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Nairne's first marine barometer was sent on James Cook's second voyage to the South Pacific. One of the earliest references to rubber in Europe appears to be in 1770, when Edward Nairne was selling cubes of natural rubber at his shop at 20 Cornhill. The cubes, meant to be erasers, sold for the astonishingly high price of 3 shillings per half ...
John Nairne. Lieutenant-Colonel John Nairne (1 March 1731 – 14 July 1802) was a Scottish-Canadian soldier and seigneur. Nairne came to Canada in 1758 as a lieutenant, and participated in the captures of Louisbourg and Quebec City.
Sir John Gordon Nairne, 1st Baronet (4 January 1861 – 9 February 1945) was a director of the Bank of England and a BBC governor. He was born in Castle Douglas , Kirkcudbrightshire , Scotland . He was the son of Andrew Nairne and Isabella H. Macartney and married Narciza da Costa Ricci, the daughter of Baron Anselmo da Costa Ricci, at St Mark ...
An eraser (also known as a rubber in some Commonwealth countries, including South Africa [1] [2] [3] from which the material first used got its name) is an article of stationery that is used for removing marks from paper or skin (e.g. parchment or vellum). Erasers have a rubbery consistency and come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors.
The contract states that Thomas Blunt was a resident of Tooting, Surrey. He may have operated a business in that town during the seven years between the end of his apprenticeship and the beginning of his partnership with Nairne. Thomas and Mary married on 6 January 1774 at Tooting Parish Church. Edward Nairne signed the parish record as a witness.
Petty-Fitzmaurice was the only son of Lord Charles Mercer Nairne, the second son of Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne.His father was killed in action in 1914 while on active service in the First World War, and his mother, the former Lady Violet Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, later married secondly John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever.
Leander, HMS Driver under Slingsby Simpson, and HMS Cambrian, under John Nairne, were repeatedly stationed off Sandy Hook, ostensibly to keep watch on two French frigates that had taken refuge in the harbour. However, in the summer of 1804, the warships began stopping and boarding all American ships going into New York just outside the United ...
The 109th Regiment (Battalion of London Volunteers) was raised in the counties of Hertfordshire and Middlesex, England with Major Commandant John Nairne as Commanding Officer Establishment from December 1761 was 280 men in four companies. [1]