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MCCOMBIE, WILLIAM (1805-188o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 205 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MCCOMBIE, See also:WILLIAM (1805-188o) , Scottish agriculturist, was See also:born at Tillyfour, See also:Aberdeenshire, where he founded the See also:herd of See also:black-polled See also:cattle with which his name is associated. He was the first See also:tenant See also:farmer to represent a Scottish See also:constituency, and was returned to See also:parliament, unopposed, as Liberal member for the western See also:division of See also:Aberdeen in 1868. He died unmarried in See also:February 1880. His See also:work Cattle and Cattle-breeders (1867) passed into a See also:fourth edition in 1886.

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