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Haddington, East Lothian

Index Haddington, East Lothian

The Royal Burgh of Haddington (Haidintoun) is a town in East Lothian, Scotland. [1]

114 relations: A1 road (Great Britain), Aberdeen, Ada de Warenne, Adam Skirving, Alexander II of Scotland, Anglo-Saxons, Arthur Balfour, Association football, Athelstaneford, Aubigny-sur-Nère, Australia, Bernicia, Berwick-upon-Tweed, British Rail, Burgh, Change ringing, Church of Scotland, Clan Bissett, Commonwealth Games, David de Lindsay of the Byres, David I of Scotland, Dual carriageway, Duke of Hamilton, E. W. Pugin, Earl of Huntingdon, Earl of Lauderdale, Earl of Northumbria, East Coast Main Line, East Lothian, East Lothian (Scottish Parliament constituency), East Lothian (UK Parliament constituency), Edgar the Peaceful, Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh Waverley railway station, Edward III of England, Erasmus, Finlay Calder, Fish (singer), Francis Charteris (rake), Freedom of the City, Garleton Castle, Garvald, East Lothian, George Buchanan, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, Gifford, East Lothian, Haddington Athletic F.C., Haddington line, Haddington RFC, Hailes Castle, ..., Henry VIII of England, Herdmanflat Hospital, Hey, Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Waking Yet?, High Middle Ages, Ignatius of Loyola, Inchcolm Abbey, Jacobitism, James VI and I, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Jim Calder (rugby union), John Brown (theologian), John Calvin, John Knox, John Major (philosopher), John, King of England, Lennoxlove House, London, Longniddry, Lothian, Malcolm IV of Scotland, Marillion, Market town, Mary, Queen of Scots, Millennium, National Library of Scotland, North Berwick, Order of Free Gardeners, Padraig, Earl of Atholl, Palladian architecture, Parliament of Scotland, Patrick Hamilton (martyr), Patrick Hepburn, 1st Lord Hailes, Pipe organ, Privy Council of Scotland, Protestant Reformers, Richard Cockburn of Clerkington, Richard Maitland, River Tyne, Scotland, Robert Scot Skirving, Roodlands General Hospital, Rough Wooing, Roxburgh, Royal burgh, Samuel Morison Brown, Samuel Smiles, Scotichronicon, Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Scottish Agricultural Revolution, Scottish Episcopal Church, Scottish Junior Football Association, Siege of Haddington, Talbot Rice Gallery, The Blow Monkeys, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Wright (philanthropist), Tolbooth, University of Edinburgh, Walter Bower, William Adam (architect), William George Gillies, William Maitland of Lethington, William the Lion, Willie Wood (bowler), Yester Castle. Expand index (64 more) »

A1 road (Great Britain)

The A1 is the longest numbered road in the UK, at.

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Aberdeen

Aberdeen (Aiberdeen,; Obar Dheathain; Aberdonia) is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 37th most populous built-up area, with an official population estimate of 196,670 for the city of Aberdeen and for the local authority area.

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Ada de Warenne

Ada de Warenne (or Adeline de Varenne) (1120 – 1178) was a Scottish princess, the Anglo-Norman wife of Henry of Scotland, Earl of Northumbria and Earl of Huntingdon.

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Adam Skirving

Adam Skirving (1719 in Haddington, East LothianApril 1803) was a Scottish song writer known for Hey, Johnnie Cope, are Ye Waking Yet?.

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Alexander II of Scotland

Alexander II (Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim; 24 August 11986 July 1249) was King of Scots from 1214 until his death in 1249.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

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Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, (25 July 184819 March 1930) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Athelstaneford

Athelstaneford /ˈæθəlsteɪnfərd/ (Atholstanefuird or Elshinthurd) is a village in East Lothian, Scotland.

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Aubigny-sur-Nère

Aubigny-sur-Nère is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Bernicia

Bernicia (Old English: Bernice, Bryneich, Beornice; Latin: Bernicia) was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom established by Anglian settlers of the 6th century in what is now southeastern Scotland and North East England.

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Berwick-upon-Tweed

Berwick-upon-Tweed (Sooth Berwick, Bearaig a Deas) is a town in the county of Northumberland.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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Burgh

A burgh was an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland and Northern England, usually a town, or toun in Scots.

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Change ringing

Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a controlled manner to produce variations in their striking sequences.

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Church of Scotland

The Church of Scotland (The Scots Kirk, Eaglais na h-Alba), known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is the national church of Scotland.

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Clan Bissett

This article is about the Scottish clan, for the related Irish clan of the same name see: Mac Eoin Bissett family. Clan Bissett (Bisey, Byset, Bisset or Bissert) is a Scottish clan.

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Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games are an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.

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David de Lindsay of the Byres

David de Lindsay the younger, also called David Lindsay of the Byres (died 1279), was a 13th-century Scottish knight and crusader.

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David I of Scotland

David I or Dauíd mac Maíl Choluim (Modern: Daibhidh I mac Chaluim; – 24 May 1153) was a 12th-century ruler who was Prince of the Cumbrians from 1113 to 1124 and later King of the Scots from 1124 to 1153.

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Dual carriageway

A dual carriageway (British English) or divided highway (American English) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation.

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Duke of Hamilton

Duke of Hamilton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1643.

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E. W. Pugin

Edward Welby Pugin (11 March 1834 – 5 June 1875) was an English architect, the eldest son of architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and Louisa Barton.

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Earl of Huntingdon

Earl of Huntingdon is a title which has been created several times in the Peerage of England.

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Earl of Lauderdale

Earl of Lauderdale is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.

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Earl of Northumbria

Earl of Northumbria was a title in the Anglo-Danish, late Anglo-Saxon, and early Anglo-Norman period in England.

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East Coast Main Line

The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a major railway link between London and Edinburgh via Peterborough, Doncaster, York, Darlington, Durham and Newcastle; it is presently electrified along the whole route.

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East Lothian

East Lothian (Aest Lowden, Lodainn an Ear), is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and a lieutenancy area.

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East Lothian (Scottish Parliament constituency)

East Lothian is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood).

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East Lothian (UK Parliament constituency)

East Lothian is a constituency in Scotland which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

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Edgar the Peaceful

Edgar (Ēadgār; 8 July 975), known as the Peaceful or the Peaceable, was King of England from 959 until his death.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edinburgh College of Art

Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is an art, design, creative and performing arts school in Edinburgh, the oldest and largest in Scotland, providing higher education in art and design, architecture, history of art and music disciplines for over two thousand University of Edinburgh students.

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Edinburgh Waverley railway station

Edinburgh Waverley railway station (also known simply as Waverley) is the principal station serving Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland.

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Edward III of England

Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death; he is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II.

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Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (28 October 1466Gleason, John B. "The Birth Dates of John Colet and Erasmus of Rotterdam: Fresh Documentary Evidence," Renaissance Quarterly, The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Renaissance Society of America, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 1979), pp. 73–76; – 12 July 1536), known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam,Erasmus was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae.

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Finlay Calder

Finlay Calder OBE (born 20 August 1957) is a Scottish former rugby union player.

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Fish (singer)

Derek William Dick (born 25 April 1958), better known by his stage name Fish, is a Scottish singer-songwriter and occasional actor.

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Francis Charteris (rake)

Colonel Francis Charteris (baptised 4 April 1675 – 24 February 1732), nicknamed "The Rape-Master General",Antony E. Simpson (2004).

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Freedom of the City

The Freedom of the City is an honour bestowed by a municipality upon a valued member of the community, or upon a visiting celebrity or dignitary.

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Garleton Castle

Garleton Castle is a courtyard castle, dating from the sixteenth century, about north of Haddington, just north of the Garleton Hills in East Lothian, Scotland.

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Garvald, East Lothian

Garvald (derived from the Scottish Gaelic 'Garbh Allt', meaning a rough burn or stream) is a village south-east of Haddington in East Lothian, Scotland.

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George Buchanan

George Buchanan (Seòras Bochanan; February 1506 – 28 September 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar.

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George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG (6 December 1608 – 3 January 1670) was an English soldier and politician, and a key figure in the Restoration of the monarchy to King Charles II in 1660.

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Gifford, East Lothian

Gifford is a village in the parish of Yester in East Lothian, Scotland.

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Haddington Athletic F.C.

Haddington Athletic Football Club are a Scottish football club based in Haddington, the county town of East Lothian.

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Haddington line

The Haddington line was a branch railway line connecting the Burgh of Haddington to the main line railway network at Longniddry.

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Haddington RFC

Haddington Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team based in Haddington, East Lothian.

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Hailes Castle

Hailes Castle is a mainly 14th century castle about a mile and a half south-west of East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland.

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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.

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Herdmanflat Hospital

Herdmanflat Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Haddington, Scotland.

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Hey, Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Waking Yet?

"Hey, Johnnie Cope, are Ye Wauking Yet?", also "Hey Johnnie Cope, are you awake yet?", "Heigh! Johnnie Cowp, are ye wauken yet?", or simply "Johnny Cope" is a Scottish folk song.

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High Middle Ages

The High Middle Ages, or High Medieval Period, was the period of European history that commenced around 1000 AD and lasted until around 1250 AD.

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Ignatius of Loyola

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (Ignazio Loiolakoa, Ignacio de Loyola; – 31 July 1556) was a Spanish Basque priest and theologian, who founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and became its first Superior General.

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Inchcolm Abbey

Inchcolm Abbey is a medieval abbey located on the island of Inchcolm in the Firth of Forth in Scotland.

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Jacobitism

Jacobitism (Seumasachas, Seacaibíteachas, Séamusachas) was a political movement in Great Britain and Ireland that aimed to restore the Roman Catholic Stuart King James II of England and Ireland (as James VII in Scotland) and his heirs to the thrones of England, Scotland, France and Ireland.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle (14 January 1801 – 21 April 1866, née Jane Baillie Welsh in Haddington Scotland) was the wife of essayist Thomas Carlyle.

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Jim Calder (rugby union)

James Hamilton Calder (born 20 August 1957) is a former international rugby union player.

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John Brown (theologian)

John Brown of Haddington (1722 – 19 June 1787), was a Scottish divine and author.

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John Calvin

John Calvin (Jean Calvin; born Jehan Cauvin; 10 July 150927 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation.

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John Knox

John Knox (– 24 November 1572) was a Scottish minister, theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country's Reformation.

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John Major (philosopher)

John Major (or Mair) (also known in Latin as Joannes Majoris and Haddingtonus Scotus) (1467–1550) was a Scottish philosopher, theologian, and historian who was much admired in his day and was an acknowledged influence on all the great thinkers of the time.

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John, King of England

John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216), also known as John Lackland (Norman French: Johan sanz Terre), was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216.

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Lennoxlove House

Lennoxlove House is a historic house set in woodlands half a mile south of Haddington in East Lothian, Scotland.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Longniddry

Longniddry (Langniddry, Nuadh-Treabh Fada) is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, with a population of 2,613 (2001 census).

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Lothian

Lothian (Lowden; Lodainn) is a region of the Scottish Lowlands, lying between the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills.

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Malcolm IV of Scotland

Malcolm IV (Mediaeval Gaelic: Máel Coluim mac Eanric; Modern Gaelic: Maol Chaluim mac Eanraig), nicknamed Virgo, "the Maiden" (between 23 April and 24 May 11419 December 1165), King of Scots, was the eldest son of Henry, Earl of Huntingdon and Northumbria (died 1152) and Ada de Warenne.

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Marillion

Marillion are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1979.

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Market town

Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the Middle Ages, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city.

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Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I, reigned over Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567.

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Millennium

A millennium (plural millennia or, rarely, millenniums) is a period equal to 1000 years, also called kiloyears.

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National Library of Scotland

The National Library of Scotland (Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba, Naitional Leebrar o Scotland) is the legal deposit library of Scotland and is one of the country's National Collections.

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North Berwick

North Berwick (Bearaig a Tuath) is a seaside town and former royal burgh in East Lothian, Scotland.

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Order of Free Gardeners

The Order of Free Gardeners is a fraternal society that was founded in Scotland in the middle of the 17th century and later spread to England and Ireland.

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Padraig, Earl of Atholl

Padraig or Patrick of Atholl was Mormaer of Atholl, from 1236/7 until 1241.

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Palladian architecture

Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from and inspired by the designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580).

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Parliament of Scotland

The Parliament of Scotland was the legislature of the Kingdom of Scotland.

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Patrick Hamilton (martyr)

Patrick Hamilton (1504 – 29 February 1528) was a Scottish churchman and an early Protestant Reformer in Scotland.

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Patrick Hepburn, 1st Lord Hailes

Sir Patrick Hepburn of Dunsyre, 1st Lord Hailes (died 1483) was the feudal lord of Hailes and its castle in East Lothian and a Lord of Parliament.

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Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called wind) through organ pipes selected via a keyboard.

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Privy Council of Scotland

The Privy Council of Scotland was a body that advised the monarch.

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Protestant Reformers

Protestant Reformers were those theologians whose careers, works and actions brought about the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.

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Richard Cockburn of Clerkington

Sir Richard Cockburn of Clerkington was a senior government official in Scotland during the reign of James VI.

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Richard Maitland

Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington and Thirlstane (1496 – 1 August 1586) was a Senator of the College of Justice, an Ordinary Lord of Session from 1561 until 1584, and notable Scottish poet.

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River Tyne, Scotland

The River Tyne is a river in Scotland.

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Robert Scot Skirving

Robert Scot Skirving (1859-1956) was a Scots-born physician and surgeon who grew to eminence in Australia.

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Roodlands General Hospital

Roodlands General Hospital is a hospital located on Station Road, Haddington, East Lothian.

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Rough Wooing

The Rough Wooing (December 1543 – March 1551) was a war between Scotland and England.

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Roxburgh

Roxburgh, also known as Rosbroch, is a civil parish and now-destroyed royal burgh, in its eponymous historic county of Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders.

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Royal burgh

A royal burgh was a type of Scottish burgh which had been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter.

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Samuel Morison Brown

Samuel Morison Brown (February 23 1817 – 20 September 1856), Scottish chemist, poet and essayist.

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Samuel Smiles

Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 – 16 April 1904), was a Scottish author and government reformer who campaigned on a Chartist platform.

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Scotichronicon

The Scotichronicon is a 15th-century chronicle or legendary account, by the Scottish historian Walter Bower.

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Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Between 1639–53, Scotland was involved in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a series of wars starting with the Bishops Wars (between Scotland and England), the Irish Rebellion of 1641, the English Civil War (and closely related war in Scotland), the Irish Confederate Wars, and finally the subjugation of Ireland and Scotland by the English Roundhead New Model Army.

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Scottish Agricultural Revolution

The Agricultural Revolution in Scotland was a series of changes in agricultural practice that began in the seventeenth century and continued in the nineteenth century.

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Scottish Episcopal Church

The seven dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church (Eaglais Easbaigeach na h-Alba) make up the ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion in Scotland.

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Scottish Junior Football Association

The Scottish Junior Football Association (SJFA) is an affiliated national association of the Scottish Football Association and is the governing body for the junior grade of football in Scotland.

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Siege of Haddington

The Sieges of Haddington were a series of sieges staged at the Royal Burgh of Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, as part of the War of the Rough Wooing one of the last Anglo-Scottish Wars.

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Talbot Rice Gallery

Talbot Rice Gallery is part of the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland.

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The Blow Monkeys

The Blow Monkeys are a British new wave/sophisti-pop band that formed in 1981.

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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, translator, historian, mathematician, and teacher.

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Thomas Wright (philanthropist)

Thomas Wright (1789–1875) was a prison philanthropist.

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Tolbooth

A tolbooth or town house was the main municipal building of a Scottish burgh, from medieval times until the 19th century.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.

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Walter Bower

Abbot Walter Bower (or Bowmaker; 24 December 1449) was a Scottish canon regular of Inchcolm Abbey in the Firth of Forth, who is noted as a chronicler of his era.

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William Adam (architect)

William Adam (1689 – 24 June 1748) was a Scottish architect, mason, and entrepreneur.

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William George Gillies

Sir William George Gillies (1898–1973) was a renowned Scottish landscape and still life painter.

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William Maitland of Lethington

William Maitland of Lethington (1525 – 9 June 1573) was a Scottish politician and reformer, and the eldest son of poet Richard Maitland.

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William the Lion

William the Lion (Mediaeval Gaelic: Uilliam mac Eanric (i.e. William, son of Henry); Modern Gaelic: Uilleam mac Eanraig), sometimes styled William I, also known by the nickname Garbh, "the Rough",Uilleam Garbh; e.g. Annals of Ulster, s.a. 1214.6; Annals of Loch Cé, s.a. 1213.10.

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Willie Wood (bowler)

William "Willie" Wood MBE, (born 26 April 1938 in Haddington, East Lothian) is a Scottish professional bowls player, who has mainly competed in the outdoor or lawn form of the game.

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Yester Castle

Yester Castle is a ruined castle, located south east of the village of Gifford in East Lothian, Scotland.

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Haddington, Haddingtonshire, Haddington, Scotland, St Martin's Kirk, Haddington.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haddington,_East_Lothian

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