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    William Forbes Skene WS FRSE FSA(Scot) DCL LLD (7 June 1809 – 29 August 1892), was a Scottish lawyer, historian and antiquary. He co-founded the Scottish...
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  • William Skene may refer to: William Forbes Skene (1809–1892), Scottish lawyer and antiquarian William Baillie Skene (1838–1911) Scottish academic and...
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    history as the last Irish King to be crowned on it. However, historian William Forbes Skene commented: "It is somewhat remarkable that while the Scottish legend...
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    The Four Ancient Books of Wales is a term coined by William Forbes Skene to describe four important medieval manuscripts written in Middle Welsh and dating...
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    Picts and Caledonians were red haired (rutilantia). Scholars such as William Forbes Skene noted that this description matches Tacitus' description of the Caledonians...
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  • the basis for Dmitri Shostakovich's 1936 opera of the same name. William Forbes Skene, Chronicles, p. 102. Aitchison, Nicholas Boyter (1999). Macbeth:...
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    William Forbes Skene the charter exists in the Forbes charter chest in tattered but quite legible condition. The next mention is a John Forbes, whose name...
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    John of Fordun, Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, ed. William Forbes Skene, tr. Felix J.H. Skene, 2 vols. Reprinted, Llanerch Press, Lampeter, 1993. ISBN 1-897853-05-X...
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    Statesman, Sir John Scot. William Forbes Skene, Memorials of the family of Skene of Skene (Aberdeen, 1887), p. 112. "Skene, John" . Dictionary of National...
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  • Regents William Forbes Mackenzie (1807–1862), Scottish Conservative politician William Forbes Skene (1809–1892), Scottish historian and antiquary William Forbes...
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    come from Carmarthen Priory. Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin was described by William Forbes Skene (1809–92) as one of the Four Ancient Books of Wales. Written before...
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    appear as Bernicia, rather than Ireland (Hibernia), in some versions. William Forbes Skene saw a connection between this and the account in the Historia de...
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  • James Skene of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen. His brothers included the writer William Forbes Skene and his sisters the writer Felicia Mary Frances Skene. He...
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  • polo player Robert Skene (cricketer) (1908–1988), English cricketer William Forbes Skene (born 1809), Scottish historian and antiquary Sims, Clifford Stanley...
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  • of British and that Gaelic was a later introduction from Ireland. William Forbes Skene argued in 1837 that Pictish was a Goidelic language, the ancestor...
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    Entries in the Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, collected by William Forbes Skene, provide the account of Finnela killing Kenneth II in revenge, but...
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  • John of Fordun, Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, ed. William Forbes Skene, tr. Felix J.H. Skene, 2 vols. Reprinted, Lampeter: Llanerch Press, 1993. ISBN 1-897853-05-X...
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  • ancient dignity, the holder of which was called abthanus or abthane. William Forbes Skene holds that the correct meaning of abthain (or abthane) is not "abbot"...
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    any, of the Prophecy of Berchán's kings should be taken to be Áed. William Forbes Skene presumed that the following verses referred to Áed: 129. Another...
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    the Germanicist model was destroyed in the nineteenth century when William Forbes Skene and others brought medieval Scotland into the frame of serious, recognisably...
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    Donnachaidh, 1275 – 1749 and Highlanders at Bannockburn. Quoting: William Forbes Skene, vol. 11. pp. 140. Printed by Wood and Son, Mill Street, Perth. Moncreiffe...
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    John of Fordun, Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, ed. William Forbes Skene, tr. Felix J.H. Skene, 2 vols. Reprinted, Llanerch Press, Lampeter, 1993. ISBN 1-897853-05-X...
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  • him buried at Dunfermline Abbey, the other at the isle of Iona. William Forbes Skene viewed the conflict between Donald III and Duncan II as being essentially...
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  • surgeon 103 – James Maidment. legal author 113 – William Bonnar, artist 126 – William Forbes Skene 58 - Alexander Adie, optician 2-7 - Woolworths now...
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    p. 231. A. O. Anderson, Early Sources, pp. 232–3 Felix J. H. Skene & William Forbes Skene (ed.), John of Fordun's Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, (Edinburgh...
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    John of Fordun, Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, ed. William Forbes Skene, tr. Felix J.H. Skene, 2 vols. Reprinted, Llanerch Press, Lampeter, 1993. ISBN 1-897853-05-X...
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    beheaded on a Fife beach, following a battle at Fife Ness, near Crail. William Forbes Skene reads the Chronicle as placing Causantín's death at Inverdovat (by...
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  • suggesting the area was located somewhere in northern Britain. William Forbes Skene suggested an identification with Kelso (formerly Calchow) in southern...
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  • Inverey. Still other accounts have him martyred with Adrian on May. William Forbes Skene rejects the account in the Aberdeen Breviary, and suggests that Monan...
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    in 1535. There are accounts, including by William Forbes Skene and Alexander Macbain, that state that William Mackintosh, 15th of Mackintosh had burned...
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