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Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Tinto63 » Thu Sep 07, 2017 8:48 am

Thanks Sgurr. Now try this one: C one time home of notable writer, philosopher, historian.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Thu Sep 07, 2017 12:48 pm

Tinto63 wrote:Thanks Sgurr. Now try this one: C one time home of notable writer, philosopher, historian.

Is it Canongate, home of Henry Home, Lord Kames...and Dugald Stewart is buriesd in Canongate Kirkyard
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Tinto63 » Thu Sep 07, 2017 4:47 pm

Not there Sgurr, just one person, I suppose he would be called a polymath these days. He also lived for a time in CB.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Thu Sep 07, 2017 5:27 pm

Hector Boece (Boethius) lived in Carnoustie at one time.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Tinto63 » Thu Sep 07, 2017 9:12 pm

Sorry Sgurr, a lot more recent than Hector Boece. Try 19th century.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Thu Sep 07, 2017 9:23 pm

Don't think this will do, as RLS only visited his grandfather in Colinton
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Tinto63 » Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:55 pm

Not RLS. There is a mathematical circle named after him, although this might be more of a red herring than a help in getting to C!
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Thu Sep 07, 2017 11:27 pm

Thomss Carlyle.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Tinto63 » Fri Sep 08, 2017 4:16 pm

That didn't confuse you, Charles. But at what C did he live at for some time?
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Fri Sep 08, 2017 4:40 pm

Tinto63 wrote:That didn't confuse you, Charles. But at what C did he live at for some time?


Sorry, Craigenputtock.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Tinto63 » Fri Sep 08, 2017 5:18 pm

That's the one, Charles, a great name for a farm and still shown on Landranger 78 (NX770823). The CB that I mentioned above is Comely Bank, Edinburgh.

Over to you.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Fri Sep 08, 2017 6:10 pm

Tinto63 wrote:That's the one, Charles, a great name for a farm and still shown on Landranger 78 (NX770823). The CB that I mentioned above is Comely Bank, Edinburgh.

Over to you.


Thanks. Strangely I knew it was Carlyle and that he lived there, but couldn't recall the name.

Puttock is an old word for a bird of prey, for what that's worth.

Now, MoU preceded BC whose founder also established one of the oldest English academic institutions.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Sun Sep 10, 2017 11:00 am

CharlesT wrote:
Tinto63 wrote:That's the one, Charles, a great name for a farm and still shown on Landranger 78 (NX770823). The CB that I mentioned above is Comely Bank, Edinburgh.

Over to you.


Thanks. Strangely I knew it was Carlyle and that he lived there, but couldn't recall the name.

Puttock is an old word for a bird of prey, for what that's worth.

Now, MoU preceded BC whose founder also established one of the oldest English academic institutions.


And fathered a somewhat ineffectual ruler.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Mon Sep 11, 2017 10:08 am

CharlesT wrote:
CharlesT wrote:
Tinto63 wrote:That's the one, Charles, a great name for a farm and still shown on Landranger 78 (NX770823). The CB that I mentioned above is Comely Bank, Edinburgh.

Over to you.


Thanks. Strangely I knew it was Carlyle and that he lived there, but couldn't recall the name.

Puttock is an old word for a bird of prey, for what that's worth.

Now, MoU preceded BC whose founder also established one of the oldest English academic institutions.


And fathered a somewhat ineffectual ruler.


Bit of a challenge, hmm..,

Pre-deceasing his wife, a lady of royal heritage and wealth, it was later left to her to fulfill his obligations to fund the eponymous college, an obligation arising from a dispute with the Bishop of Durham.

If that doesn't do it, I have a raft of other tid-bits to tease you with.

Come on you medievalists. :D
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Tue Sep 12, 2017 7:15 pm

No takers, do they teach pre-enlightenment history in Scotland? :D

The lady in question is remembered by a striking modern sculpture on the bank of a river.

Discover her and the rest should be easy. :wink:
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