A Burgess of Edinburgh is an individual who has been granted a Burgess ticket in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland. Historically, to be a Burgess was to...
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are the Burgesses of Edinburgh. The burgesses' ancient exclusive trading rights through their Guilds were abolished in 1846. Thereafter a burgess became...
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Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. The Edinburgh Corporation had the power to make Burgesses (freemen) of the City of Edinburgh. The Edinburgh Corporation...
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Trades it forms part the Burgess Association of Edinburgh, an umbrella organisation for the trade bodies of the City of Edinburgh, who are discharged to...
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Edinburgh (/ˈɛdɪnbərə/ ED-in-bər-ə, Scots: [ˈɛdɪnbʌrə]; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann [t̪un ˈeːtʲən̪ˠ]) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its...
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of Glasgow, George Hepburn, Provost of Lincluden, William Borthwick, Rector of Whitsome, and Adam Hepburn, burgess of Edinburgh. Described as son of Sir...
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Company of Merchants it forms part the Burgess Association of Edinburgh, an umbrella organisation for the trade bodies of the City of Edinburgh, who are...
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Henry Lauder, Lord St Germains (category Burgesses in Scotland)
Lauder was a Baillie and burgess of Edinburgh, by right of his first wife Elizabeth Hoppar (d. before September 1525), a kinswoman of the influential Isobel...
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John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL (/ˈbɜːrdʒəs/; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer...
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Barbara Napier (category Year of birth unknown)
and she then married Archibald Douglas, a burgess of Edinburgh, whose brother Robert Douglas was the laird of Corshogill near Drumlanrig and Durisdeer...
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