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The White House was one of a number of roadhouses developed in Edinburgh in response to the growth of the motor car. [7] It was designed by architect William Innes Thomson of the firm W N Thomson and Co for Jemima Hood Gair. [1] [4] [5] [8] Gair's fifteen year old daughter convinced her to request a Moderne design. [3]
Rosewell is a former mining village in Midlothian, Scotland, east of Roslin and south-west of Bonnyrigg.The village is in the civil parish of Lasswade and was previously a separate ecclesiastical parish, [2] but has its own Community Council, namely Rosewell and District.
Thomson's house (right) at 3 Moray Place, Edinburgh He was born on 29 June 1822 [ 2 ] in Stonehaven in the northeast of Scotland , He was baptised into the Church of Scotland on 26 July 1822. Robert was the eleventh of twelve children of a local woolen mill owner.
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The A68 is a major road in the United Kingdom, running from Darlington in England to the A720 in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.It crosses the Anglo-Scottish border at Carter Bar and is the only road to do so for some distance either way; the next major crossings are the A697 from Coldstream to Cornhill-on-Tweed in the east, and the A7 near Canonbie to the west.
Bonnyrigg is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, which is eight miles (13 kilometres) southeast of Edinburgh city centre, between the Rivers North and South Esk.The town had a population of 14,663 in the 2001 census which rose to 15,677 in the 2011 census, both figures based on the 2010 definition of the locality which, as well as Bonnyrigg and the adjacent settlement of Lasswade, includes Polton ...
Sir Thomas Roddick Hospital built in early 1950s by the American Government on the Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland is named in his honour. McGill University's Roddick Gates were erected by Amy Redpath Roddick and named in his honour. [16] Roddick fountain, in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, is named in his honour.
Born at Waverley Abbey House, near Farnham, Surrey, Thomson was the son of John Buncombe Poulett Thomson, a London merchant, by his wife Charlotte, daughter of John Jacob. His father was the head of J. Thomson, T. Bonar and Company, a successful trading firm that had dealings with Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire , and was a principal merchant ...