Lord Sempill ( also variously rendered as Semple or Semphill ) is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.

There is a long history of drainage schemes and farming operations in the Lochwinnoch area, with co-ordinated attempts dating from about 1691 by Lord Sempill, followed by Colonel McDowal of Castle Sempil in 1774, James Adams of Burnfoot, and by others.

* Hugh Sempill ( 1596-1654 ), Scottish mathematician, after whom Simpelius crater is named

The land to the South of Fairlie Burn, held by the Sempill family, was never held by the Fairlie family and is actually in the Parish of West Kilbride.

There is a long history of drainage schemes and farming operations in the Lochwinnoch area, with co-ordinated attempts dating from about 1691 by Lord Sempill, followed by Colonel McDowal of Castle Sempil in 1774, James Adams of Burnfoot, and by others.

It was built in 1504 by John, Lord Sempill, in the grounds of the original ( 13th century ) Castle Semple, and is now in the care of Historic Scotland.

On the nineteenth Lord's death in 1965 the baronetcy and barony were separated ; the lordship passed to his daughter Ann, the twentieth Lady Sempill, while his new younger brother, Ewan, succeeded in the baronetcy, which could only be inherited by male heirs, after a two-year legal dispute to determine if he was a legitimate male successor.

The Blythsome Wedding, long attributed to Francis Sempill, has been more recently asserted to be the work of Sir William Scott of Thirlestane.

His son, Francis Sempill, was also a writer.

The military in Japan were also aided in their quest to build up their naval forces by Sempill who had become a Japanese spy.

See the works mentioned below in the article on the elder Robert Sempill, and The Poems of the Sempills of Beltrees, ed.

* Robert Sempill the younger-The Life and Death of Habbie Simpson, Piper of Kilbarchan

** James Sempill, Scottish theologian ( d. 1626 )

** Robert Sempill the younger, Scottish writer ( d. 1663 )

** Robert Sempill, Scottish ballad-writer ( b. 1530 )

Sempill Mission | Captain Sempill showing a Sparrowhawk to Admiral of the Fleet ( Japan ) | Marshal-General of the Navy Heihachirō Tōgō, 1921.

* March-Francis Sempill, poet and wit ( born c. 1616 )

From the 17th century they were used as a literary form by aristocratic authors including Robert Sempill ( c. 1595-c. 1665 ), Lady Elizabeth Wardlaw ( 1627 – 1727 ) and Lady Grizel Baillie ( 1645 – 1746 ).

An accident at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair damaged the first prototype badly, killing the driver, and seriously injuring the two passengers ; one of whom was William Sempill, aviation pioneer and Japanese spy.

Hamilton Collins Sempill was the first settler in the New England area when he took up the ' Wolka ' run in 1832, establishing slab huts where ' Langford ' now stands close to Walcha.

It was created in circa 1489 for Sir John Sempill, founder of the collegiate Church of Lochwinnoch.

Sempill was killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.

In 1688 she obtained a new charter settling the lordship of Sempill in default of male issue, upon her daughters without division by her then and any future husband.

In 1853 they were both allowed by Royal license to assume the name and arms of Sempill only.

Sarah Sempill, eldest daughter of the thirteenth Lord Sempill.

In 1885 he assumed by Royal license the additional and principal surname of Sempill.

) The twentieth Lady Sempill was the wife of, firstly, Eric Holt.

They were later divorced and she then married secondly Stuart Whitemore Chant, who in 1966 by decree of the Lord Lyon assumed the additional surname of Sempill.

* John Sempill, 1st Lord Sempill ( d. 1513 )

* William Sempill, 2nd Lord Sempill ( d. 1552 )

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Next I refer to our program in space exploration, which is often mistakenly supposed to be an integral part of defense research and development.

Hammarskjold's supposed desire to seek outside legal advice in the guise of Ernest Gross is illusion, at best.

Mercer is supposed to have refused it with, `` Anyone who wears a square monacle must be affected ''!!

Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.

Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.

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But DeKalb citizens, those who use the facilities of the cannery, say the cannery is not supposed to make any money.

Sir Robert Watson-Watt's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.

It is discouraging for students to realize that the societies do not truly uphold the standards for which they are supposed to stand.

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The moments of sung melody, in the usual sense, come most often when the character is actually supposed to be singing, as in folk songs and liturgical chants.

The savings are not as great, however, as is sometime supposed.

One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.

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`` Several times I found the players pepping me up, where it usually is the coach who is supposed to deliver the fight talk.

The statement is often made that when Bultmann argues in this way, he `` overestimates the intellectual stumbling-block which myth is supposed to put in the way of accepting the Christian faith ''.

the difference between Mr. Parker and the Association is a difference between no Christianity and Christianity '' -- despite these supposed conclusive assurances, the modern liberal heaves repeatedly a sigh of relief, of positive thanksgiving, that the Association never quite brought itself officially to expel Parker.

But the `` marvelous person '' that is supposed to result from Zen exhibits more Chinese practicality than Indian speculation -- he possesses magical powers, and can use them to order nature and to redeem souls.

One patriarch is supposed to have relegated sacred scriptures for use in an outhouse.

It is really as though the Russians have seen in this character the oftentimes underlying vitality and courage of supposed buffoons.

Although he is not graced with the subtleties of romantic technique, that's not what an ex-prize fighter is supposed to have, anyway.