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    John Edmonstone was a taxidermist and teacher of taxidermy in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was an influential Black Briton. Born into slavery on a wood plantation...
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  • in India James Edmonstone (c. 1720–1793), Scottish army officer and agriculturalist John Edmonstone, British taxidermist John Edmonstone of that Ilk (died...
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  • John Edmonstone of that Ilk (died c. 1410), was a Scottish nobleman. John was the eldest son of John Edmonstone of Boyne. He fought at the Battle of Otterburn...
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    studies. He learned taxidermy in around 40 daily hour-long sessions from John Edmonstone, a freed black slave who had accompanied Charles Waterton in the South...
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    Admiral Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet CB, DL (29 January 1810 – 18 February 1888), also 14th of Duntreath, was a British naval commander, courtier...
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    Alice Frederica Keppel (née Edmonstone; 29 April 1868 – 11 September 1947) was an aristocrat, British society hostess and a long-time mistress of King...
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  • Clan Edmonstone is a Scottish clan which does not currently have a chief; therefore, it is considered an armigerous clan. However, Sir Archibald Bruce...
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  • Constantine John Conteh William Cuffay   Ottobah Cuguano Craig David Des'ree Desmond Douglas Niger Val Dub Ms. Dynamite John Edmonstone Olaudah Equiano...
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    Joseph Ketley (1802–1875), Congregational missionary, mid 19th century. John Edmonstone (late 18th century–mid 19th century), a freed slave who taught Charles...
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    Talbot Rice Gallery, its main features still in place). The taxidermist John Edmonstone undertook work for the museum, and in 1826 gave private lessons to...
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    the Galápagos. He had learned how to preserve bird specimens from John Edmonstone while at the University of Edinburgh and had been keen on shooting...
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    in 1388), followed in 1389 by John Edmonstone of that Ilk. Johanna (Jean), married Sir John Keith (died 1375), then John Lyon, Lord of Glamis (died 1383)...
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  • married firstly, James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas, and secondly, John Edmonstone of that Ilk Katherine Stewart, married Sir Robert Logan of Grugar and...
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    The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (category John Murray (publishing house) books)
    distinct species or races." He drew on his memories of Jemmy Button and John Edmonstone to emphasise "the numerous points of mental similarity between the...
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    Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (7 September 1782 – 5 November 1854) was a Scottish novelist. Her novels, giving vivid accounts of Scottish life and presenting...
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    John Wauchope, Lord Edmonstone (1633–1709) was a 17th-century Scottish lawyer and Senator of the College of Justice. He was born at Niddrie House south...
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    Guiana Waterton taught his skills to one of his uncle's slaves, John Edmonstone. Edmonstone, by then freed and practising taxidermy in Edinburgh, in turn...
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    principal local family were the Edmonstones of Duntreath who had ancient links to the Kings of Scotland. In 1374 Sir John Edmonstone was an ambassador to France...
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  • months". These lessons in taxidermy were with the freed black slave John Edmonstone, who also lived in Lothian Street. Darwin often sat with him to hear...
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  • James Edmonstone FRSE (c. 1720 – 1793) was a Scottish army officer and agriculturalist. He was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783...
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    his early scientific writing with his taxidermy teacher in Edinburgh John Edmonstone, a freed slave from Guiana. Since 2013, Padel has written and performed...
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  • Evelyn Browne (Feb. 1909–1992), married Cdr Edward St John Edmonstone, son of Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 5th Baronet "Lord Kilmaine". The Times. 29 August...
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  • Malcolm Edmonstone (born 1980, Perth, Scotland) is a British jazz pianist and pop arranger. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where...
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    Neil Benjamin Edmonstone (1765–1841) was a civil servant in and director of the East India Company. Edmonstone, born on 6 December 1765, was fifth son...
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    4 April 1923. In 1868, Venn married Susanna Carnegie Edmonstone with whom he had one son, John Archibald Venn. His son entered the mathematics field...
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  • Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 1st Baronet (10 October 1717 – 20 July 1807), also 11th of Duntreath, was a Scottish politician. Born at Dumbarton, Silver Banks...
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    (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 77.  Cousin, John William (1910), "Aytoun, William Edmonstone", A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature...
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    Sonia Rosemary Keppel (category Edmonstone family)
    (1865-1947) and Alice Frederica Keppel (née Edmonstone) (1868-1947). Alice was the youngest child of Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet, while George was a son...
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  • Sir Charles Edmonstone, 2nd Baronet (10 October 1764 – 1 April 1821), also 12th of Duntreath, was a Scottish politician. Edmonstone was the third son...
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    of the five daughters of John Drummond, 1st Lord Drummond, secondly Janet Edmonstone, daughter of Sir Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath and thirdly Christian...
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