John Gowdie (1682–1762) was a Scottish academic and Church of Scotland minister. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in...
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Gowdie is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Isobel Gowdie, Scottish woman who confessed to witchcraft in 1662 John Gowdie (1682–1762)...
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Isobel Gowdie was a Scottish woman who confessed to witchcraft at Auldearn near Nairn during 1662. Scant information is available about her age or life...
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Eleanor) Robertson, married John Russell WS FRSE (1753–1792), a Director of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Their children included John Russell WS FRSE (1780–1862)...
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(CP) Dr John Gordon (1786–1818), anatomist and anti-phrenologist Lewis Duncan Brodie Gordon (1815–1876), civil engineer Very Rev Prof John Gowdie (1682–1762)...
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Smith 1736 William Wishart (secundus) 1754 John Gowdie 1762 William Robertson 1793 George Husband Baird 1840 John Lee 1859 David Brewster 1868 Alexander Grant...
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Symphony Orchestra's premiere of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie at the BBC Proms in 1990. Isobel Gowdie was one of many women executed for witchcraft in 17th-century...
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Derek Molloy, Hall Greenland, Helen Gray, Jim Spigelman, John Butterworth, John Gowdie, John Powles, Judith Rich, Louise Higham, Machteld Hali, Norm Mackay...
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Tracey L.; Langdon, Maria M.; Ferguson, Caroline; Adu, Dwomoa; Feehally, John; Gaskin, Gillian J.; Jayne, David R.W.; O'Donoghue, Donal; Boulton-Jones...
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In a review of Charles Babbage's book Decline of Science in England in John Murray's Quarterly Review, he suggested the creation of "an association of...
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