Thomas Muir (24 August 1765 – 25 January 1799), also known as Thomas Muir the Younger of Huntershill, was a Scottish political reformer and lawyer. Muir...
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Thomas Muir may refer to: Thomas Muir (mathematician) (1844–1934), Scottish mathematician Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1765–1799), political reformer, leader...
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sailing ship on which Thomas Muir of Huntershill escaped from an Australian convict settlement in 1796 HMS Otter, several ships of the Royal Navy USS Otter...
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Scots Wha Hae (category Cultural depictions of William Wallace)
and particularly to the trial of Glasgow lawyer Thomas Muir of Huntershill, whose trial began on 30 August 1793 as part of a government crackdown, after...
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Meanwhile in Wales - "Timeline of Welsh Events, 1946-1956"". Laochra Uladh. 2 June 2013. "Thomas Muir of Huntershill". www.auchinairn.co.uk. Retrieved...
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mathematician Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1765–1799), Scottish political reformer Walter Muir (soccer) (born 1953), Scottish footballer Ward Muir (1878–1927)...
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William Honyman, Lord Armadale (category Senators of the College of Justice)
into the political reformer Thomas Muir of Huntershill, interrogating potential witnesses for Muir's show trial on a charge of sedition before the Lord Justice...
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or who have lived in the area include the political reformer Thomas Muir of Huntershill, the actor and writer Dirk Bogarde, TV and National Lottery draw...
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historically part of the Huntershill Estate, former residence of the political reformer Thomas Muir. It is also the former site of the Huntershill mining and...
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of the Lennoxmill workers supported the political reformer Thomas Muir of Huntershill in his campaigns to establish democracy in Scotland. Furthermore...
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Scottish Enlightenment (category History of the United Kingdom by period)
of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal Society James Mounsey (1709/10–1773) physician and naturalist Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1765–1799)...
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Pierre François Péron (category History of Sydney)
2010. McKenzie, Peter (1831). The Life of Thomas Muir, esq., Younger, of Huntershill. W.R.McPhun. "Thomas Muir". Edinburgh Advertiser. 1799. p. 109. Report...
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Pukapuka (category Atolls of the Cook Islands)
after it was sighted on 3 April 1796. The following day, Péron, Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1765–1799), and a small party landed ashore but the inhabitants...
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on the 15th day of October 1748. From the 1780s it was the family home of the political reformer Thomas Muir, Younger of Huntershill (1765–1799). Auchinairn...
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Otter (1795 ship) (category History of Sydney)
2010. McKenzie, Peter (1831). The Life of Thomas Muir, esq., Younger, of Huntershill. W.R.McPhun. "Thomas Muir". Edinburgh Advertiser. 1799. p. 109. Report...
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North Sydney, New South Wales (category Suburbs of Sydney)
owned by Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1765–1799), a Scottish political reformer. He purchased land in 1794 near the location where the north pylon of the Sydney...
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James Lapslie (category 19th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland)
trial of Thomas Muir of Huntershill in 1793. Kay drew him and dubbed him the "Pension Hunter" at the trial. He was born on 12 June 1750, the son of John...
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John Mortland (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
in the August 1793 trial of Thomas Muir of Huntershill for sedition. Mortland was one of the founders of the Scots Chronicle newspaper in 1796. The Chronicle...
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Old Calton Burial Ground (section Thomas Hamilton)
just landowners. The men became known as the Chartist Martyrs. Thomas Muir of Huntershill was their leading figure, and he, along with four others who followed...
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effectively destroy the Edinburgh lawyer, Thomas Muir of Huntershill, who he saw as responsible for most of the seditious mischief. He appeared for the...
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(1726–1797), founder of modern geology Sir John Leslie (1766–1832), mathematician, physicist and investigator of heat Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1765–1799),...
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Dundas Riots (category Political history of the United Kingdom)
Societies of Friends from across Scotland (aka the first Friends of the People Convention). Most notable of those present was Thomas Muir of Huntershill, a Glaswegian...
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Observatory completed on Calton Hill 1793: Sedition trials held:Thomas Muir of Huntershill and other radical reformers are sentenced to transportation 1794:...
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Gilbert Innes (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
Thomas Muir of Huntershill on the charge of sedition (campaigning for parliamentary reform). In 1800, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of...
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1765 in Scotland (category Years of the 18th century in Scotland)
engineer and mathematician (died 1844 in Carlisle) 24 August – Thomas Muir of Huntershill, radical (died 1799 in France) 24 October – James Mackintosh,...
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East Dunbartonshire (redirect from Wards of East Dunbartonshire)
Gallery Auld Kirk Museum Huntershill Village The Fort Theatre The Turret Theatre The Gadloch Huntershill Village Thomas Muir Thomas Muir Cairn - Erected by...
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Charles Tennant (category People of the Industrial Revolution)
leading light in the movement to honour Scotland's Political Martyr Thomas Muir of Huntershill, A public dinner was organised to take place on 17 January 1838...
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1793 in Scotland (category Years of the 18th century in Scotland)
Justice Clerk – Lord Braxfield 2 January – Radical Thomas Muir of Huntershill arrested on a charge of sedition but released on bail. 20 July – Stornoway-born...
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1796 in Scotland (category Years of the 18th century in Scotland)
predecessor of the University of Strathclyde, is founded under the will of Professor John Anderson. February – Thomas Muir of Huntershill, imprisoned...
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Wales, 1795–1805. Sydney: Library of Australian History. ISBN 0908120494. Bewley, Christina (1981). Muir of Huntershill. Oxford: Oxford University Press...
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