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People From Crieff: Ewan Mcgregor, Sir James Henderson-Stewart, 1st Baronet, Denis Lawson, David Jack, Gavin Strang, Thomas Thomson |
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English |
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52 |
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2010-05-07 |
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1155845722 |
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Books LLC |
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0.2 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.12 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ewan Mcgregor, Sir James Henderson-Stewart, 1st Baronet, Denis Lawson, David Jack, Gavin Strang, Thomas Thomson, William Wright, Alexander Murray, Jackie Dewar, Sophie Stewart. Excerpt: Alexander Murray Alexander Murray , CMG (2 June 1810 18 December 1884) was a Scottish geologist . Murray was born in Crieff , Perthshire , Scotland. He worked as a geologist in the United Kingdom and Canada , before coming to Newfoundland in 1864 to become the first director of the Geological Survey of Newfoundland . His first major task was to produce a reliable topographical map of the interior of the island. Murray did detailed work in the area between Hall's Bay and St. George's Bay , as well as the area surrounding Conception , Placentia and St. Mary's Bays. He also mapped parts of the Great Northern Peninsula and central Newfoundland. Murray produced the first geological map of Newfoundland and his reports of rich resources in the island's interior were an important factor in the decision to build the trans-island railway in 1881. Poor health caused him to return to Scotland in 1883. Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at David Jack David Jack (18 April 1822 11 January 1909), also known as David Jacks , was a powerful Californian landowner, developer, and businessman. Born in Scotland , he emigrated to California during the 1849 Gold Rush, and soon acquired several thousand acres in and around Monterey , shaping the history of Monterey County in the first decades of American possession. He is also credited as being the first to market and popularize Monterey Jack cheese . Early life David Jack was born at Crieff , Perthshire , Scotland , the sixth of nine children of William Jack and the first of three William had by his second wife Janet McEwan. Little is known...
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