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Major-General Sir Alexander Biggam; Captain Henry Peel Ritchie, First World War Victoria Cross recipient; Air Chief Marshal Sir James Robb (RAF officer); Rear Admiral George Pirie Thomson, naval officer and Britain's Chief Press Censor in WWII
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.
The ancestors of Thomas Rosewell came from Bradford-on-Tone, Somerset.Richard Rowswell (d.1543) married Alice Ceelie (Seeley) of North Curry.They had one daughter and four sons: Joanne married Thomas Foreaker of Bradford; John Rowswell married Agnes Dyer of Wincanton, sister of Sir James Dyer; William Rosewell (1499-1568) purchased the manor of High Littleton [1] and lived at Dunkerton; Rev ...
Category: Architects from Edinburgh. 2 languages. ... James Thomson (architect, born 1852) William Erskine Thomson; Ramsay Traquair (architect) W. George Mackie Watson;
The boundaries of the historic county, including the city of Edinburgh, are still used for some limited official purposes connected with land registration, being a registration county. [15] For lieutenancy purposes, the last lord-lieutenant of the county of Midlothian was made lord-lieutenant for the new district of Midlothian when the reforms ...
The following is a list of pilots and other aircrew who flew during the Battle of Britain, and were awarded the Battle of Britain Clasp [1] to the 1939–45 Star by flying at least one authorised operational sortie with an eligible unit of the Royal Air Force or Fleet Air Arm during the period from 0001 hours on 10 July to 2359 hours 31 October 1940.
The parish of Lasswade was divided in two, ecclesiastically, when Roslin parish was erected in 1835. The Church in Rosewell was built 1871–72 and opened for worship 1874, when Rosewell became a separate ecclesiastical parish. It was re-united with Lasswade in 2008. [13] A Parochial Board was established under the Poor Law (Scotland) Act 1845.
Thomas Nelson is a publishing firm that began in West Bow, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1798, as the namesake of its founder. It is a subsidiary of HarperCollins, the publishing unit of News Corp. It describes itself as a "world leading publisher and provider of Christian content". [1]