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1Mar Lodge Estate — is a Scottish Highland estate in Aberdeenshire, owned by the National Trust for Scotland. It is entirely contained within the Cairngorms National Park and important for nature conservation, landscape, recreation and culture. Contents 1 Geography… …
2Thorntoun house and estate — Thorntoun School was opened by Barnardo s in September 1971 for children with emotional difficulties aged 11 to 16 years. The school closed in 1990 and Thorntoun is now a Nursing Home. The complex lies between the villages of Springside (North… …
3Oulton Estate — For other places with the same name, see Oulton (disambiguation). North elevation of Oulton Hall c. 1735 In the early 18th century the Oulton Estate consisted of a manor house and a formal garden surrounded by farmland in Cheshire, England. Later …
4Marchmont Estate — For other uses, see Marchmont (disambiguation). The Avenue, Marchmont Estate Marchmont Estate lies near the village of Greenlaw in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, circa 45 miles (72 km) south east of Edinburgh. It is… …
5The Bedford Estate — Looking north across Bloomsbury Square on the Bedford Estate with Bedford House behind, c1725 …
6Nicholas Aylward Vigors — (1785 – 26 October 1840) was an Irish zoologist and politician. Vigors was born at Old Leighlin, County Carlow. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford. He served in the army during the Peninsular War from 1809 to 1811. He then returned to Oxford,… …
7Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet — (1553 ndash; March 1, 1627), Welsh baronet, Member of Parliament and antiquary, was the son of Morys Wynn ap John and directly descended from the princes of Gwynedd through Rhodri ab Owain son of Owain Gwynedd. (This claim is disputed in a… …
8Oda Nobunaga — born 1534, Owari province, Japan died June 21, 1582, Kyōto With Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, one of the three unifiers of premodern Japan. He brought the domain of his birth, Owari, under his control and followed that success by… …
9SHENSTONE, WILLIAM — poet, born, the son of a landed proprietor, at Hales Owen, Shropshire; was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, and during the years 1737 42 produced three vols. of poetry, the most noted being The Schoolmistress ; succeeded to his father s… …
10Elisabeth of Nuremberg — Elisabeth, Burggravine of Nuremberg, was the daughter of Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg and Elisabeth of Meissen. She was a member of the House of Hohenzollern.She was born in 1358, and on 27 June 1374 married Rupert, then heir to the Elector …
