JamesSkene of Rubislaw FSA Scot FRSE FGS (1775–1864) was a Scottish lawyer and amateur artist, best known as a friend of Sir Walter Scott. The second...
James Henry Skene (3 May 1812 – 3 October 1886) was a writer, traveller and British Consul at Aleppo from March 1855 to 1880. He was born at Inverie,...
He was born in Inverey, the second son of Sir Walter Scott's friend, JamesSkene (1775–1864), of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen, and his wife, Jane Forbes, daughter...
Greek independence. Amongst those early travellers and archaeologists were James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, who were commissioned by the Society of Dilettanti...
Clan Skene is a Scottish clan. The traditional origin of the Clan Skene is found in a legend of the Clan Robertson in the eleventh century. It is said...
Skene or Skeyne (1523-1599) was a physician at the Scottish royal court 1522/3 - 1599 He was born at Bandodle, Aberdeenshire. His father JamesSkene,...
The Skene Baronetcy, of Curriehill, was a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 22 February 1628 for JamesSkene, Lord Curriehill....
Philip Wharton Skene (5 February 1725 in London, England – 10 June 1810 near Stoke Goldington, Buckinghamshire) was a Scottish officer in the British...
Peter Skene Ogden (alternately Skeene, Skein, or Skeen; baptised 12 February 1790 – 27 September 1854) was a British-Canadian fur trader and an early...
Grimm's entry in his Deutsches Wörterbuch. An etymology suggested by JamesSkene in 1824 derives the word from Baumgericht (Lit. "Tree law"), supposedly...
over the family of Andrew Skene and that of JamesSkene of Rubislaw. JamesSkene was the youngest surviving child of George Skene of Rubislaw (1736-1776)...
Siddons, husband of Harriet Siddons Sir JamesSkene (died 1633), President of the College of Justice John Skene, Lord Curriehill (died 1617) William Smellie...
his death in 1857. Later that year, the 5th Earl was created Baron Skene, of Skene in the County of Aberdeen, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. In...
friend: William Stewart Rose, The Rev. John Marriot, William Erskine, JamesSkene, George Ellis, and Richard Heber: the epistles develop themes of moral...
continued in favour during the reign of Charles I and, on the death of Sir JamesSkene of Curriehill in October 1633, Spottiswood was, on Charles's recommendation...
free. In contrast, Kirkcaldy of Grange, his brother James and two jewellers, James Mossman and James Cokke, who had been minting coins in Mary's name inside...
of events seems to imply a degree of planning, thought to be the work of James Maxwell, an Edinburgh journeyman carpenter, together with a small group...
s4-VI (148): 377–378. doi:10.1093/nq/s4-vi.148.377-g. Grant, Sir Francis James (1945). Court of the Lord Lyon: List of His Majesty's Officers of Arms and...
the Forth, (he received a pension for holding this post in 1374). 1437: James Douglas, Earl of Avondale and Lord Balveny 1446: Patrick de Ogilvy, Justiciary...
rediscovered by workmen digging a drain near the Wellhouse Tower of the Castle. JamesSkene of Rubislaw, who was present at the work in the gardens, reported that...
Royal Society of Edinburgh, unusual for an architect, his proposer being JamesSkene. In 1825, he took on a pupil, David Bryce. In 1841, they went into partnership...
lieutenant in the 79th Highlanders. His third daughter married George Skene, son of JamesSkene of Rubislaw. In the 2010 motion picture Burke and Hare, Monro...
manuscript material deriving from continental journeys by his friend JamesSkene of Rubislaw. For his gipsy material Scott relied largely on two works:...
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