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| 201 | He was a nephew of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. | of Russia, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (I192139)
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| 202 | He was buried on 31 August in the family tomb at Borthwick | Dundas, Robert (of Arniston, the Elder ) (I192188)
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| 203 | He was commissioned in 1779. In 1798 He was promoted to Major-General. In 1800 he commanded a Division in Egypt under Abercromby. He was Colonel of the 2nd Battalion, 68th Foot between 1801 and 1802. In 1805 he was promoted to Lieutenant-General. He was Colonel of the 2nd West Indian Regiment between 1805 and 1808. He was Colonel of the 77th Foot between 1808 and 1811. He was Colonel of the 58th Regiment of Foot between 1811 and 1823. He was a General Officer and Colonel of the 45th Regiment of Foot between 1823 and 1837. | Lambart, General Richard Ford William (7th Earl of Cavan) (I105566)
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| 204 | He was created 1st Baron Cairns of Garmoyle, co. Antrim [U.K.] on 27 February 1867 and was created 1st Viscount Garmoyle, co. Antrim [U.K.] on 27 September 1878. He then was created 1st Earl Cairns [U.K.] on 27 September 1878. He held the office of Lord Chancellor between 29 February 1868 and 9 December 1868 was Lord Chancellor between February 1874 and April 1880. | Cairns, Hugh MacCalmont (1st Earl Cairns) (I77373)
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| 205 | He was created 1st Baron Nugent [Austria] on 25 August 1859 | Nugent, Walter (1st Baron Nugent) (I77661)
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| 206 | He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England and at Christ Church, Oxford University He fought in the Second World War, in North Africa, where he was decorated with the award of the Military Cross (M.C.) in 1943, and Italy. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the Lothians and Border Horse. He was decorated with the Territorial Decoration (T.D.). He was admitted to Royal Company of Archers. | Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Lt.-Col. Claud Everard Walter (I105699)
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| 207 | He was elected Member of Parliament for Old Sarum in 1679 Coleraine was married three times: first to Constantia (died 1680), daughter of Sir Richard Lucy of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, by whom he had Hugh Hare, and other children; secondly to Sarah, Duchess-dowager of Somerset, widow of John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset (died 1692); and thirdly, in 1696, to Elizabeth Portman (died 1732), widow of Robert Reade of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. | Hare, Henry (2nd Lord Coleraine) (I113107)
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| 208 | He was founder and chairman of Raligh Cycle Company, and Sturmey Archer Gears. He was invested as a Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (F.R.G.S.). He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.). He was created 1st Baronet Bowden, of the City of Nottingham [U.K.] on 23 June 1915. | Bowden, Sir Frank (1st Bt.) (I4719)
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| 209 | He was from a distinguished Pennsylvania family, descended from Paul Lily White, who had helped explore the state with William Penn and Col. John Douglass who fought with George Washington in the American Revolution. | Douglass, John Watkinson (I59049)
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| 210 | He was given the name of James Hope at birth. His name was legally changed to James Hope Johnstone. He gained the rank of officer between 1758 and 1764 in the service of the 3rd Foot Guards with whom he fought in the Battle of Minden in 1759.n 1781 he was appointed Curator Bonis (Trustee in Lunacy) for his great-half-uncle, 4th Earl of Annandale and Hartfell. He succeeded to the titles of 3rd Viscount of Aithrie [S., 1703], 3rd Lord Hope [S., 1703], & 3rd Earl of Hopetoun [S., 1703] on 12 February 1781. He held the office of Representative Peer [Scotland] between 1784 and 1790. He held the office of Hereditary Steward of Annandale and Hereditary Keeper of Lochmaben Palace. He succeeded to the title of de jure 5th Lord Johnstone [S., 1662], & de jure 5th Earl of Annandale and Hartfell [S., 1662] on 29 April 1792. He held the office of Representative Peer [Scotland] between 1794 and 1796 & the office of Lord-Lieutenant of County Linlithgowshire between 1794 and 1816. In 1795 he claimed the Annandale estates and titles, but no progress was made before his death. He held the office of Hereditary Sheriff of County Linlithgow. He was created 1st Baron Hopetoun of Hopetoun, co. Linlithgow [Scotland] on 3 February 1809, with special remainder to the heirs male of his father. [http://thepeerage.com/p4342.htm#i43415] | Hope (later Hope-Johnstone), James 3rd Earl of Hopetoun (I191911)
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| 211 | He was Lord-Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire. He died on 13 March 1907 at age 62, without male issue | Colquhoun, Sir James (5th Bt of Luss) (I97829)
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| 212 | He was Military Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1918. | Dawnay, John (9th Viscount Downe) (I45791)
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| 213 | He was present during the victory against the English at the Battle of Baug? in 1421, but he probably died that same year whilst in France. (The later date of 1427, often presented as his year of death on genealogy websites, was instead the year his son was 'retoured' to his father, that is confirmed as his heir, when it was noted his father had died six years earlier) | Douglas, Sir William (1st Baron of Drumlanrig) (I111537)
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| 214 | He was Secretary to the Earl of Lytton, League of Nations Committee of Enquiry in Manchuria in 1932. A Member of Parliament (M.P.) (Unionist and Conservative) for East Fulham between 1935 and 1945, he later held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) (Conservative) for Wycombe between 1951 and 1952. He wasParliamentary Private Secretary between 1936 and 1937, to the First Lord of the Admiralty. He held the office of Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1937. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Commander in the service of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserce. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Viscount of Astor [U.K., 1917] on 30 September 1952 and to the title of 3rd Baron Astor, of Hever Castle, co. Kent [U.K., 1916] on 30 September 1952. He held the office of High Steward of Maidenhead. | Astor, William Waldorf Astor (3rd Viscount Astor) (I67752)
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| 215 | Helen Craik wrote poetry, and her manuscript book of her poems includes her 'Lines written on a blank Leaf of Mr Burns's Poems': Here native Genius, gay, unique and strong, Shines through each page, and marks the tuneful song,? Rapt Admiration her warm tribute pays, And Scotia proudly echoes all she says; Bold Independence, too, illumes the theme And claims a manly privilege to fame.? ? Vainly, O Burns! wou'd rank and riches shine, Compar'd with inborn merit great as thine! These Chance may take, as Chance has often giv'n, But powrs like thine can only come from Heav'n (Neilson, 1924, 66). Burns and Helen Craik knew each other. His only known letters to any of the Craiks are addressed to her. She shared her poems with him, and both of his letters to her also enclosed poems. | Craik, Helen (I103462)
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| 216 | Her son Peter ruled as Emperor in 1762 as Elizabeth's heir. She was the Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp by marriage. | Russia, Anna Petrovna Grand Duchess of (I167628)
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| 217 | Her stone says 1917 | Wilcox, Sarah (I103896)
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| 218 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Arthur, Gordon Drake (I81549)
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| 219 | High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire in 1888. | Briscoe, Sir John James (1st Bt) (I97336)
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| 220 | High Sheriff of Essex in 1962. | Pelly, Douglas Gurney (I67992)
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| 221 | In 1437 he obtained the charter for Rocall (Rock Hall) from the Duke of Albany. Before 1465 he held Bordlands. In 1467 he obtained the charter for Glencain. Before 1468 he obtained the charter for Windiehill. In 1475 he obtained the charter for Drumjoan from King James III of Scotland. | Grierson, Vedast (3rd of Lag) (I191077)
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| 222 | In 1565 he was excused by Queen Mary and Lord Darnley from attending their army 'ost' (assembly of landowners and their followers summoned by the sovereign(s) for military service), because of his minority, and from attending the wars all his life for the good service of his predecessors. In 1566 he was granted the hereditary Provostship of Inverkeithing | Henderson, James (3rd of Fordell) (I84693)
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| 223 | In 1636, Sir Alexander Dalmahoy of that ilk, had a charter under the great seal of the lands and barony of Dalmahoy. By his wife, Marion, daughter of James Nesbit of Dean, he had, with four daughters, two sons; John, his heir, and William of Revelbridge, ancestor of the Dalmahoys of Revelbridge. The eldest daughter was married to Henry Trotter of Morton Hall; the second, to Stewart of Blackhall; the third to Alexander Swinton, Lord Mersington; and the fourth, Barbara, to Sir William Scott of Clerkinton, from which marriage descended the Scotts of Maleny, and the Blairs of Blair in Ayrshire.. | Dalmahoy, Sir Alexander Knight (I108311)
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| 224 | in 1888 - died unmarried | Douglas, Isabella More (I79177)
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| 225 | In 1889 he was called as minister to Callander. Three years later he was translated to Largs and in 1909 he became minister of the prestigious charge of St. George's, Edinburgh. | Pagan, Gavin Lang (I192421)
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| 226 | In 1892 while he was a student at Glasgow, John Hamilton Pagan delivered a lecture to the Bothwell Literary Association entitled "The Antiquities of Bothwell" which in book-form ran to two editions and is even today relied on by local historians for its insights into Bothwell's past. At Ayr in 1897, as an assistant minister, he wrote 'The Annals of Ayr in the Olden Time". | Pagan, John Hamilton (I192420)
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| 227 | In 1950 Irmingard married her first cousin, Prince Ludwig of Bavaria. A civil wedding took place at Leutstetten and the religious ceremony followed a day later at Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich. After her father's death in 1955, the couple moved into Schloss Leutstetten, where Princess Irmingard continued to live after her husband's death in 2008. The couple had three children: two daughters who died in infancy and a son, Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, who runs Kaltenberg, one of Bavaria's most successful breweries. Irmingard was born at her father's residence, Schloss Berchtesgaden. She spent her childhood between Berchtesgaden and her father's other residences, the Leuchtenberg Palais in Munich, Schloss Leutstetten, and Schloss Hohenschwangau. In 1936 she was sent to England to be educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Roehampton (later Woldingham School) where several of her cousins, princesses of Luxembourg, were also enrolled. In early 1940 Irmingard and her siblings were allowed to go to Italy and join their father who had left Germany in order to avoid conflict with the Nazi authorities. She spent the rest of the war mostly in Rome, Florence, and Padua. In September 1944 Irmingard was arrested by the Nazis who had been unsuccessful in trying to find and arrest her father. She fell ill from typhus and was sent to a prison hospital in Innsbruck. When she recovered, she was sent to the concentration camp at Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen, where she was reunited with other members of her family who had also been arrested. Later they were transferred to the concentration camps at Flossenb?rg and Dachau, before being freed by the Third American Army, April 30, 1945. Irmingard and her sisters sought refuge in Luxembourg, where their mother's sister Charlotte reigned. After a brief return to Germany, she went to the United States for a year, where her uncle Prince Adolf of Schwarzenberg had a ranch in Montana. | Bavaria, Princess Irmingard Marie Josefa (of Bavaria) (I97643)
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| 228 | in Brough | Douglas, James (I103245)
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| 229 | In February, 1776, being then an infant aged thirteen years, and described as "of Grantham," he was made plaintiff with his father's executors against Henry Doughty, of James Street, Westminster, to recover a rent charge upon premises in Snarford. According to the parchment pedigree he married and had a daughter, but nothing more is known of him. The printed Law List for 1790 gives the name of John Middlemore as an attorney at Nottingham, but we have been unable to trace the admission of any one of his name about that period. | Middlemore, John (I98324)
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| 230 | in Muil | Douglas, John (I103241)
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| 231 | In November 1679 he was imprisoned for high treason, for a conspiracy against the life of the Duke of Lauderdale, but was never tried and in June 1680 he was released for a payment of 50,000 marks. In 1689 he raised a regiment of 600 foot to promote the Revolution | Hamilton, John (2nd Lord Bargeny) (I171675)
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| 232 | In their obituary, they are described as beloved parents of Caroline, James and Sarah. However, they lost two of their sons in their childhood (one at a few months old and the second son at the age of 12). The surviving son (?James) died at 49 years of age, not long after his parents death (?2007). | Douglas, Donald Cameron (I193603)
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| 233 | In World War II he served as Lieutenant in the Scots Guards | Baillie, Brigadier Hon George Evan Michael M.C. (I61732)
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| 234 | Inherited Belmont estate in Grenada and claimed in a Chancery case for three other estates in Grenada as surviving trustee and executor of his father Andrew Houston (q.v.). Described in the compensation records as 'of Clerkington in Co of Haddington' and 'a Colonel in the service of the East India Company' [Legacies of British Slave-ownership] | Houston, Sir Robert (of Clerkington) KCB (I81391)
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| 235 | Interred in the Douglas Family Crypt at the Oak Hill Cemetery, which was erected in 1885 in memory of George Douglas (1816 - 1884). | Douglas, Edward Bruce (I220)
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| 236 | Irene May Sharman 1922-1989 was the grand daughter of Victoria May DOUGLAS 1874-1953 and Christopher Chapman CURTIS 1875-1924. Victoria was known as May. | Douglas, Victoria May (I103678)
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| 237 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Garnier, Sir Edward Henry (I75769)
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| 238 | Isabel had been married twice before her marriage to Littleton, firstly to Ralph Egerton of Wrinehill, and secondly to Sir John Draycott (died May 1522) of Paynsley Hall, near Draycott. | Wood, Isabel (I79846)
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| 239 | Isabella ("Ella") Christie was a noted author and world traveller. | Christie, Isabella Robertson (I71164)
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| 240 | issue, a son | Campbell, Mary (I103361)
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| 241 | It was the eldest son, James, who married Margaret Ochterlony of the Guynd, whose son, James Alexander Pierson, succeed to the Guynd on the death of his uncle, John Ochterlony, in 1843. The Piersons sold Balmadies, since which time it has passed through several proprietors, among whom is Henry Stephen, author of " The Book of the Farm," and a noted agriculturist. (Angus or Forfarshire Part XIV: Angus in Parishes-Rescobie p87-88) | Pearson, James 6th of Balmadies (I143850)
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| 242 | James Clelland Burns lived in Glenlee House, Hamilton around 1870 till 1880, with his wife Louisa and five young daughters, Selina, Jane, Grace, Margaret and later baby Bessie. James was described as a man with no guile, a most trustworthy, amiable and best liked of men. He was instrumental in the establishment of Free Libraries and a supporter of the Organisation of Charity. He was noted as a 'terror to evil-doers, and a prise and protection to them that do well'. James was the second of the two sons of Sir George Burns, who pioneered transatlantic shipping services and was a founder of the Cunard Steamship Co. James became a shipping magnate in his own right in a partnership known as the Burns and Laird Shipping Line, which operated between Scotland and Ireland, transporting cargo, stock and passengers to Belfast, Dublin, Londonderry from Broomlielaw and Greenock. James was also a Director in the Cunard Steamship Co., founded by his father Sir George Burns. James C Burns came from a truly great shipping family. His older brother John succeeded his father Sir George in 1860 to become 1st Baronet of Inverclyde, and inherited the family estate at Wemyss Castle. | Burns, James Clelland (I81847)
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| 243 | James Winch, census record , 1880, Westford twp, Martin County, Minnesota. James Winch, age 38, born Canada, father b. New York, mother b. Canada, James R. Winch, age 15 son, b Minn. Elsie E. age 13, b Minn., Annie J. age 11, born Minn. and Samuel W. Winch age 7, born Minnesota. ( note no wife jca) | Winch, James (I810)
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| 244 | John Graham Smith hyphenated his name during WW2 to make getting his mail easier. He was known as Graham Smith. | Graham-Smith, John (I142870)
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| 245 | John is reported to have sold the ancestral home to the Saverys in the reign of Charles 1 | Williams, John (I84615)
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| 246 | John, third, emigrated to South Carolina, about the middle of the eighteenth century, or a little later, and settled on Buck Swamp, about two miles above the present town of Latta. His brother, William, about the same time, came to South Carolina (or they may have come together), and settled on Sweat Swamp, three or four miles above Harlleesville. These were the progenitors of all the Betheas and their numerous connections in Marion County, and, I suppose, throughout the Western States. | Bethea, William "Sweaty Swamp" (I53896)
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| 247 | Killed in action | Grant, Maj Gen Sir Arthur Lindsay (11th Bart) (I97662)
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| 248 | Killed in action, Aged 21 | Douglas, Claude Campbell Telford (I103626)
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| 249 | known as "the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo | St Clair-Erskine, Francis Edward Scudamore (I80530)
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| 250 | Lady Harriet Kerr, third daughter of William sixth Marquis of Lothian, who survived her husband. She died at London in 1884, truly and sincerely regretted by all, and specially by the people of Fettercairn, who had so long experienced her kindy acts of benevolence and charity. [http://www.electricscotland.com/history/fettercairn/chapter12.htm] | Kerr, Harriet Louise Anne (I191849)
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