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English-educated and
* January 29 John Sassamon, an English-educated Native American Christian, dies at Assawampsett Pond, an event which will trigger a year-long war between English American colonists of New England and Algonquian Native American tribes.

English-educated and government
The mostly English-educated group was a mix of church workers, social workers, graduates and professionals who were arrested and accused of being part of a Marxist conspiracy to topple the PAP-ruled government.

English-educated and from
The PAP was formed in 1954 by predominantly English-educated middle-class professional men who had returned from their university education in the United Kingdom

English-educated and .
Most academics, professionals and other English-educated Malaysians, speak Mesolithic English.
Keshab also publicized Ramakrishna's teachings in the journals of New Dispensation over a period of several years, which was instrumental in bringing Ramakrishna to the attention of a wider audience, especially the Bhadralok ( English-educated classes of Bengal ) and the Europeans residing in India.
His English-educated father felt that the Chinese language was important if one wants to be successful in business at that time, and he sent all his children to Chinese medium schools.
The novel chronicles the efforts of the English-educated Emperor Seth, assisted by a fellow Oxford graduate, Basil Seal, to modernize his Empire, the fictional African island of Azania, located in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa.
And Winslow had actually made matters worse when he prosecuted “ Tobias ”, a senior counselor to Philip, for the murder of an English-educated favorite-an Indian named “ John Sassamon ”, who the Indians may indeed have killed as a spy for the English.
The play centers on Gireesam, an English-educated, resourceful but unscrupulous Vaidiki Brahmin man, and Madhuravani, a prostitute who takes her morals seriously.
Au, English-educated and of Cantonese descent, was born in Singapore in 1952.
Encik Yusof received his primary education in 1923 at Victoria Bridge School, and his secondary education in Raffles Institution ; His father, Ishak bin Ahmad insisted that his children be English-educated.
With growing prosperity, many homosexuals, especially the English-educated middle class were exposed, via travel and the mass media, to the social liberalism of the West and the nascent gay movements there.
He was totally committed to the advancement of his cause … Because of the standards of dedication they set, we, the English-educated PAP leaders, had to set high standards of personal integrity and spartan lifestyles to withstand their political attacks.
Many of these came to work as labourers on rubber plantations, while those who were English-educated occupied more professional positions.
As a result, many English-educated Chinese Singaporeans began to lose their Mandarin or Chinese language skills.
In 1994, the SMC specifically targeted English-educated business professionals and working adults.

Scottish and peer
In December 1805 Lord Aberdeen took his seat as a Tory Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords.
Jardine, who had good relations with Lord Napier, a Scottish peer, and his family, then took the initiative to use the debacle as an opportunity to convince the British government to use force to further open trade.
* September 19 John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, Scottish peer ( b. 1440 )
* January 17 James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish peer ( b. 1724 )
* December 21 John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, Scottish peer and Whig politician ( d. 1847 )
** Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, Scottish peer ( d. 1558 )
* Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore ( 1841 1907 ), Scottish peer and Conservative politician
In 1756, after the deaths of his uncle and father, John became the fourth Earl of Dunmore, and sat as a Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords from 1761 to 1774 and from 1776 to 1790.
* John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis ( 1575 1615 ), Scottish peer
* John Kennedy, 7th Earl of Cassilis ( 1653 1701 ), Scottish peer
* John Kennedy, 8th Earl of Cassilis ( 1700 1759 ), Scottish peer
his father, Thomas Brooke, was an English Judge Court of Appeal at Bareilly, British India ; his mother, Anna Maria, born in Hertfordshire, was the daughter of Scottish peer Colonel William Stuart, 9th Lord Blantyre, and his mistress Harriott Teasdale.
Louisa, the eldest Radlett child, makes her début and quickly becomes engaged to John Fort William, a Scottish peer more than twenty years her senior.
* George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen ( 1722 1801 ), Scottish peer
* George Hamilton-Gordon, 6th Earl of Aberdeen ( 1841 1870 ), Scottish peer and sailor
* George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly ( 1761 1853 ), Scottish peer
* George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon ( 1643 1716 ), Scottish peer
* Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington ( c. 1680 1735 ), Scottish politician ; representative peer ( 1716 1734 ); Knight of the Thistle ( 1717 )
In May 1640 he succeeded his father as Lord Fairfax, but being a Scottish peer he sat in the English House of Commons as one of the representatives of Yorkshire during the Long Parliament from 1640 until his death.
He retired from the House of Commons at the 1997 general election and was made a life peer as Baron Steel of Aikwood, of Ettrick Forest in the Scottish Borders in the same year, residing at Aikwood Tower.
* Alexander Murray, 7th Lord Elibank ( 1747 1820 ), Scottish peer
Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk ( 20 June 1771 — 8 April 1820 ) was a Scottish peer.
* Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat ( 1828 1887 ), Scottish peer
* John Campbell, 5th Earl Cawdor ( 1900 1970 ), Scottish peer

Scottish and Lord
In 1284, Alexander invested the title of Lord of the Isles in the head of the Macdonald family, Angus Macdonald, and over the next two centuries the Macdonald lords operated as if they were kings in their own right, frequently opposing the Scottish monarch.
In this context, he associated with Lord Monboddo and other Scottish Enlightenment luminaries in Edinburgh.
The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.
There were exceptions to this rule however, such as the full-sized elves who appear in Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter as well as Northern English and Scottish Lowlands folklore ( as seen in such tales as The Queen of Elfan's Nourice and other local variants ).
* 1462 Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.
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.
There are seats for each of the 79 councillors, situated in a Hemicycle, all facing the Lord Provost ( the Scottish equivalent of the lord mayor found in London and other cities ), his Depute, and the Chief Executive, who are seated behind the mace.
In Scottish heraldry, the Lord Lyon King of Arms in the Act of 1672 is empowered to grant arms to " vertuous and well deserving persons.
While the Scottish Enlightenment is traditionally considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another 50 years or more, thanks to such figures as the mathematicians and physicists James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and the engineers and inventors James Watt and William Murdoch, whose work was critical to the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution throughout Britain.
Henry Home, Lord Kames ( 169627 December 1782 ) was a Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver.
Lord Cairns, Disraeli's Lord Chancellor, sought to remove the House of Lords jurisdiction for Scottish and Irish appeals as well, which would have completely removed its judicial jurisdiction.
* 1799 James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge ( b. 1714 )
The Militia Act of 1797 empowered Scottish Lord Lieutenants to raise and command militia regiments in each of the " Counties, Stewartries, Cities, and Places " under their jurisdiction.
In 1400, Lord Grey informed Glyndŵr too late of a royal command to levy feudal troops for Scottish border service, thus being able to call the Welshman a traitor in London court circles.
In the Balkans, Romantic views of a connection with classical Greece, which inspired Philhellenism infused the Greek War of Independence ( 1821-1832 ), in which the Scottish Romantic poet Lord Byron was mortally wounded.
Robert Bruce as Earl of Carrick and now 7th Lord of Annandale, held huge estates and property in Scotland and a barony and some minor properties in England and had a strong claim to the Scottish throne.
Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan and wife of John Comyn, 3rd Earl of Buchan ( a cousin of the murdered John Comyn ), who claimed the right of her family, the MacDuff Earl of Fife, to crown the Scottish king for her brother, Donnchadh IV, Earl of Fife who was not yet of age, and in English hands arrived the next day, too late for the coronation, so a second coronation was held and once more the crown was placed on the brow of Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, Lord of Annandale, King of the Scots.
Scottish historian Lord Kinross, in his The Seeds of Decline, sees the massive outlay for the fleet-rebuilding following the Battle of Lepanto as the start of the Empire's slow decay.
Scottish physicist Lord Kelvin was the first to formulate a concise definition of thermodynamics in 1854:
* Henry Home, Lord Kames ( 1696 1782 ) Scottish.

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