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Category Archives: People

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Eliza Armstrong

Aug 18, 2022Eric CorbettPeople

Young girl at the centre of a major prostitution scandal in 1885 that led to the age of consent for females being raised from 13 to 16.

Arthur John Lewis Gordon

Oct 10, 2020Georgie DarcyPeopleNot on Wikipedia

Diplomat, artist and collector; owner of Ellon Castle from 1880s.

James Gordon, baillie

Jul 25, 2020Georgie DarcyPeopleNot on Wikipedia

James Gordon was an affluent merchant, baillie of Edinburgh, and owner Fortalice of Ardgith, now Ellon Castle.

Eleanor Thornton

May 9, 2019Eric CorbettAutomobiles, People

Inspiration for the Rolls-Royce flying lady mascot.

Peter Beatty

May 3, 2019Georgie DarcyPeople

English racehorse owner, businessman and aristocrat

Gertrude Agnew

Jan 8, 2019Georgie DarcyPeopleFacebook post, Not on Wikipedia

Biography of socialite Gertrude Vernon, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, who gained prestige and notoriety from her portrait by artist John Singer Sargent.

Joseph Denison (banker)

Dec 21, 2018Georgie DarcyPeople

A wealthy banker and owner of the Denbies estate in Surrey.

Hugh Stowell

Aug 2, 2018Eric CorbettPeople

Church of England clergyman with a reputation as a vigorous firebrand of a preacher.

Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert

Jun 26, 2018Georgie DarcyPeople

Geologist, cattle breeder, an active feminist and creator of the MacRobert Trust, a charity that supports the RAF and others

Thomas Sheridan

Jun 9, 2018Georgie DarcyPeople

Thomas Sheridan (1775 – 1817), known as Tom Sheridan, was the only son of the playwright and poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the soprano Elizabeth Ann Linley

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