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BIGGAR , a See also:police See also:burgh of See also:Lanarkshire, See also:Scotland. Pop. (1901) 1366. It is situated about to m. S.E. of Carstairs Junction (Caledonian railway), where the lines from See also:Edinburgh and See also:Glasgow connect. Lying on Biggar See also:Water and near the See also:Clyde, in a bracing, picturesque, upland See also:country, Biggar enjoys See also:great See also:vogue as a See also:health and See also:holiday resort. It was the See also:birth-See also:place of Dr See also:John See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown, author of See also:Rab and his See also:Friends, whose See also:father was See also:secession See also:minister in the See also:town. It was created a burgh of See also:barony in 1451 and a police burgh in 1863. St See also:Mary's See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church ,vas founded in 1545 by See also:Lord See also:Fleming, the See also:head of the ruling See also:family in the See also:district, whose seat, Boghall See also:Castle, however, is now a ruin. John Gledstanes, great-grandfather of W. E. See also:Gladstone, was a See also:burgess of Biggar, and lies in the See also:churchyard.
See also:Easter Gledstanes, the seat of the family from the 13th to the 17th See also:century, and the See also:estate of Arthurshiels, occupied by them for nearly a See also:hundred years more, are situated about 31 M. to the See also:north-See also:west of the burgh. On the See also:top of Quothquan See also:Law (1097 ft.), about 3 M. west is a See also:rock called See also:Wallace's See also:Chair, from the tradition that he held a See also:council there See also:prior to the See also:battle of Biggar in 1297. Lamington, nearly 6 m. See also:south-west, is well situated on the Clyde. It is principally associated with the family of the Baillies, of whom the most notable were See also:Cuthbert See also:Baillie (d. 1514), lord high treasurer of Scotland, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Baillie, Lord Provand (d. 1593), the See also:judge, and William Baillie (fl. 1648), the See also:general whose See also:strategy in opposition to the See also:marquess of Mont-See also:rose was so diligently stultified by the See also:committee of estates. The See also:ancient church of St See also:Ninian's has a See also:fine See also:Norman See also:doorway. Lamington See also:Tower was reduced to its See also:present fragmentary See also:condition in the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:Edward I., when William Heselrig, the See also:sheriff, laid See also:siege to it. The defenders, See also:Hugh de Bradfute and his son, were slain, and his daughter Marion—the betrothed, or, as some say, the wife of William Wallace—was conveyed to See also:Lanark, where she was barbarously executed because she refused to re-veal the whereabouts of her See also:lover. Wallace exacted See also:swift vengeance. He burnt out the See also:English See also:garrison and killed the sheriff.
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In reference to your article - the Baillie family name used to be spelled Baliol, John Baliol, King of Scotland, who fought a similar battle like that of William Wallace (Braveheart)a few years prior to William Wallace
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