Aberdeen is a city in Scotland, United Kingdom.

Aberdeen, Scotland, is home of:

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

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.

At the age of 10 he was taken by his mother to hear a talk given by John Thomas in Aberdeen, Scotland.

On 30 November 1682 he was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord Haddo, Methlic, Tarves and Kellie, Viscount of Formartine and Earl of Aberdeen.

George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen ( 6 October 1637 – 20 April 1720 ), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, ( executed in 1644 ); by his wife, Mary Forbes.

In 1682 he was made Lord Chancellor of Scotland, and was created, on 13 November, Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Formartine, and Lord Haddo, Methlick, Tarves and Kellie, in the Scottish peerage, being appointed also Sheriff Principal of Aberdeenshire and Midlothian.

Aberdeen in Scotland, which is constructed principally from local granite, is known as " The Granite City ".

Scotland advanced markedly in educational terms during the fifteenth century with the founding of the University of St Andrews in 1413, the University of Glasgow in 1450 and the University of Aberdeen in 1495, and with the passing of the Education Act 1496, which decreed that all sons of barons and freeholders of substance should attend grammar schools.

By the 18th century there were five universities in Scotland, at Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews and King's and Marischial Colleges in Aberdeen, compared with only two in England.

Shetland is also served by a domestic connection from Lerwick to Aberdeen on mainland Scotland.

There are frequent charter flights from Aberdeen to Scatsta near Sullom Voe, which are used to transport oilfield workers and this small terminal has the fifth largest number of international passengers in Scotland.

* February – King's College, Aberdeen, predecessor of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, is founded on the petition of William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen.

* Aberdeen, Scotland since 1955

| PLACE OF BIRTH = Aberdeen, Scotland

* Alistair Urquhart, former Gordon Highlander, born in Aberdeen, Scotland.

In Scotland, the position of Rector exists in the four Ancient Universities-( St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh ) ( in order of foundation ) and at Dundee, which is considered to have Ancient status as a result of its early connections to St. Andrews University.

The current Rector of the University of Aberdeen is Maitland Mackie, owner and chairman of Mackie's of Scotland.

On his nineteenth birthday in 1855 Hercules Linton was apprenticed to Alexander Hall and Sons who at the time, were the leading shipbuilders in Aberdeen and whose schooner Scottish Maid ( 1839 ) with its sharp bow and entry helped coin the term Aberdeen Bow.

Alexander Anderson ( c. 1592, Aberdeen – c. 1620, Paris ) was a Scottish mathematician.

* David George Ian Alexander Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( 1908 – 1974 )

* Alexander George Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( b. 1955 )

A key breakthrough was the invention of steam-powered cutting and dressing tools by Alexander MacDonald of Aberdeen, inspired by seeing ancient Egyptian granite carvings.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

S. aureus was first identified in Aberdeen, Scotland ( 1880 ) by the surgeon Sir Alexander Ogston in pus from surgical abscesses.

Alexander Bain was born in Aberdeen, Scotland to George Bain, a weaver and veteran soldier, and Margaret Paul.

* Alexander Bain is appointed to the chair of logic and English literature at the University of Aberdeen.

The first university in Aberdeen, King's College, was founded in February 1495 by William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen, Chancellor of Scotland, and a graduate of the University of Glasgow drafting a request on behalf of King James IV to Pope Alexander VI resulting in a Papal Bull being issued.

The building is widely considered to be one of the best examples of neo-Gothic architecture in Great Britain ; the architect, Alexander Marshall Mackenzie was a native of Aberdeen.

In the same year he returned to Aberdeen and helped Alexander Bain with the revision of some of his books.

Several have tried to restore the text to discover Apollonius's solution, among them Snellius ( Willebrord Snell, Leiden, 1698 ); Alexander Anderson of Aberdeen, in the supplement to his Apollonius Redivivus ( Paris, 1612 ); and Robert Simson in his Opera quaedam reliqua ( Glasgow, 1776 ), by far the best attempt.

In 1500, he was induced to leave Paris for Aberdeen by a generously financed offer to become the first principal of the newly established University of Aberdeen, created at the behest of James IV by William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen under the authority of a Papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI.

* Alexander Gardyne, Theatre of Scottish Worthies and Lyf of W. Elphinston, edited by David Laing ( Aberdeen, 1878 ).

He was assistant professor under Alexander Bain at Aberdeen for some years ; from 1874 to 1878 he edited the Examiner, and in 1880 he was made full professor of logic and English at Aberdeen.

Amongst in receipt of the king's orders were Henry Cheyne, Bishop of Aberdeen, Sir Gartnait of Mar, heir to the earldom of Mar and whose father was currently held in the Tower of London, and John Comyn, Earl of Buchan and Constable of Scotland, together with his brother, Alexander.

Other notable Scottish architects of this period are Archibald Simpson and Alexander Marshall Mackenzie whose stylistically varied work can be seen in the architecture of Aberdeen.

Also, the United States Army Communications and Electronics Life Cycle Management Command ( CECOM-LCMC ) Headquarters at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland is named Armstrong Hall in his honor.

* Richard Slutzky, " Coach Slutzky ", honoree of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, long-time Aberdeen High School coach.

* Steven M. Wise, animal rights lawyer and scholar, inducted into Aberdeen High School Hall of Fame.

Notable athletes to come out of Fairport include Tim Soudan in lacrosse ( UMass, Rochester Knighthawks ), Shawn Johnson in football ( Duke University, Tennessee Titans ), Steve Soja ( Coastal Carolina University, River City Rascals, Mid-Missouri Mavericks, Gateway Grizzlies and Yuma Scorpions ) and Ryan Szwejbka in baseball ( University of South Carolina, Aberdeen Pheasants ), Dave Cerny in lacrosse ( SUNY Albany Hall of Fame ), Dan Predmore in track and field ( Cornell University Hall of Fame ), Chris Collins in hockey ( Boston College Providence Bruins ), professional tennis player Marcus Fugate, Dhruv Tyagi in diving ( Stanford University ), Ryan Kavanaugh in Rowing ( Columbia University )

Between his last two sessions at Aberdeen, Hall acted as assistant pastor to Dr Evans at Broadmead chapel, Bristol, and three months after leaving the university he was appointed classical tutor in the Bristol academy, an office which he held for more than five years.

The tour itself started on 6 January at the Music Hall Aberdeen in the UK, with the band finishing the tour in The Olympia, Dublin on 17 February 2011, having cancelled the O2 show.

He went in 1780 to King's College, University of Aberdeen, where he made a lifelong friend of Robert Hall, later a famous preacher.

" Echoing these earlier comments, the Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair said upon her departure from Ottawa that Rideau Hall was a " shabby old Government House put away amongst its clump of bushes ..."

He sent him to Grammar School briefly in Aberdeen, and in 1588, the year the Spanish Armada was defeated, at the age of ten ( or 14 ) Thomas left home to enter Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, an Anglican institution.

After graduating from King's College, Aberdeen MA with honours, he went to Magdalen Hall, Oxford.

At the University of Aberdeen, the main hall in the King's College Conference Centre is named the James Mackay Hall, in honour of him.

* Music Hall Aberdeen, Scotland, by Archibald Simpson.

He was a benefactor of the University of Aberdeen after whom the Mitchell Tower ( 1895 ) and Mitchell Hall are named.

These links led to his being responsible for commissioning one of the first warships in the Imperial Japanese Navy ( the Jo Sho Maru, later called Ryūjō Maru ) which was built by Alexander Hall and Company in Aberdeen and launched on 27 March 1869.

On April 22, 2009, baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. formed an alliance under which the performance apparel, footwear, and equipment company would have significant presence at several venues and events under the auspices of Ripken Baseball, including providing uniforms for the minor league Aberdeen IronBirds and youth teams participating in the Cal Ripken World Series this summer.

The RSNO also performs throughout Scotland, at such venues as the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Usher Hall ( Edinburgh ), Caird Hall ( Dundee ), Aberdeen Music Hall, Perth Concert Hall and Eden Court Inverness.

He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and graduated MA at the University of Aberdeen in 1870, and studied for the ministry at the Free Church Divinity Hall there until 1874, when he was ordained minister of the Free Church at Dufftown, Banffshire.