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  • The Society of Writers to His Majesty's Signet is a private society of Scottish solicitors, dating back to 1594 and part of the College of Justice. Writers...
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    (1620–1681) was a writer to the Signet (lawyer) born in Scotland. Known for his work on important contracts such as those relating to the 1672 renovation...
    12 KB (1,667 words) - 19:59, 16 February 2024
  • Look up signet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Signet may refer to: Signet, Kenya, A subsidiary of the Kenyan Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), specifically...
    1 KB (195 words) - 00:08, 21 January 2024
  • James Campbell Reddie (category British erotica writers)
    a Writer to the Signet, beginning his apprenticeship under David Cleghorn on 10 December 1829. He continued in this profession until he relocated to England...
    10 KB (1,300 words) - 09:45, 4 July 2024
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    manuscript copy at the State Library of New South Wales identifies Michael Linning as the author. As a Writer to Her Majesty's Signet, Linning's role was...
    5 KB (626 words) - 21:56, 1 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws
    Mansfield College, Oxford, from 2011 to 2018. A Bencher of Gray's Inn, an Honorary Writer to the Signet and the recipient of 42 Honorary Degrees from...
    21 KB (1,809 words) - 00:50, 27 August 2024
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    Robert Stuart, Duke of Kintyre and Lorne (category Dukes in the Peerage of Scotland)
    was appointed to rock Robert's cradle. Isobel Colt, the nurse, was the wife of Patrick Smith, an Edinburgh lawyer and writer to the signet. She was dismissed...
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  • All-women shortlist Associate Writer to the Signet, a membership level in the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet Banu Aws (Sons of Aws), a tribe...
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    the Signet, the Lord Clerk Register executes ceremonial functions as the senior officer of the Society of Writers to the Signet. Writers to the Signet historically...
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    Charles Bell (category Scottish medical writers)
    included Robert Bell (1757–1816) a Writer to the Signet, John Bell (1763–1820), also a noted surgeon and writer; and the advocate George Joseph Bell (1770–1843)...
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    branch of the Clan Scott and a Writer to the Signet, and his wife Anne Rutherford, a sister of Daniel Rutherford and a descendant both of the Clan Swinton...
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    William Edmondstoune Aytoun (category 19th-century Scottish writers)
    1834. On returning to Scotland, Aytoun resumed his legal studies in his father's chambers. He was admitted a writer to the signet in 1835, and five years...
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    Leander Starr Jameson (category Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
    the ill-fated Jameson Raid. He was born on 9 February 1853, the youngest of 12 children of Robert William Jameson (1805–1868), a Writer to the Signet...
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    Greyfriars Kirkyard (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    Saughtonhall (1630–1697), Cashier of the Scottish Carolina Company John Bayne of Pitcairlie (1620–1681), Writer to the Signet Leslie Balfour-Melville (1854–1937)...
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    Lord of Pittenweem (category Baronies in the Baronage of Scotland)
    Pittenweem in 1856. The Lordship passed to Lady Lavinia Enid Muriel Baird in 1961 and was conveyed to the lawyer and Writer to The Signet William Ronald Crawford...
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    Adam Smith (category 18th-century Scottish writers)
    by writers such as Horace Walpole. Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, in Fife, Scotland. His father, Adam Smith senior, was a Scottish Writer to the Signet (senior...
    106 KB (12,360 words) - 18:05, 27 August 2024
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    and entered the office of Walter Dickson, Esq., W.S. He was apprentice to Walter Dickson and James Steuart. He became a Writer to the Signet on 27 June...
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    Churchyard. His memorial inscription reads: Sacred to the memory of Robert Ainslie, Writer to the Signet who was born at Berrywell near Duns on 13th. January...
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    period, in 1698, the estate of Corstorphine was sold to Hugh Wallace of Ingliston, a Writer to the Signet. He later, in 1713, sold it to Sir James Dick...
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  • Writers to the Signet before MPs, while Black's lists them together. "RN" or "RNR" is used for officers with the rank of Commodore or below. In the Army...
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