Among those with reservations are Messrs. and Mmes. William A. Thompson, Van Cott Niven, A. B. Cox, David Bricker, Samuel Perry and Robert D. Stetson.

David Niven was born in London to William Edward Graham Niven ( 1878 – 1915 ) and Henrietta Julia Degacher.

William Niven, David's father, was of Scottish descent ; his paternal grandfather, David Graham Niven, ( 1811 – 1884 ) was from St. Martins, a village in Perthshire.

The Moon Is Blue is a 1953 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Otto Preminger and starring William Holden, David Niven, and Maggie McNamara.

" The 1931 edition states that “ all matter of science in this work are based on translations of two sets of ancient tablets :” the clay tables he read in India, and a collection 2, 500 stone tablets that had been uncovered by William Niven in Mexico.

Arthur C. Clarke and Larry Niven retaliated by writing the award-winning stories Death and the Senator, Fallen Angels, and The Return of William Proxmire.

On this poster it is directed by William Wyler and stars Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon and David Niven ( the real director and stars of the 1939 version of Wuthering Heights ).

The Westerner ( 1940 ) is an American film directed by William Wyler, and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, and Doris Davenport, and written by Niven Busch, Stuart N. Lake, and Jo Swerling,

* Copies of Stone Tablets Found by William Niven at Santiago Ahuizoctla Near Mexico City ( 1927 )

His family, like many Wallaces, claimed a connection to William Wallace, a Scottish patriot and leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 13th century.

* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )

He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont.

* 1903 – William Primrose, Scottish violist ( d. 1982 )

His uncle, George Lauder, whom he referred to as " Dod ", introduced him to the writings of Robert Burns and historical Scottish heroes such as Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, and Rob Roy.

* 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.

Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.

Housman himself acknowledged the influence of the songs of William Shakespeare, the Scottish Border ballads and Heinrich Heine, but specifically denied any influence of Greek and Latin classics in his poetry.

In 1864 William Wallace Mitchell ( 1803 – 1884 ), a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, published his " Manual of Bowls Playing " following his work as the secretary formed in 1849 by Scottish bowling clubs which became the basis of the rules of the modern game.

Gibson portrays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England.

Fans come from all over the world to see the places in Scotland where William Wallace fought for Scottish freedom, and also to the places in Scotland and Ireland to see the locations used in the film.

In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.

Standing at above sea level, it is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William.

One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.

William Aiton, a Scottish botanist, included an entry for the cranberry in volume II of his 1789 work, Hortus Kewensis.

The Scottish poet William Soutar also wrote over one hundred American Cinquains ( he labelled them Epigrams ) between 1933 and 1940.

William " Captain " Kidd ( c. 1645 – 23 May 1701 ) was a Scottish sailor remembered for his trial and execution for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean.

In many Christadelphian hymn books a sizeable proportion of hymns are drawn from the Scottish Psalter and non-Christadelphian hymn-writers including Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, William Cowper and John Newton.

The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.

* 1649 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet ( b. 1585 )

* 1585 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet ( d. 1649 )

Ownership has changed many times, past owners including the Scottish publisher A & C Black, Horace Everett Hooper, Sears Roebuck and William Benton.

By the 1930s, the five-line cinquain verse form became widely known in the poetry of the Scottish poet William Soutar.

Amongst the first eminent overseas visitors to Staffa were Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, a wealthy French zoologist and mineralogist and the American architect and naturalist William Thornton.

** William Phipps Blake ( 1826 – 1910 ), American mineralogist and geologist

In addition to Brown, the scientific staff comprised the renowned botanical illustrator Ferdinand Bauer ; the gardener Peter Good, whose task was to collect live plants and viable seed for the use of Kew Gardens ; the miner John Allen, appointed as mineralogist ; the landscape artist William Westall ; and the astronomer John Crosley, who would fall ill on the voyage out and leave the ship at the Cape of Good Hope.

* William Phillips ( geologist ) ( 1775 – 1828 ), British mineralogist who founded the Geological Society of London

William Phillips FGS FRS ( 10 May 1775 – 2 April 1828 ) was an English mineralogist and geologist.

* William Gregor ( 1761 – 1817 ), mineralogist, discoverer of titanium

* William Hallowes Miller ( 1801 – 1880 ), British mineralogist and crystallographer

It is named after the English chemist and mineralogist William Hyde Wollaston ( 1766 – 1828 ).

William Hallowes Miller FRS ( 6 April 1801 – 20 May 1880 ), British mineralogist and crystallographer.

William Gregor ( 25 December 1761 – 11 June 1817 ) was the British clergyman and mineralogist who discovered the elemental metal titanium.

William Babington FRS FGS ( 21 May 1756 – 29 April 1833 ) was a British physician and mineralogist.

In 1875, Colonel William Ludlow, who had been part of Custer's gold exploration effort, invited Grinnell to serve as naturalist and mineralogist on an expedition to Montana and the newly established Yellowstone Park.