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    James Tytler (17 December 1745 – 11 January 1804) was a Scottish apothecary and the editor of the second edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. Tytler became...
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    Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee FRSE (15 October 1747 – 5 January 1813) was a Scottish advocate, judge, writer, and historian who was a Professor...
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    Jagdish Tytler (born Jagdish Kapoor; 17 August 1944) is an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament. He has held several government positions...
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  • Harry Christopher Tytler (1868–1938), British soldier and entomologist Jagdish Tytler (born 1944), Indian politician James Tytler (born 1745), Scottish...
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    scientific articles, as well as the minor articles, were written by James Tytler. All copperplates were created by Bell. Vol 1. A 1778; Vol 2. A-B 1778;...
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    James Fraser Tytler of Woodhouselee WS FRSE (1780–1862) was a 19th-century Scottish lawyer and Depute to the Lord Lyon, dealing with heraldic matters...
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    Work), a poem of James I of Scotland. In 1783 he was one of the joint founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The son of Alexander Tytler, a lawyer ("writer")...
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  • Rev. James Douglas Tytler, commonly referred to as J. D. Tytler, (31 March 1898 – 13 September 1973) was an Indian educationist of Scottish descent. He...
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    pharmacist James Tytler, M.A., who was known as an able writer and willing to work for a very low wage. Macfarquhar and Bell rescued Tytler from the debtors'...
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  • Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm (1902–1924), James Louis Garvin (1926–1932), Franklin Henry Hooper (1932–1938), Walter Yust...
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    philanthropist, mother of Donald Trump John Thomson (1837–1921), photographer James Tytler (1745–1804), apothecary, editor of the second edition of Encyclopædia...
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    Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation as erroneous. Instead, authors James Tytler and Gleig wrote that gravity is caused by the classical element of fire...
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    the Chantilly forest. The first balloon ascent in Britain was made by James Tytler on 25 August 1784 at Edinburgh, Scotland, in a hot air balloon. The first...
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    July 1). The first manned balloon flight in Britain was by James Tytler on 27 August 1784. Tytler flew his balloon from Abbeyhill to Restalrig, then suburbs...
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    publications, the Edinburgh Gazeteer and the Caledonian Chronicle, plus James Tytler's Historical Register, the new movement rapidly expanded. Muir travelled...
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    Patrick Fraser Tytler FRSE FSA(Scot) (30 August 1791 – 24 December 1849) was a Scottish advocate and historian. He was described as the "Episcopalian historian...
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  • Lennox, English novelist and playwright (born c. 1730) January 11 – James Tytler, Scottish American editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (born 1745) February...
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  • brother of James Tytler. He was one of the early members of the Physical Society of Edinburgh. First practising as a physician in Brechin, Tytler then went...
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    s4-VI (148): 377–378. doi:10.1093/nq/s4-vi.148.377-g. Grant, Sir Francis James (1945). Court of the Lord Lyon: List of His Majesty's Officers of Arms and...
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    Jewel. Douglas, Francis (1760). Life of James Crichton of Clunie. Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1819). Life of James Crichton of Cluny, Commonly Called the Admirable...
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  • Dominion of Canada in 1867 and later sixth Prime Minister of Canada James Tytler (1745–1804), apothecary, editor of second edition of Encyclopædia Britannica...
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  • prime minister of Canada. James Tytler – Scottish apothecary and the editor of the second edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. Tytler became the first person...
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  • Tyson (1651–1708, England, nf) Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958, US, nf) James Tytler (1745–1804, Scotland, nf) Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873, Russian E, p) Tristan...
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    along the same lines as London's Vauxhall Gardens. It was from here that James Tytler made Britain's first hot-air balloon flight in 1784, landing about half...
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  • of 66 of Edinburgh's prostitutes. The author was later revealed to be James Tytler, editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica. A typical entry: Miss Sutherland...
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    Renfrew (1818) Retrieved November 2010 Tytler (1866) vol.iii, p.192–3 Brown, Michael, James I, pp. 65–6 Tytler, Patrick Fraser, The History of Scotland...
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    by Charles Lees called Skaters on Duddingston Loch by Moonlight. Dr. James Tytler (1745–1804), author, balloonist and encyclopedist, lived in Duddingston...
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  • report: Credible evidence against Tytler". Rediff. "Congress.gov - Library of Congress". www.congress.gov. Pereira, James (8 January 2022). "Meditation and...
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    Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Duff Tytler FRSE (1760–1849) was an 18th-century Scottish soldier who oversaw Stirling Castle. He was born in the spring of...
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  • of conjectural history from a biblical angle. In the second edition James Tytler opposed the polygenist approach of Kames. The third edition, under the...
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