The nucleus of the estate was a small farm of, called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty ( i. e., muddy ) Hole, and was bought by Scott on the lapse of his lease ( 1811 ) of the neighbouring house of Ashestiel.

In addition to a library, Carnegie also bought the private estate which became Pittencrieff Park and opened it to all members of the public, establishing the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust to benefit the people of Dunfermline.

The neighbouring estate of Birkhall was bought at the same time, and the lease on Abergeldie secured.

The city of Oslo bought the Ekely estate from his heirs in 1946 and demolished his house in May 1960.

While living in Busseto with Strepponi, Verdi bought an estate two miles from the town in 1848.

He was raised to the peerage as Baron Abinger, of Abinger in the County of Surrey and of the City of Norwich, in 1835, taking his title from the Surrey estate he had bought in 1813.

The Antrobus family of Cheshire bought the estate in 1824.

In 1602 Boncompagni's estate gave it to the Collegium Ecclesiasticum Adolescentium Neophytorum ( or Pia Domus Neophytorum, a college for converts from Judaism and Islam ) until 1886, when the Vatican bought it along with other manuscripts when the Collegium closed ( which is the reason for the manuscripts name and its designation ).

He had also bought a country estate, Lanrick Castle, in Perthshire, Scotland.

When Williams bought the £ 8. 5 million mansion in early 2009, Vickers lived at the estate for some months but had recently moved back in with his mother who lives nearby.

Also in 1779 Banks took a lease on an estate called Spring Grove, the former residence of Elisha Biscoe ( 1705 – 1776 ), which he eventually bought outright from Biscoe's son also Elisha in 1808.

Others were less able to bring in sufficient income, hampered by their rural backgrounds and the language barrier ; for those, accommodations were made on an estate bought by Robinson and three partners.

Although he left his heirs an estate worth over one million dollars, and an additional thirty-three thousand dollars to be used to erect a mausoleum for his remains to repose in, his heirs took all of the money and bought him an eighty-five dollar tombstone instead.

The City Center redevelopment project was bought by Shorenstein Co., a San Francisco real estate firm.

In 1773 Lee, who had Whig views, moved to America and bought an estate in Virginia.

Levy's heirs argued over his estate, but their lawsuits were settled in 1879, when Uriah Levy's nephew, Jefferson Monroe Levy, a prominent New York lawyer, real estate and stock speculator and member of Congress, bought out the other heirs for $ 10, 050, and took control of the property.

They were to adopt the values of the dominant society and see land as real estate to be bought and developed ; they were to learn how to use their land effectively in order to become prosperous farmers.

The Heligan estate was originally bought by the Tremaynes in the sixteenth century, and earlier members of the family were responsible for Heligan House and the ( still private ) gardens that immediately surround it.

In April 2000 producer Andrew Mark Sewell announced that he had bought the rights to Blake's 7 from the estate of Terry Nation, and was planning to produce a TV movie set 20 years after the finale of the original series.

On the death of the Duchess of Cleveland in 1901, the historic estate was bought back by Sir Augustus Webster, 7th baronet.

Finally, in July 2000, the Avalanche, Nuggets and Pepsi Center were finally bought by real estate entrepreneur Stan Kroenke in a $ 450 million deal.

In that same year he bought the estate Zuilichem and became known as Lord of Zuilichem.

Finally, in July 2000, the Avalanche, Nuggets and Pepsi Center were bought by real estate entrepreneur Stan Kroenke in a $ 450 million deal.

At the time of his capture Helion had on his person a sketchbook he had bought at Woolworth's in New York.

Providence finally managed to get Gorton out of the town, and he and some friends bought land at Pawtuxet on the west side of Narragansett Bay, five miles south but still within the jurisdiction of the Providence colony.

Therefore, the lumber is bought in planks and ripped to size for battens, etc., on a table saw.

Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

-- I bought 50 shares of Diversified Growth Stock Fund on Oct. 23, 1959, and 50 more shares of the same mutual fund on Feb. 8, 1960.

Chris made trip after trip in our old car, moving the clothes and dishes and the stock of groceries Nadine had bought on special.

Mr. Willis bought Zenith Plastic Products, a skeleton corporation of sorts which had undergone many vicissitudes and whose principal assets were a couple of electronics plants on Long Island engaged in working out government contracts, and installed Freddy in an executive position.

In 1832, at age 23, Lincoln and a partner bought a small general store on credit in New Salem, Illinois.

* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

He bought Corrymore House on the hill above Dooagh in 1924.

One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward, Gaudí, at Güell's suggestion, bought it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906.

The allotment of an individual was based on citizenship rather than merit or any form of personal popularity which could be bought.

After his death, Pablo Picasso, fascinated with Jarry, acquired his pistol and wore it on his nocturnal expeditions in Paris, and later bought many of his manuscripts as well as executing a fine drawing of him.

The company went bankrupt in 1924 and was bought by Lady Charnwood, who put her son John Benson on the board.

An account of small cash sums received over a few days at the fort of Vindolanda circa 110 AD shows that the fort could compute revenues in cash on a daily basis, perhaps from sales of surplus supplies or goods manufactured in the camp, items dispensed to slaves such as cervesa ( beer ) and clavi caligares ( nails for boots ), as well as commodities bought by individual soldiers.

He felt that he could not always rely on the local populace in providing a loyal army ; and therefore bought a massive standing army consisting mainly of Berbers from North Africa as well as slaves from other areas.

Any alcohol ( beer, wine, spirits ) cannot be bought on Sundays before noon.

The body of trustees decided on a converted 17th-century mansion, Montagu House, as a location for the museum, which it bought from the Montagu family for £ 20, 000.

Embittered Bacardi helmsman José Pepín Bosch bought a surplus B-26 bomber with the hopes of bombing Cuban oil refineries ( the bold plan was foiled when a picture of the bomber appeared on the front page of The New York Times ).