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* Skene, William Forbes, Chronicles of the Picts, Chronicles of the Scots: And Other Early Memorials of Scottish History ( 1867 ).
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William Forbes Skene reads the Chronicle as placing Causantín's death at Inverdovat ( by Newport-on-Tay ), which appears to match the Prophecy of Berchán.
William Forbes Skene and Alan Orr Anderson proposed that it should be read as " in conformity with the customs of the Gaels ", relating it to the claims in the king lists that Giric liberated the church from secular oppression and adopted Irish customs.
Later 19th century historians such as William Forbes Skene brought new standards of accuracy to early Scottish history, while Celticists such as Whitley Stokes and Kuno Meyer cast a critical eye over Welsh and Irish sources.
Fur traders included Manuel Lisa, Robert Stuart, William Henry Ashley, Jedediah Smith, William Sublette, Andrew Henry, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Peter Skene Ogden, David Thompson, James Douglas, Donald Mackenzie, Alexander Ross, James Sinclair and other mountain men.
The antiquary, William Forbes Skene even considered it the probable location of the settlement named Corda in Ptolemy's Geographia.
William Forbes Skene viewed the conflict between Donald III and Duncan II as being essentially a conflict between " the Celtic and the Saxon laws of succession ".
Entries in the Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, collected by William Forbes Skene, provide the account of Finnguala killing Kenneth II in revenge, but not her affiliation to Constantine or his cousins.
In 1871 and 1872 Fordun's chronicle, in the original Latin and in an English translation, was edited by William F Skene in The Historians of Scotland.
William Forbes Skene ( 7 June 1809 – 29 August 1892 ), Scottish historian and antiquary, was the second son of Sir Walter Scott's friend, James Skene ( 1775 – 1864 ), of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen.
However, Rachel Bromwich notes that such an identification has little to back it ; other writers, such as Thomas Stephens and William Forbes Skene, identify Flamdwyn instead with Ida's son Theodric, noting the passages in the genealogies discussing Theodric's battles with Urien and his sons.
Skene and Forbes
However, historian William Forbes Skene commented: " It is somewhat remarkable that while the Scotch legend brings the stone at Scone from Ireland, the Irish legend brings the stone at Tara from Scotland.
Scholars such as William Forbes Skene noted that this description matches Tacitus ' description of the Caledonians as red haired in his Agricola.
Skene and Chronicles
The most important of Skene's other works are: editions of John of Fordun's Chronica gentis Scotorum ( Edinburgh, 1871 – 1872 ); of the Four Ancient Books of Wales ( Edinburgh, 1868 ); of the Chronicles of the Picts and Scots ( Edinburgh, 1867 ); and of Adomnán's Vita S. Columbae ( Edinburgh, 1874 ); an Essay on the Coronation Stone of Scone ( Edinburgh, 1869 ); and Memorials of the Family of Skene of Skene ( Aberdeen, 1887 ).
Skene and Picts
The nineteenth century historian William F. Skene claimed the Isle of Lismore was the sacred island of the Western Picts and the burial place of their kings whose capital was at Beregonium, across the water at Benderloch.
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Westhill contains many youth orientated groups, which include: the Scout hut on Old Skene Road ; the Boy's Brigade ( held every week in Westhill Academy ), the Air Training Corps squadron on Brodiach Road ; Script, Screen to Stage ( established approximately 2005 ), an acting and filming group that normally takes place at Westdyke Leisure Centre ; And Youth clubs and other activities at the community centre, situated within the Academy.
Skene and Other
: Other titles ( 1st Duke ): Duke of Fife and Marquess of Macduff ( UK 1889 ), Earl Fife and Viscount Macduff ( Ir 1759 ), Baron Braco, of Klbryde in the county of Cavan ( Ir 1735 ) and Baron Skene, of Skene in the county of Aberdeen ( UK 1857 )
Other HBC trappers who made early use of the Siskiyou Trail include Peter Skene Ogden and Michel Laframboise.
Skene and Scottish
Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene ( 17th June 1837 – 4th July 1900 ) was a British ( Scottish ) gynaecologist who described what became known as the Skene's glands.
William Forbes Skene | Skene's map of Scottish bishoprics in the reign of David I of Scotland | David I ( reigned 1124 – 1153 ).
William Forbes Skene | Skene's map of Scottish bishoprics in the reign of David I of Scotland | David I ( reigned 1124 – 1153 ).
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Skene noted that this could be an error, and suggested that Kenneth, son of Malcolm was actually Kenneth III ( Kenneth, son of Dubh ).
On 7 August 1879, he succeeded his father as 6th Earl Fife in the Peerage of Ireland ( and as 2nd Baron Skene in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which title gave him a seat in the House of Lords ).
Born Edith Agnes Kathleen Bruce at Carlton in Lindrick, Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, she was the youngest of eleven children of Canon Lloyd Stuart Bruce ( 1829 – 1886 ) and Jane Skene ( d. 1880 ).
Carbantorigum was at the Moat of Urr according to Skene, and Rhys thought the name derived from Carbantorion ( chariot town ).
Examples include White ( Cleveland ), Eclipse ( Easton, MA ), Cotta ( Lanark, IL ), Crouch ( New Brighton, PA ), Hood ( Danvers, MA ; lasted just one month ), Kidder ( New Haven, CT ), Century ( Syracuse, NY ), and Skene ( Lewiston, ME ; the company built everything but the tires ).
* Alexander Skene, MD-authority on women ’ s diseases ; discovered the paraurethral glands known as Skene ’ s ducts ( 1880 ).
Continuing north out of Redmond, one enters a high desert region marked by numerous deep river gorges, including the Crooked River gorge ( which 97 passes over near the Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint and rest area ).
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