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Charles Burnett (1940– ), a Scottish antiquarian, museum curator, and officer of arms at the Court of the Lord Lyon. [51] In 1983 he was appointed Dingwall Pursuivant of Arms, and from 1988–2010 he served as Ross Herald of Arms. [51] In 2011 he became the Ross Herald of Arms Extraordinary which post he holds currently. [51]
Neolassical, Gothic, Renaissance, Italianate, Scottish Baronial, Greek Revival John Burnet (27 September 1814 – 15 January 1901) was a Scottish architect who lived and practised in Glasgow . He was born the son of militia officer and trained initially as a carpenter, before becoming a Clerk of Works .
Burnett was the son of an Aberdeen merchant, who belonged to the Scottish Episcopal Church. He entered business in 1750, his father having failed shortly before, and made a living in stocking-weaving and salmon-fishing. He and his brother paid off their father's debts, amounting to £7,000 or £8,000.
John Burnet (painter) (1781–1868), Scottish engraver and painter; John Burnet (abolitionist) (1789–1862), pastor in Camberwell; John Burnet (architect) (1814–1901), Scottish architect; John James Burnet (1857–1938), architect; John Burnet (classicist) (1863–1928), Scottish classicist who wrote Early Greek Philosophy
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, he won a gold medal in men's singles after defeating Canada's Ryan Bester. [3] In 2018 he was selected as part of the Scottish team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland [1] where he claimed another gold medal in the Triples with Ronnie Duncan and Derek Oliver.
Crimond's issue by his second wife, with three daughters, included Robert (1630–1662), who, admitted to the Scottish bar 1656, died unmarried, Thomas Burnet (1638-1704), physician successively to four English sovereigns, and the noted historian and bishop Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715). [9]
Sir John James Burnet FRSE FRIBA RSA RA (31 May 1857 [1] – 2 July 1938) was a Scottish Edwardian architect who was noted for a number of prominent buildings in Glasgow and London. He was the son of the architect John Burnet , and later went into partnership with his father, joining an architectural firm which would become an influential force ...
Portrait of Gilbert Burnett, Bishop of Salisbury, painted in the style of Pieter Borsseler. Burnet was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1643, the son of Robert Burnet, Lord Crimond, a Royalist and Episcopalian lawyer, who became a judge of the Court of Session, and of his second wife Rachel Johnston, daughter of James Johnston, and sister of Archibald Johnston of Warristoun, a leader of the ...