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Who's Who in Scotland includes leading figures in politics, law, the churches, education, business and finance, the civil service and local government, science and medicine, the arts and sport. Entries contain full name, address, date and place of birth, details of family, education, career, publications and recreations.
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Scotland [e] is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles.
Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie (1900–1970), possibly the first woman to practise architecture in Scotland; John Begg (1866–1937), architect who practised in London, South Africa and India, and taught at Edinburgh College of Art; William Bryce Binnie (c. 1885–c. 1963) Alexander Black (c.1790–1858) Hippolyte Blanc (1844–1917)
By the 1860s, the village needed a higher order of administration and it was made a burgh in 1864, under the General Police (Scotland) Act 1862. At the time, it was the fifth largest burgh in Scotland and contained within its boundaries the areas of Plantation, Cessnock, Ibrox, Craigton, and Drumoyne.
William Beardmore – Beardmores, Parkhead Forge, Arrol-Johnston motor company [80]; George Bogle of Daldowie – wealthy tobacco merchant [81]; Sir William Burrell – shipping magnate and philanthropist [82]
The Scottish people or Scots (Scots: Scots fowk; Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland.Historically, they emerged in the early Middle Ages from an amalgamation of two Celtic peoples, the Picts and Gaels, who founded the Kingdom of Scotland (or Alba) in the 9th century.