Everyone at his event knew he was about to arrive because they could hear the skirling of the pipes before he appeared from behind a grassy hill.
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" In the modern telling, the birds become gulls wheeling above Brighton's Marine Parade, skirling, shrieking, shouting for bread crumbs: "each waiting for its turn to snatch a portion of allotted grace.
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This is a list of listed buildings in the civil parish of Skirling in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.
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He was envoy to Prussia from 1741–42, to Russia from 1744–49 and to Vienna from 1752–64. He was succeeded by John Carmichael, the son of his uncle, William Carmichael of Skirling.
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The Canongate Tolbooth, Edinburgh from the west The Tolbooth (a Covenanting prison) and St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh John Greig (c. 1617-17 May 1689) was a Presbyterian minister from Scotland. He was the minister of Skirling, a small parish in the western side of Peeblesshire, subsequent to the year 1649. Anderson relates that "of his history while in that charge, as well as during the earlier part of his life, nothing is now known." Greig was ejected from Skirling by the Act of 1662.
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Lord Carmichael married the Hon. Mary Helen Elizabeth, daughter of Baron Albert Nugent, in 1886. They had no children. He died at 13 Portman Street, London, in January 1926, aged 66, and was buried at Skirling, Biggar, Lanarkshire.
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In 1837 he was translated to the parish of Skirling in Peebles-shire, near Biggar. During the ten year controversy that preceded the Disruption of 1843, he took an active part on the side of Chalmers and his allies. He left the established Church of Scotland in 1843, joining the Free Church of Scotland, taking most of his congregation with him. Having resigned his charge at Skirling in 1838, Hanna removed permanently to Edinburgh, where in 1850 he was called to be assistant to Thomas Guthrie, as minister of St. John's Free Church on Johnstone Terrace near Edinburgh Castle.
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The Cockburns of Skirling had a long military tradition going back hundreds of years. According to his epitaph, Major Cockburn had military experience in Germany and France.Charles Dalton, The Scots Army 1661-1688: With Memoirs of the Commanders-in-Chief, Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd., London, 1909.
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And all the long night be heard skirling and groans. All along, down along, out along lea. From Tom Pearce's old mare in her rattling bones, With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all.
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The A72 near Wolfclyde between Symington and Biggar This section of the road follows the course of the A702 for approximately 3 miles through the town of Biggar. The A72 enters the village of Skirling before ascending onto higher moorland. This section of road is notorious for accidents due to its high elevation, poor weather and winding route.
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Carmichael College is an educational institution in Rangpur, Bangladesh. It was established on 10 November 1916 and was named after Thomas David Baron Carmichael of Skirling. The college is situated in Lalbag, to the south from zero point of the Rangpur town. Having an area of 900 bighas (298 acres), it is the largest college of Bangladesh.
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Rose Leslie Ygritte (seasons 2–4) portrayed by Rose Leslie. A Wildling girl with red hair ("kissed by fire", a sign of luck among the Wildlings) and a follower of Mance Rayder. In Season 2, she is captured in the Skirling Pass by Jon Snow and Qhorin Halfhand. She manages to escape, but is recaptured by Jon, separating him from his brothers in the process.
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Robert Wodrow, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, vol. II, Blackie and Son, Glasgow, 1832. Major William's father had been the laird of the Barony of Skirling, but likely financial difficulties required him to sell the property in 1621.Cockburn, Sir Robert, and Harry A. Cockburn, The Records of the Cockburn Family, T. N. Foulis, London, 1913.
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The casket in the Scottish National War Memorial, by Thomas Hadden (1927) Ornamental railings by Thomas Hadden at Skirling Hadden was born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire in 1871. He came from an ironworking family, and served an apprenticeship at Howgate near Edinburgh; he then worked for James Milne and Sons in Edinburgh, and in London. In 1901 he founded a business with his brother, a woodcarver.Thomas Hadden Grace's Guide to British Industrial History.
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A note in the manuscript records that it was presented by William Foulis of Woodhall, a descendant of Bannatyne,Scott's memoir of Bannatyne to William Carmichael of Skirling in 1712. In the early Eighteenth Century, Allan Ramsay reproduced pieces from the manuscript in his compilation The Ever Green between 1724 and 1727.Ramsay's The Ever Green The manuscript was acquired by the Advocates' Library of Edinburgh in 1772.A transcript of the manuscript (Volume 1 of 4) at archive.
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William Cockburn married Marie Melrose and they had one son William and five daughters Elizabeth, Jane, Francisina, Marie and Sarah. Evidently the son followed the family's military tradition: he was referred to as a lieutenant in 1692 when he was retoured heir to his father. Lieutenant Cockburn apparently did not have any male descendants, and so he appears to have been the last of the Cockburns of Skirling. Lieutenant-Colonel Cockburn died at Stonie-fle (Standenflat, Aberdeenshire) on 6 June 1683.
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There are multiple theories of the origin of Leving (Anglo-Saxon, Fleming, Frank, Norman, and even Hungarian). In the mid seventeenth century James Livingston of Skirling, who was of a branch of these Lowland Livingstons, was granted a nineteen-year lease of the Bishoprics of Argyll and the Isles. Sometime before 1648, James Livingston seems to have stayed at Achanduin Castle on Lismore, and it is thought that around this time that the surname Livingstone would have been adopted by MacLeas on the island.
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Robert Cockburn (died 1526) was a 16th-century Scottish diplomat and cleric. Robert Cockburn was the third son of William Cockburn of Skirling and Cessford and Marion daughter of Lord Crichton of Sanquhar.Cockburn-Hood, Thomas H., The House of Cockburn of that Ilk, Edinburgh (1888), p.228 Cockburn was a university graduate, and appears for the first time in 1501 when he was presented to James IV of Scotland for the position of parson of Dunbar, being styled "Master Robert Cockburn, dean of Rouen".
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The company produced gates, railings, and other features including weather vanes and shop sign. Hadden's work for Robert Lorimer included the wrought iron gates for the Thistle Chapel in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh (1911), and the casket for the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh (1927). Other commissions included railings for Lord Carmichael's house in Skirling. After the Second World War, commissions by the firm included the Quincentenery gates for the University of Glasgow (1952) and the memorial gates for George Heriot's School (1959).
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He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1908, a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1911 and a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India in 1917. In 1912 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Carmichael, of Skirling in the County of Peebles. Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee created a post Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture,after his name. Carmichael College in Rangpur, Bangladesh is named after and was inaugurated by him in 1916.
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A poem added to the appendices by Allan Ramsay in 1726 pays tribute to the poetry of the Bannatyne Manuscript and records his use of it in compiling "The Ever Green" of 1724, while borrowed from Carmichael of Skirling. It would be the last addition to the manuscript. > In Seventeen hundred twenty-four, Did Allan Ramsay keen, gather from this > book that store, Which fills his Ever Green. Thrice fifty and sax towmonds > neat, Frae when it was colected, Let worthy poets hope good fate, Throw time > they'll be respected.
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446 no. 717. Along the way, Moray captured houses belonging to supporters of Queen Mary, including Lord Fleming's Boghall, Skirling, Crawford, Sanquhar, Kenmure, and Hoddom where the cannon were deployed, and Annan where he rendezvoused with Lord Scrope the Captain of Carlisle Castle to discuss border matters. Scrope estimated the army to number 6,000 men, and returned to Carlisle where he saw Queen Mary's servants play football on 14 June. Moray then took Lochmaben Castle, which the Laird of Drumlanrig was left to hold, and then captured Lochwood and Lochhouse before returning to Edinburgh via Peebles.
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The greatly enlarged Cockburn lands were split up among Sir Alexander's three sons; however, the barony of Langton and Carriden remained with the eldest son Alexander. For the next 400 years, the Cockburns of Langton were prominent landowners in Berwickshire. Other branches of the family acquired estates in Ormiston and Clerkington (just southwest of Haddington) in East Lothian. The Cockburns of Henderland held land in Megget then in southern Peeblesshire, while the Cockburns of Skirling held land in the western part of Peebleshire. William Cockburn of Henderland was a notorious border reiver in early part of the 16th century.
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Major William Cockburn (c1605-1683) was the son of William Cockburn (late of Skirling) and Joneta Hamilton, the daughter of Sir James Hamilton of Libberton. Major Cockburn is best known for his role as a Scottish Royalist cavalry leader during the Restoration, when the government of King Charles II sought to forcibly re-impose episcopacy on the Church of Scotland, in violation of the Treaty of Breda that was signed by Charles with the Covenanters in 1650. In the 1670s Major Cockburn was placed in charge of pursuing and capturing Covenanter leaders. Most notably, in June 1673 he captured Alexander Peden at Knockdow near Ballantrae, Ayrshire.
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Behind was the "carriage", namely the artillery train, followed by Moray himself. The Laird of Cessford followed, and the army was flanked by the scouting parties of the lairds of the Merse and Buccleuch. Along the way Moray captured castles belonging to Mary's supporters, including Lord Fleming's castle of Boghall, as well as Skirling Castle, Crawford Castle, Sanquhar Castle, Kenmure Castle, and Hoddom Castle, where the cannon were deployed, and Annan where he rendezvoused with Lord Scrope, the Captain of Carlisle Castle, to discuss border matters. Scrope estimated the Regent's army at 6,000 men. He then returned to Carlisle where he saw Queen Mary's servants play football on 14 June.
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" Comparing the album to David Bowie's then- new drum and bass-influenced single "Little Wonder" (1997), he said "Bailey's use of drum'n'bass could never be suspected of cashing in on a fad." More reserved in his assessment was Rick Anderson of AllMusic. He called the album's concept "a brilliant idea, and one that should have worked much better," writing that "Bailey plays with his usual ferocity, skirling out ideas at such a rate that it's hard to keep up -- at times, he even plays in tempo with DJ Ninj's double-speed breakbeats, a feat that is impressive physically, not to say musically. But in other places he sounds hesitant, as if baffled by the clattering torrent of rhythm.
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The Good Life is the third studio album by the bluegrass/jam band Railroad Earth, released on June 8, 2004. So many jam bands seem to forget the importance of good song writing with meaningful lyrics. Railroad Earth's songs are well-crafted stories, and are delivered with outstanding musicianship and strong vocals. The musical duties are distributed in pretty much the same way here as on their previous two releases: Todd Sheaffer handles vocals and guitar and does the bulk of the songwriting; John Skehan, Tim Carbone, and Andy Goessling provide the band's trademark swirling-and-skirling texture; new bassist Johnny Grubb (replacing Dave Von Dollen) and percussionist Carey Harmon provide the solid ground they take off from and land on.
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Laurence H. Cleat, Castles of the Cockburns, History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, vol. 47, no. 2, 1997, pp. 152-159 The Tower and surrounding land were auctioned off in 1696 to pay off the debts of Sir James Cockburn of that Ilk. In 1330, Sir Alexander de Cokburne became the Baron of Langton (in Berwickshire), Carriden (in West Lothian) and Bolton (in East Lothian) following his marriage to the wealthy Anglo-Norman heiress Mariota de Veteriponte (also known as Maria de Vipont).McAndrew, Bruce A., Scotland's Historic Heraldry, Boydell Press, Woodbridge, U.K., 2006, . The Langton estate was located to the southwest of Duns, about 6 km from Cockburn Tower. Sir Alexander's second marriage to the heiress Maria de Monfode added the estate of Skirling (in Peeblesshire).
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The band was formed in 1998 by lead singer and songwriter John Blain Hunt (well known in the Scott Glasgow indie music scene as the organiser of club night National Pop League).Profit In Your Poetry review, Uncut, April 2007 Hunt had previously used ‘Butcher Boy’ as a pen name when submitting poetry to newspapers.Profit In Your Poetry review, The Metro, 12 March 2007 The band has its roots in Ayrshire (where Hunt grew up) but is now Glasgow-based. The core band has been augmented by string and brass musicians for live performances and recordings. On record, they first appeared in August 2006 on the HDIF label’s compilation The Kids at the Club with their song Days Like This Will Be The Death Of Me, described as “wonderful” (though “Smiths- indebted”) by the Guardian."The F&M; playlist", The Guardian, 11 August 2006 Their first album, Profit In Your Poetry, was released in April 2007 (having been preceded by download-only single, Girls Make Me Sick) and attracted overwhelmingly positive reviews, described as “flipping from string-skirling kitchen sink dramas to Motown bluster”, “a promising debut”,Profit In Your Poetry review, The Guardian, 9 March 2007 and having “an instant and addictive charm that even Mozzer would be proud of”.
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