged his sons with...
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John Anderson
John Anderson 1893-1962, Scottish-Australian philosopher, b. Scotland. A graduate of the Univ. of Glasgow, he taught (1918-27) at the universities of Cardiff, Glasgow, and Edinburgh before becoming professor of philosophy at the Univ. of Sydney, Australia (1927-58). His extreme concern for independ...
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David Leslie
David Leslie d. 1682, Scottish military commander. After serving in the Swedish army, he was a major general under his uncle, Alexander Leslie, 1st earl of Leven , in the Scottish army that joined the forces of Oliver Cromwell in defeating the royalists at Marston Moor (1644). He defeated James Gr...
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John Dalrymple Stair, 1st earl of
John Dalrymple Stair, 1st earl of 1648-1707, Scottish statesman; son of Viscount Stair. He served under James II, but sponsored the accession (1688) of William III in the Scottish Parliament and became (1691) that monarch's joint secretary of state for Scotland. His political skill and eloquence en...
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