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RENTON , a manufacturing See also:town of See also:Dumbartonshire' See also:Scotland. Pop. (19o1) 5067. It is situated on the See also:Leven, 2 in. N.N.W. of See also:Dumbarton by the See also:North See also:British and Caledonian See also:railways. The leading See also:industry is See also:Turkey red See also:dyeing, and See also:calico-See also:printing and See also:bleaching are also carried on. A See also:parish 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 stands on the site of Dalquhurn See also:House, the birthplace of Tobias See also:Smollett the novelist, to whose memory a Tuscan See also:column was erected in 1774, the inscription for which was revised by Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson when he visited Bonhill in that See also:year with See also:Boswell. The town was founded in 1782 by Mrs Smollett—previously Mrs Telferof Bonhill (See also:sister of Tobias Smollett), who resumed her See also:maiden name when she succeeded to the Smollett estates; it was named after See also:Cecilia Renton, daughter of See also:John Renton of Blackadder, who had married Mrs Smollett's son, See also:Alexander Telfer.
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