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Violet Jacob (1 September 1863 – 9 September 1946) was a Scottish writer known especially for her historical novel Flemington and for her poetry, mainly in Scots.She was described by a fellow Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid as "the most considerable of contemporary vernacular poets".
The veteran SNP MSP Fergus Ewing will read from The Wild Geese by Violet Jacob. Conservative MP Sir David Davis, who shared a long friendship with Salmond, will give a Bible reading.
When they married they moved to the property and Augusta set about making several alterations, modernizing the property. The writer and poet Violet Jacob (1863–1946), author of Flemington and Tales of Angus, was a member of the Kennedy-Erskine family and was born in the house. The last Laird of Dun was Millicent Lovett.
Thierry Jacob (1965–2024), French professional boxer; Trevor Jacob (born 1993), American snowboarder accused of deliberately crashing his own plane; Ursula Jacob (born 1985), Irish camogie player; Violet Jacob (1863–1946), Scottish writer; William & Robert (W & R) Jacob, Irish founders of Jacob's biscuit makers
She associated in the pre-war Scottish Renaissance initially with revivalists like Violet Jacob, Alexander Gray and Lewis Spence, [13] and then with MacDiarmid and his cultural efforts in the 1920s and 1930s, through inclusion of her work in Scottish Chapbook and Northern Numbers. She also did radio work at that time. [1]
Heinrich Eduard Jacob (1889–1967, Germany/US, nf) Max Jacob (1876–1944, France, p/f), Holocaust victim; Violet Jacob (1863–1946, Scotland, f/p) Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819, Germany, nf) Johann Georg Jacobi (1740–1814, Germany, p) Anna Jacobs (born 1941, England/Australia, f) Christianne Meneses Jacobs (born 1971, Nicaragua/US ...
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Casualty is a British medical drama television series that has been broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom since 6 September 1986. [1] The series was created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin and focuses on the fictional lives, both professional and personal, of the medical and ancillary staff at the Accident and Emergency Department of the fictional Holby City Hospital, based in the equally ...