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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
Alexander Burnett, 12th Laird of Leys (died 5 July 1619) was a Scottish landowner.. Burnett was the Laird of Crathes Castle in the late 16th and early 17th century, and is credited for the completion of Crathes in 1596.
Sir Thomas Burnett, 1st Baronet of Leys (died 27 June 1653) was a feudal baron and leading Covenanter who had represented Kincardineshire in the Scottish Parliament in 1621. Early years [ edit ]
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]
Thomas Stuart Burnett ARSA (4 July 1853 – 8 March 1888) was a Scottish sculptor in the 19th century. His two principal claims to fame is as one of the chosen sculptors of the figures depicting characters from the novels of Sir Walter Scott on the Scott Monument on Princes Street in Edinburgh and for the famous sculpture of Robinson Crusoe at ...