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Wigtown

(Encyclopedia)Wigtown, former county, Scotland: see Wigtownshire. ...

Berks

(Encyclopedia)Berks, former county, England: see Berkshire. ...

Berwick

(Encyclopedia)Berwick, former county, Scotland: see Berwickshire. ...

Roxburgh

(Encyclopedia)Roxburgh, former county, Scotland: see Roxburghshire. ...

Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan

(Encyclopedia)Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan, 1816–1903, Irish-Australian statesman. He founded (1842) the Nation, a patriotic Irish literary journal. Duffy agitated for the repeal of the union of Ireland and England, ...

Tennent, William

(Encyclopedia)Tennent, William, 1673–1745, American Presbyterian clergyman and educator, b. Ireland, grad. Univ. of Edinburgh, 1695. He was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1706. He emigrated to America c.171...

Bute

(Encyclopedia)Bute or Buteshire, former county, W Scotland, consisting mainly of the islands of Bute and Arran. Under the Local Government Act of 1973, Bute became (1975) part of the new Strathclyde region. In the ...

Cromarty

(Encyclopedia)Cromarty, county, Scotland: see Ross and Cromarty. ...

Shetland

(Encyclopedia)Shetland, former county, Scotland: see under Shetland Islands. ...

Gwent

(Encyclopedia)Gwent gwĕnt [key], former county, SE Wales. Created in the 1974 administrative reorganization of Wales from most of Monmouthshire and part of Breconshire, it was dissolved in 1996 and divided among t...