* Alva Erskine Smith

Born in New York City, she was the only daughter and eldest child of William Kissam Vanderbilt, a New York railroad millionaire, and his first wife, a Mobile, Alabama belle and budding suffragist, Alva Erskine Smith ( 1853 – 1933, later Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont ).

He was born in Oakdale, New York, the third child and second son of William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Erskine Smith.

Charles Erskine was the fourth son of Sir Charles Erskine, Baronet, of Alva, by his spouse Christian, daughter of Sir James Dundas of Arniston.

There he met and married Mary Erskine of Alva, for whom he wrote:

Upon its completion, Mr. Vanderbilt gave the house to his wife Alva Erskine Smith as her 39th birthday present.

The 1933 short story The People's Choice by Erskine Caldwell is set in Washington County, where the story's protagonist is a popular local politician elected again and again as the county's tax assesor.

Erskine is a city in Polk County, Minnesota, United States.

The Rydell National Wildlife Refuge is located along County Road 238 approximately west of Erskine and 2½ miles south of U. S. Highway 2.

* Erskine College in Due West, which is in Abbeville County

Although also born in England, his father, Robert Erskine Childers, had had an Irish mother and had been raised by an uncle in County Wicklow, and after the First World War took his family to live there.

Upon his graduation from Erskine, he returned to Wilcox County where he served as principal of the Lower Peach Tree Academy until 1887.

Rita and Erskine Childers ' daughter, Nessa, entered politics in 2004 when she was elected as a councillor on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the Green Party.

Alice " Kiki " Gwynne, later more commonly known as Kiki Preston, was born in 1898, in Hempstead, Nassau County, Long Island, New York, the daughter of Edward Erskine Gwynne, Sr. ( 1869 – 10 May 1904 ) and his wife, the former Helen Steele (?

By August 1809, diplomatic relations with Britain deteriorated as minister David Erskine was withdrawn and replaced by " hatchet man " Francis James Jackson ; Madison however, resisted calls for war.

In Britain, the term " spy novel " was defined by The Riddle of the Sands ( 1903 ) by Robert Erskine Childers.

The son of James II planned to invade England, but before he could do so, John Erskine, Earl of Mar, launched an invasion from Scotland, which was easily defeated.

A man pours some whisky into a flask in this 1869 oil painting by Scottish artist Erskine Nicol. After the English Malt Tax of 1725, most of Scotland ’ s distillation was either shut down or forced underground.

Again this deal was never completed, following the loss of Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford in the Barbadian general elections.

Erskine Burrows was found guilty of this assassination.

As Sir Thomas Erskine May observed, " it was too soon evident, that as more votes had been created, more votes were to be sold.

" Sir Erskine May notes that " reformed Parliament was, unquestionably, more liberal and progressive in its policy than the Parliaments of old ; more vigorous and active ; more susceptible to the influence of public opinion ; and more secure in the confidence of the people ," but admitted that " grave defects still remained to be considered.

" Tracy's close friend Chester Erskine pinpointed his technique as one of " selection "— he strove to give as little as was needed to be effective — reaching " a minimum to make the maximum.

The German part of the Wadden Sea was the setting for the 1903 Erskine Childers novel The Riddle of the Sands.

After an English assault on Leith was repulsed with heavy losses, some of the leaders of the Lords of the Congregation came to Edinburgh Castle on 12 May 1560 and had dinner with Mary and the keeper of the castle, Lord Erskine.

The author Erskine Caldwell was born in Moreland in 1903.

This facility, known as the Erskine Grain Terminal, was developed in 2006 – 2007 by the grain co-ops of Oklee, Newfolden and Winger to allow area growers to assemble trainloads of grain for direct shipment to market in order to meet current freight pricing policies of the railroads.

The ethnicity of Erskine residents was as follows *:

The population of Erskine was more than 800 in the 1920s.

An uninstrumented grass airfield known as the Erskine Airport was in operation from 1954 until the early 1970s, but no longer exists.

Erskine Attachments was used as a pilot for the Minnesota JOBZ incentive program to revitalize Minnesota's manufacturing opportunities and has been referenced for its continuance as a viable success story.

Matteawan was the home town of Erskine Hazard, a civil engineer from the Norfolk and Western Railway who laid out the town in 1890 and drew up the first map of the new community.

Ben was killed during the assassination of Doctor Erskine, the man who would have created Captain America.

It was resolved by Robert giving his daughter Isabella in marriage to Douglas's son, James and with Douglas replacing Erskine as Justiciar south of the Forth.

Grant also advocates that the demonstration was aimed at father and son Robert and Thomas Erskine who held the castles of Edinburgh, Stirling and Dumbarton from Robert's predecessor.

His elder son James Erskine Wemyss ( 1789 – 1854 ) was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy and the grandfather of Admiral of the Fleet Rosslyn Erskine-Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss ( 12 April 1864 – 24 May 1933 ), known as Sir Rosslyn Wemyss between 1916 and 1919.

From the moment when the man tried to escape his tired marriage and odious professional commitments by taking a mistress, took a predictable enough course: the wife soon began to ‘ smell her off him ’; there were painful recriminations when the wife accused the man, hired a private detective, threatened to kill herself, and confronted the mistress in an old rambling house reminiscent of Watt ( and where the servant again is ‘ Erskine ’) … The man renounced the mistress, was forgiven by his wife who ‘ suggested a little jaunt to celebrate, to the Riviera or … Grand Canary ,’ and then, to form, returned to the mistress, this time to elope with her.

After a failed rescue attempt, she was removed by Erskine to the Isle of Skye, where she died.

Narveson was born in Erskine, Minnesota, United States.

He was born to Walter Edward Guinness ( created 1st Baron Moyne in 1932 ), son of the 1st Earl of Iveagh, and Lady Evelyn Stuart Erskine, daughter of the 14th Earl of Buchan.

The title Earl of Kellie or Kelly is one of the peerage titles of in the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1619 for Sir Thomas Erskine, who was Captain of the Guard and Groom of the Stool for James VI.

The subsidiary titles belonging to the Earl of Mar and Kellie are: Viscount of Fentoun or Fenton ( created 1606 ), Lord Erskine ( 1429 ) and Lord Erskine of Dirleton ( 1603 ), the former of which is used as a courtesy title for the eldest son and heir of the Earl.

Lord Rosslyn's earldom had been created with special remainder to his nephew, Erskine.

He was created Duke of Mar, Marquess Erskine or Marquess of Stirling, Earl of Kildrummie, Viscount of Garioch and Lord Alloa, Ferriton and Forrest in the notional Peerage of Scotland in 1715, with the same remainder as his Earldom, i. e. to heirs-general.

They first appeared in Warheads # 1 ( June 1992 ) and were created by John Freeman, Nick Vince, Gary Erskine, and John Beeston.

* 1603: Sir Thomas Erskine ( created Lord Dirletoun 8 June 1604 and Viscount Fentoun 18 March 1606 )

The second Engineer is based on a previous creation of Warren Ellis: " Steel Rain ", a character Ellis created with artist Gary Erskine.

In 2002, Erskine Street in Brooklyn was created and named after him.

When the lyrics were ready to be added, Erskine Hawkins explained the reason for the title to Buddy Feyne who then created lyrics to match the meaning.

In 1995, Blue Lamp Business Parks Ltd. commissioned a landmark sculpture called ' Roll Down ', designed and created by sculptor Robert Erskine FRBS.