However, the Cabal Ministry they formed can hardly be seen as such ; the Scot Lauderdale was not much involved in English governance at all, while the Catholic ministers of the Cabal ( Clifford and Arlington ) were never much in sympathy with the Protestants ( Buckingham and Ashley ).

In despair, he wrote to William Paterson the London Scot and founder of the Bank of England and part instigator of the Darien scheme, who was in the confidence of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, leading minister and spymaster in the English Government.

This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.

This Christian savant was identified by Senior Sachs as Michael Scot, who, like Anatoli, devoted himself to scientific work at the court of Frederick.

Based on Postgate's wartime encounter with Welshman Denzyl Ellis, who used to be the fireman on the Royal Scot, it was remade in colour for the BBC in the 1970s.

At Charing Cross, he was taught by the Scot, Thomas Wharton Jones, Professor of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery at University College London.

John Knox, a Lowland Scot, was born sometime between 1505 and 1515 in or near Haddington, the county town of East Lothian.

Knox recounted an incident in which one Scot was required to show devotion to a picture of the Virgin Mary.

( In comparison fellow Scot and contemporary explorer David Livingstone was knighted and buried with full imperial honors in Westminster Abbey ).

It was a Scot, John Muir, who had initiated one of the first national parks in the world, at Yosemite in the United States.

As this kingdom expanded in size and influence, the name was applied to all its subjects – hence the modern terms Scot, Scottish and Scotland.

For the remainder of the 17th century, its place in the repertoire was taken by John Lacy's Sauny the Scot.

Originally performed under the title The Taming of a Shrew, it was published in 1698 as Sauny the Scot: or, The Taming of the Shrew: A Comedy.

Another ballad opera version followed with James Worsdale's A Cure for a Scold which was performed at Drury Lane in 1735 and subsequently in Dublin, and was itself an adaptation of Lacy's Sauny the Scot.

The first practical pneumatic tire was made by John Boyd Dunlop while working as a veterinarian in May Street, Belfast, Ireland in 1887 for his son's bicycle, in an effort to prevent the headaches his son had while riding on rough roads ( Dunlop's patent was later declared invalid because of prior art by fellow Scot Robert William Thomson ).

British sprinters had made little impression on the international scene, and the sight of the Scot winning two gold medals ( 200 m, 4 x 100 m ) and a silver ( 100 m ) at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, was a surprise for British athletics fans.

Of the 122 soldiers of the 24th Regiment present at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, 49 are known to have been of English nationality, 32 were Welsh, 16 were Irish, 1 was a Scot, and 3 were born overseas.

The mountain was named by John Burns, a Scot who settled on the west side of the ridge in 1851.

Lindsay's resident have been in an uproar since they learned their City Manager Scot Townsend was being paid $ 214, 405 annually reported the Los Angeles Times.

Originally named Pewonagowink Township when organized in 1848, but was later changed at the request of John Farquharson, a Scot, renamed the township to Montrose to impress his Scottish friends.

The MacRae family who lived at the ' ford of the creek ' was at one time made up primarily of old Highland Scot families.

It was originally intended to demolish the stadium at the end of the Exhibition, but it was saved at the suggestion of Sir James Stevenson, a Scot who was chairman of the organising committee for the Empire Exhibition.

The letter opens with all apology that a " foolish Scot " should be charged to write for a Lombard king.

* 2008 – Scot Halpin, American musician, temporary drummer for The Who ( b. 1954 )

It is rather as a translator that Anatoli deserves a distinguished place in the scientific realm ; for it is he and Michael Scot who together, under the influence of Frederick II, opened to the western world the treasure-house of Arabic learning.

Graetz also suggests the possibility that Anatoli, in conjunction with Michael Scot, may have translated Maimonides ' Guide for the Perplexed into Latin ; but this suggestion has not yet been sufficiently proved ( compare Steinschneider, " Hebr.

The Scot consistently defended Luis Suárez in the wake of the striker's eight-match ban for allegedly racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra when the teams met in October 2011.

A local drummer in the audience, Scot Halpin, came up and played the drums for the rest of the show.

Old Irish documents use the term Scot ( plural Scuit ) going back as far as the 9th century, for example in the glossary of Cormac úa Cuilennáin.

* Scot: an old English word for a form of taxation

John the Scot, or Johannes Scotus Eriugena ( c. 815 – 877 ) held many surprisingly heretical beliefs for the time he lived in for which no action appears ever to have been taken against him.

A Welshman Owain Lawgoch ( Owain of the Red Hand ) formed a free company and fought for the French against the English during the Hundred Years ' War, before being assassinated by a Scot by the name of Jon Lamb under the orders of the English Crown in 1378 during the siege of Mortagne.

Prompted by the Scot, Charles Wyville Thomson — of the University of Edinburgh and Merchiston Castle School — the Royal Society of London obtained the use of Challenger from the Royal Navy and in 1872 modified the ship for scientific work, equipping her with separate laboratories for natural history and chemistry.

The nineteenth century also saw the Scot, James Clerk Maxwell, win renown for his four equations of electromagnetism, and his countryman, Lord Kelvin make substantial discoveries in thermodynamics.

Attempts were made to minimise end-to-end journey times for a small number of powerful lightweight trains that could be marketed as glamorous premium crack expresses, especially between London and Glasgow, such as the 1937-39 Coronation Scot, hauled by streamlined Princess Coronation Class locomotives, which made the journey in 6 hours 30 minutes, making it competitive with the rival East Coast Flying Scotsman.

The plains are named after Abraham Martin ( 1589-1664 ), a fisherman and river pilot called The Scot, who owned a plot of land near the site of the present park which he used for grazing his livestock.

* Speedy Scot won the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Triple Crown races –

* James Worsdale-A Cure for a Scold ( a farcical ballad opera adaptation of John Lacy's Sauny the Scot, itself an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew )

Out of these ideas and activities came a new generation of activists including, perhaps most notably Keir Hardie, a Scot who had become convinced of the need for independent labour politics whilst working as a Gladstonian Liberal and trade union organiser in the Lanarkshire coalfield.

She co-presented the show for 5 years with fellow Scot Nicky Campbell.

Also influenced by Carl Barks in the late Fifties and up to about 1963 he wrote and penciled stories like Topolino e la collana Chirikawa ( 1960 ) or The Flying Scot ( 1957 ) that have, later, been translated in many different languages throughout the world.

A number of people opposed this, including many of the Highland clans and John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, a lowland Scot and Episcopalian.

Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers and Ludwig Ideler indicate ( according to Richard Hinkley Allen's allegations ) that the constellation may be older, quoting an astrological work from 1564 that mentioned " the second horse between the Twins and the Crab has many stars, but not very bright "; these references may ultimately be due to Michael Scot of the 13th century, but refer to a horse and not a unicorn, and its position does not quite match.

Thus many common "- ish " forms have irregular demonyms, e. g. Britain / British / Briton ; Denmark / Danish / Dane ; England / English / Englishman ; Finland / Finnish / Finn ; Flanders / Flemish / Fleming ; Ireland / Irish / Irishman ; Kurdistan / Kurdish / Kurd ; Poland / Polish / Pole ; Scotland / Scottish / Scot ; Spain / Spanish / Spaniard ; Sweden / Swedish / Swede ; Turkey / Turkish / Turk.

BMX Racing has had many sanctioning bodies over its 40-year history as an organized sport, the first being Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society ( BUMS ), created in the early 1970s ( see below ).

" Every astrologer is worthy of praise and honour ," Scot wrote, " Since by such a doctrine as astrology he probably knows many secrets of God, and things which few know.

Whatever residual fears many in England may have felt at the prospect of being ruled by a Scot, James's arrival aroused a mood of high expectation.

The most famous of the many legends that surround the stones is that they were once a coven of witches who were turned to stone by a wizard from Scotland named Michael Scot.

Cormack left Newfoundland and returned to Great Britain where he stayed for some time in Liverpool with John McGregor, a Scot whom he had known in Canada, sharing many of his materials on the Beothuks.

British Orientalism, though not as common as in France at the same period, had many specialists, including John Frederick Lewis, who lived for nine years in Cairo, David Roberts, a Scot who made lithographs of his travels in the Middle East and Italy, the nonsense writer Edward Lear, a continual traveller who reached as far as Ceylon, and Richard Dadd.

Scot settlers founded many of the city's great industries including the Bank of Montreal, Redpath Sugar, and from headquarters they established in Montreal, Scots were the driving force that built both of Canada's national railroads.

The 1996 – 97 team was said by many to be one of the greatest teams in history, featuring future NBA players such as Paul Pierce, Jacque Vaughn, Raef LaFrentz, and Scot Pollard.

Scot ’ s beliefs about government by consent prior to Pride's Purge are hard to gauge, though from what has survived of his writings and speeches many historians have described him as being republican.

Mr. Scot said in his defence, that whatever had been spoken in the House ought not to be given in evidence against him, not falling under the cognizance of any inferior court, as all men knew: that for what he had done in relation to the King, he had the authority of the Parliament for his justification: that the Court had no right to declare whether that authority were a Parliament or not ; and being demanded to produce one instance to show that the House of Commons was ever possessed of such an authority, he assured them he could produce many.

' These, with many other things of equal force being said by Mr. Scot in his defense, rather to justify himself to his country, than from any hopes of consideration from those with whom he had to do ; the jury as directed, found him guilty also.

Annette Crosbie, known to many as the long suffering wife of Victor Meldrew, played by fellow Scot Richard Wilson in the BBC comedy series One Foot in the Grave, is a former resident of Gorebridge.