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Author : Bradford Garniss
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (314 download)
Download or read book The Life and Times of George Dempster written by Bradford Garniss and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Evans
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844151514
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book The Gentleman Usher written by John Evans and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Dempster was a giant of a man who became one of the best-known and most deservedly popular Scotsman of his day. He served for thirty years as a Member of Parliament in Westminster and was closely involved with the expansion of British influence and trade across the world particularly in India and North America. This was the age of Empire building and intense rivalry between competing imperial powers, which led to protracted warfare. A lawyer by training, Dempster was at the heart of political and business life and his circle of friends was large and powerful. Yet power did not corrupt him and he was respected by allies and opponents alike, being known as 'Honest George'. Laird of estates at Skibo in Sutherland and Dunnichen in Angus, Dempster's energy was legendary and he used his talents as reformer, innovator, entrepreneur and developer to bring prosperity and jobs to disadvantaged regions of his beloved Scotland. Dempster was more than an observer of history; he made it. This highly detailed biography of a major but hitherto little known figure of the period gives a rare insight into the political life of the Georgian era, covering the growth of British rule in India, loss of North America during the War of Independence and the years of constant conflict with France. The Gentleman Usher, this superbly researched work with its copious illustrations, is an important and authoritative addition to the bibliography of Scottish history of the period.
Author : John Evans
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473814588
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Gentleman Usher written by John Evans and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Dempster was a giant of a man who became one of the best-known and most deservedly popular Scotsman of his day.He served for thirty years as an MP in Westminster and was closely involved with the expansion of British influence and trade across the world particularly in India and North America. This was the age of Empire building and great rivalry between competing powers, particularly France, which led to protracted warfare.A trained lawyer, Dempster was at the heart of political and business life and his circle of friends was large and powerful. Yet power did not corrupt him and he was respected by allies and opponents, being known as 'Honest George'. Master of the famous Skibo Estate in Sutherland, Dempster's energy was legendary and he used his talents as an entrepreneur and developer, bringing prosperity and jobs to disadvantaged regions.Dempster was more than an observer of history; he made it.
Author : George Soper- Dempster
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Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book George Dempster, of Skibo. In memoriam written by George Soper- Dempster and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Munro Lang
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Total Pages : 364 pages
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Download or read book A Life of George Dempster, Scottish M.P. of Dunnichen (1732-1818) written by Andrew Munro Lang and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Dempster (of Skibo)
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book George Dempster (of Skibo) written by George Dempster (of Skibo) and published by . This book was released on 188? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Fergusson
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ISBN 13 : 9781845300036
Total Pages : 420 pages
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Download or read book Letters of George Dempster to Sir Adam Fergusson, 1756-1813 written by James Fergusson and published by . This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Dempster of Dunnichen, a man of humour and spontaneous wit, was one of the young men moving in that brilliant society of intellect which adorned Edinburgh in the 1750s. The affection and respect which he commanded in his lifetime sprang partly from personal charm and partly from the integrity and altruism of his public life. This Correspondence to his closest friend, the respectable and 'aith-detesting' Sir Adam Fergusson of Kilkerran, compensates for a biography which, perhaps because the Dempster family papers disappeared, has never been written. One of the first landlords to treat his tenants with humanity and generosity, his benevolence and wide vision earned him the respect of Sir John Sinclair and Patrick Tytler, among many others. This edition includes additional letters and notes from material discovered after the original publication in 1934.
Author : George Dempster
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (488 download)
Download or read book George Dempster Correspondence written by George Dempster and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Rennie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191623695
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots written by Susan Rennie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full account of the making of John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. The dictionary was published in two volumes in 1808, with a two-volume Supplement following in 1825. Lists of Scots words had been compiled before, but Jamieson's was the first complete dictionary of the language. It was a landmark in the development of historical lexicography and was an inspiration for later lexicographers, including Sir James Murray, founding editor of the OED. Susan Rennie's account of Jamieson's work and the methods he developed interweaves biography, lexicography, and linguistic, social, and book history to present a rounded account of the man, his work, and his times. It is the first study to draw on Jamieson's correspondence and the surviving manuscript materials for the Dictionary and Supplement to reveal Jamieson's working methods and the important contributions made by Sir Walter Scott and others to his work.
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030025038X
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo written by James Boswell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, documents the long friendship between Boswell and Sir William Forbes This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, collects the letters exchanged between lawyer, diarist, and biographer James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, eminent Scottish banker, civic improver, philanthropist, literary and cultural patron, and lay leader of Edinburgh's "English Episcopal" community. Forbes served as Boswell's most valued Scottish advisor, to whom he would often turn for personal, financial, moral, and religious guidance, and whom he would name executor of his estate and co-guardian of his children. The volume includes a total of 111 comprehensively annotated letters, few of which have appeared previously in print, between Forbes and Boswell and other correspondents. It illuminates in particular the period in which Boswell moved from Edinburgh to London and wrote his major books, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson and The Life of Samuel Johnson.
Author : John Bastin
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9810972369
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Family of Sir Stamford Raffles written by John Bastin and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book George Dempster Correspondence written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Dempster
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Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Letters of George Dempster to Sir Adam Fergusson, 1756-1813 written by George Dempster and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Boswell
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Total Pages : 766 pages
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Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Orchart BEETON
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Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book Beeton's British Biography. From the earliest times to the accession of George III., etc written by Samuel Orchart BEETON and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George McGilvary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857712284
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book East India Patronage and the British State written by George McGilvary and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Act of Union in 1707 brought with it a new 'Great Britain'. How did the English bind the Scottish elites to the new British State, ensuring the stability of this new power in the face of possible Jacobite and international threat? From 1725 a patronage system existed in Britain enabling government ministries to use posts in the East India Company and its shipping to secure political majorities in Scotland and Westminster. Scots went to India as Company servants, ships' crews, soldiers and free-merchants, bringing back exceptional wealth to a land starved of money and providing for commercial and industrial advances throughout Great Britain. The importance of the system of patronage which enabled so many Scots to go to the East has not hitherto been recognised and cannot be overestimated. It bound the Scots with their English neighbours in business, political management and empire, with consequences going far beyond the eighteenth century.
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Author : John Mackay Wilson
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Total Pages : 610 pages
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Download or read book Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland; with an Illustrative Glossary of the Scottish Dialect. [With Plates.] written by John Mackay Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
