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    Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain...
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    John Walter Scott (November 2, 1845 – January 4, 1919) of New York City, was originally from England, but he emigrated to the United States to take part...
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    Walter John Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch and 10th Duke of Queensberry, KT, GCVO, TD, PC (30 December 1894 – 4 October 1973) was a British...
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  • On April 4, 2015, Walter Scott, a 50-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Michael Slager, a local police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina...
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    the family traced their descent back to a Sir Richard le Scott (1240–1285). Sir Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch (died 1552) distinguished himself...
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    Walter Francis John Montagu Douglas Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch and 11th Duke of Queensberry, KT, VRD, JP, DL (28 September 1923 – 4 September 2007)...
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  • John Scott may refer to: John Scott (1639–1695), English clergyman and devotional writer John Witherspoon Scott (1800–1892), American minister, college...
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  • John Walter Scott Biggar (March 21, 1843 – July 3, 1897) was an Ontario, Canada farmer and political figure. He represented Bruce North in the Legislative...
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  • stamps and postal history items. He was the son of philatelist John Walter Scott. Walter Scott started his business of selling rare postage stamps in New...
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    Richard Walter John Montagu Douglas Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch and 12th Duke of Queensberry, KT, KBE, CVO, DL, FSA, FRSE, FRSGS (born 14 February 1954)...
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    his son, Walter. 18 September 1886 – 5 November 1914: John Charles Montagu Douglas Scott, Earl of Dalkeith 5 November 1914: His Grace, Sir John Charles...
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    The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second-largest monument to a writer in the world after...
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    (1806) Scott baronets of Abbotsford (1820) Scott baronets of Lytchet Minster (1821) Scott baronets of Connaught Place (1899): see Sir John Scott, 1st Baronet...
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  • The Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction is a British literary award founded in 2010. At £25,000, it is one of the largest literary awards in the...
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    Ivanhoe (category Novels by Walter Scott)
    Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. It marked a shift away from Scott's prior...
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    Walter Scott Jr. (May 21, 1931 – September 25, 2021) was an American billionaire businessman, civil engineer, philanthropist, and CEO of Kiewit Corporation...
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    seven-volume biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. He produced four novels in the early 1820s...
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    John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu KCIE CSI DL (10 June 1866 – 30 March 1929), was a British Conservative politician...
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    William Henry Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch and 8th Duke of Queensberry, KG, PC, JP, DL (9 September 1831 – 5 November 1914) was...
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    Walter Scott of Harden (1550 – 1629), also known as Auld Wat, was a notorious border reiver along the Anglo-Scottish border in the 16th century. The son...
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  • Walter Scott's "Memoirs", first published as "Memoir of the Early Life of Sir Walter Scott, Written by Himself" and also known as the Ashestiel fragment...
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  • historically associated with two specific "Scotts": Scottish author Sir Walter Scott and, later, US general Winfield Scott. It is a catchphrase of the fictional...
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    Walter Francis Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, 7th Duke of Queensberry, KG, KT, PC, FRS, FRSE (25 November 1806 – 16 April 1884), styled...
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  • Walter John Kilner MRCP (1847–1920) was a British medical electrician at St. Thomas Hospital, London. There, from 1879 to 1893, he was in charge of electrotherapy...
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  • Current Value of each Variety. It was published in September 1868 by John Walter Scott, an early stamp dealer in New York, and purported to list all the...
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    literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Romantic writer Sir Walter Scott called him "Glorious John". Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near...
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  • Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (2001) Ehrlich, Walter (2007). They Have No Rights: Dred Scott's Struggle for Freedom...
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  • The letters of Sir Walter Scott, the novelist and poet, range in date from September 1788, when he was aged 17, to June 1832, a few weeks before his death...
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    Walter Dill Scott (May 1, 1869 – September 24, 1955) was an American psychologist and academic administrator who was one of the first applied psychologists...
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  • Devon Patricia Scott (born November 29, 1958) is an American actress and daughter of actor/producer George C. Scott. She appeared as Roberta Franklin,...
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