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COATBRIDGE , a municipal and See also:police See also:burgh, having the privileges of a royal burgh, of See also:Lanarkshire, See also:Scotland. Pop. (1891) 15,212; (1901) 36,991. It is situated on the Monkland See also:Canal, 8 m. E. of See also:Glasgow, with stations on the Caledonian and See also:North See also:British See also:railways. Until about 1825 it was only a See also:village, but since then its vast stores of See also:coal and See also:iron have been See also:developed, and it is now the centre of the iron See also:trade of Scotland. Its prosperity was largely due to the ironmaster See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Baird (q.v.), who erected as many as sixteen blast-furnaces in the immediate neighbourhood between 183o and 1842. The See also:industries of Coat-See also:bridge produce malleable iron, boilers, tubes, See also:wire, tinplates and railway wagons, tiles, See also:fire-bricks and fire-See also:clay goods. There are two public parks in the See also:town, and its public buildings include a See also:theatre, a technical school and See also:mining See also:college, hospitals, and the See also:academy and Baird See also:Institute at Gartsherrie. See also:Janet See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton, the poetess (1795-1873), spent most of her See also:life at Langloannow a See also:part of Coatbridge—and a See also:fountain has been erected to her memory near the cottage in which she lived. For See also:parliamentary purposes the town, which became a municipal burgh in 1885, is included in the north-See also:west See also:division of Lanarkshire. About 4 M. west by See also:south lies the mining town of Baillieston (pop. 3784), with a station on the Caledonian railway. It has numerous collieries, a nursery and See also:market See also:garden.
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