The original Closeburn school was founded in 1723 by John Wallace, a merchant in Glasgow and native of Closeburn.

In his native Glasgow he is commemorated by a statue in George Square, and in England by a monument in St Paul's Cathedral and an equestrian statue at Shorncliffe.

Pelagius is the subject of a poem by the Glasgow poet Edwin Morgan (' Cathures ', Carcanet 2002 ) which imagines that Pelagius has returned to his native Glasgow (' Cathures ') and that his Celtic name was ' Morgan '.

Buchanan senior, a native of Ayr, Scotland, lived for some years in Manchester, then moved to Glasgow, where Buchanan junior was educated, at the high school and the university, one of his fellow-students being the poet David Gray.

At the festival, they debuted a new track " The Conversation " which marked the first time the track has been played outside their native Glasgow.

A native of Paisley, Lochhead attended Williamwood High School in Clarkston and Central College of Commerce in Glasgow before he graduated in politics from the University of Stirling.

The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System ,< ref >< tt > ghc -- version </ tt ></ ref > more commonly known as the Glasgow Haskell Compiler or GHC, is an open source native code compiler for the functional programming language Haskell.

The Glasgow Haskell Compiler ( GHC ) has a working LLVM backend that achieves a 30 % speed-up of the compiled code when compared to native code compiling via GHC or C code generation followed by compilation, missing only one of the many optimization techniques implemented by the GHC.

Thomson, a professor in Glasgow, might not have known that the translation, originally published as far back as 1789, was the work of Francis Horner MP, an Edinburgh native, who had died only that February.

Efforts to get elected in his native Glasgow being unsuccessful, after he moved to Chichester in 1970 he was first elected to the District Council and later to West Sussex County Council.

Craig was a native of Glasgow.

In addition, McCulloch recorded and produced two unreleased songs by The Khyber Trifles and had occasionally performed live ( in London and their native Glasgow ) with the band.

He trained in Glasgow and France, but unlike Orpen, maintained close ties to his native land.

Cameron was born at Glasgow and received his early education in his native city.

Speakers of Appalachian English have no trouble understanding standard English, but even native speakers of other dialects can find it somewhat impenetrable ( compare the similar situation of Glasgow English and London English ), and foreigners may have some trouble understanding it, while others may find it easier to comprehend.

Duddy had fled to his native Glasgow, but was arrested on 17 August using information obtained from his brother.

Arguably the first recognised professional footballer, Suter was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and played for Partick Thistle and Rangers F. C.

At sixteen he was back in his native village working in a quarry ; some two years later ( 1862 ), he became a surfaceman or platelayer on the Glasgow and South-western railway, and generally wrote under the name of Surfaceman.

The area was settled in May 1870 by John Moffat, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, with his wife and children.

John Willock ( or Willocks or Willox ) ( c. 1515 – December 4, 1585 ), Scottish reformer, was a native of Ayrshire and was educated at the University of Glasgow.

Named after her philanthropist grandmother, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, she is Rupert Murdoch's second daughter and the eldest of three children born of his second marriage in 1967 to former employee Anna Torv, a Roman Catholic native of Glasgow, Scotland.

He studied theology and canon law, and after acting as parish priest in his native diocese for twelve years was sent by the pope to Canada as a bishop's chaplain.

Tetzel was born in Pirna, Saxony, and studied theology and philosophy at the university of his native city.

Van Buren received a basic education at a poorly lit schoolhouse in his native village and later studied Latin briefly at the Kinderhook Academy and at Washington Seminary in Claverack.

A native of Villa Carpena, Forlì ( Emilia-Romagna ), Romano Mussolini studied music as a child playing classical pieces with his father on the violin.

Boas saw language as an inseparable part of culture and he was among the first to require of ethnographers to learn the native language of the culture being studied, and to document verbal culture such as myths and legends in the original language.

* Informant ( linguistics ), a native speaker acting as a linguistic reference for a language being studied

The demographic dynamics of the interaction between feral pigs populations and those of the two native species of peccaries ( Collared Peccary and White-lipped Peccary ) is obscure and is being studied presently.

Unlike most previous explorers, Peary studied Inuit survival techniques, built igloos, and dressed in practical furs in the native fashion both for heat preservation and to dispense with the extra weight of tents and sleeping bags when on the march.

He studied under Plutarch ( the Neoplatonist ) at Athens in the early 5th century, and taught for some years in his native city.

A tiny weevil, Cyrtobagous salviniae, found in the native habitat of S. molesta, is currently being studied as a biocontrol.

In 1906, he was in America to study the music and psychology of the Pawnee people, native Americans in the state of Oklahoma ; he had by that time already studied the native music of Tunisia and of South Sea Islanders.

His language was studied by the scholar Matteo Bartoli, himself a native of nearby Istria, who visited him in 1897 and wrote down approximately two thousand eight hundred words, stories, and accounts of his life, which were published in a book that has provided much information on the vocabulary, phonology, and grammar of the language.

In his native city he studied under his relative, the sophist Chrysanthius, and while still a youth went to Athens, where he became a favourite pupil of Prohaeresius the rhetorician.

Ishi provided valuable information on his native Yana language, which was recorded and studied by the linguist Edward Sapir, who had previously done work on the northern dialects.

Koenig was born in Königsberg ( Province of Prussia ), and studied at the University of Königsberg in his native town.

After having studied medicine in his native town, he moved to Madrid in 1833 and earned a meager living by translating plays of Eugène Scribe and Alexandre Dumas, père.

He graduated at Dickinson College in 1849, studied law for a year, and then became a Methodist minister in his native state.

He studied at the gymnasium and at the university of his native town, took his degree as doctor of philosophy in 1824, and became professor in 1829, a post which he retained till his death.

He studied law in Athens University and continued his studies in Germany, France and England, before returning to his native Patras.

A native of Istanbul, Erener studied history of music in a university in the city before beginning her musical career working with Turkish music icon Sezen Aksu.

Barbe, a Florida native who grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, studied drama at the University of Georgia.

A native of Reggio ( southern Calabria ), Boccioni studied art through the Scuola Libera del Nudo at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, beginning in 1901.

Taglish is used by Filipinos living abroad ( either native speakers of Tagalog or non-native speakers who studied Tagalog in the Philippines or elsewhere ), such as in countries where English is a lingua franca like Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom.