Citizen Skirving, Secretary to the British Convention. A tried patriot and an honest man
William Skirving (c. 1745 – 1796) was one of the five Scottish Martyrs for Liberty. Active in the cause of universal franchise and other reforms inspired by the French Revolution, they were convicted of sedition in 1793–94, and sentenced to transportation to New South Wales.
WilliamSkirving (c. 1745 – 1796) was one of the five Scottish Martyrs for Liberty. Active in the cause of universal franchise and other reforms inspired...
Skirving is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adam Skirving (1719–1803), Scottish songwriter Alexander Skirving (1868–1935), trade union...
mark occasions other than a person's death. In 1793 one was made for WilliamSkirving after he was sentenced to penal transportation. Cesar Picton, d. 1836...
by armed bailiffs upon Skirving, Margarot, Gerrald, Sinclair and Matthew Campbell Browne. In the trials which followed, Skirving, Margarot and Gerrald...
inscription reads: To the memory of Thomas Muir, Thomas Fyshe-Palmer, WilliamSkirving, Maurice Margarot, and Joseph Gerrald, erected by the Friends of Parliamentary...
Sinclair of Ulbster (1754–1835) writer, statistician WilliamSkirving (c.1745–1796) political reformer William Smellie (1740–1795) editor of the first edition...
English philanthropist, transported to New South Wales for theft WilliamSkirving (c. 1745–1796), Scottish political reformer, transported to New South...
physiology of coral bleaching". In Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Jonathan T. Phinney, WilliamSkirving, Joanie Kleypas (eds.). Coral Reefs and Climate Change: Science and...
Viscount Thurso (1890–1970), Liberal Party leader from 1935 to 1945 WilliamSkirving (c. 1745–1796), radical Ian Smith (1919–2007), Prime Minister of Rhodesia...
befell the secretary of a second Edinburgh convention in October, 1793, WilliamSkirving, and the two LCS delegates. Joseph Gerrald and LCS chairman Maurice...
associated groups like The Dundee Friends of Liberty were Thomas Muir, WilliamSkirving, Maurice Margarot and Joseph Gerrald. These five were transported to...
Fyshe Palmer and WilliamSkirving. The source for this claim was information provided by this ships' superintendent of convicts William Baker, a British...
Surprize, along with the so-called Scottish Martyrs, Thomas Muir, WilliamSkirving and Maurice Margarot, embarking in February but sailing in April 1794...
Parr. Gerrald's associates included Thomas Muir, Thomas Fyshe Palmer, WilliamSkirving and Maurice Margarot. His name appears on the Political Martyrs' Monument...
Scot Skirving (1859–1956) was a physician and surgeon in Australia. He was born in the United Kingdom. The University of Sydney named the Scot Skirving Prize...
People. Concern for the reformers Thomas Muir, Thomas Fyshe Palmer and WilliamSkirving led him to visit them as convicts on board the hulks, when awaiting...
siblings, one of whom was fellow suffragette Margaret Skirving Gibb. She was a descendant of WilliamSkirving, one of the five Scottish Martyrs for Liberty....
1857 when there was a private school of the same name located nearby in Skirving Street. This private school became state-owned and was then called Crossmyloof...
Perhaps the best-known legacy of the battle are two songs written by Skirving, a local farmer who visited the battlefield later the same day and was...
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Ewart, John Skirving. The Kingdom of Canada: Imperial Federation, the Colonial Conferences,...
into a hotel from a family home by Geoffrey Huskinson's daughter, Imogen Skirving (1937–2016). who inherited it from her father in 1968 and at that time...
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