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He inherited his father's Baronetcy in 1890 and was created Baron Inverclyde, of Castle Wemyss in the county Renfrew on 28 July 1897. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Burns had acquired Castle Wemyss from Charles Wilsone Brown of Wemyss Bay in 1860, and had the building enlarged and remodelled in Scottish Baronial style by Robert William Billings .
Baron Inverclyde, of Castle Wemyss in the County of Renfrew, [1] was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1897 for the Scottish shipowner Sir John Burns, 2nd Baronet . The Baronetcy had been created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1889 for George Burns. [ 2 ]
The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5] The site attracts more than 30 million unique visitors per month and is among the top 40 trafficked websites in the world. [4]
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2001.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Lord Inverclyde (second from right) with King Peter II of Yugoslavia in 1943 John Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde of Castle Wemyss , KStJ (12 December 1897 – 17 June 1957) was a Scottish nobleman, the son of James, 3rd Lord Inverclyde , and Charlotte Mary Emily (née Nugent-Dunbar).
March 29 – Eric Williams, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1911) March 30. Sherman Edwards, American songwriter (b. 1919) Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1930) Douglas Lowe, British Olympic athlete (b. 1902) DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (b. 1889) March 31. Enid Bagnold, British writer and playwright (b. 1889)
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...