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Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock (11 May 1927 – 19 March 2009) was a Scottish writer, Hispanophile, and Chief of the Clan Boyd. Early life [ edit ] Boyd was born into an aristocratic British family, and served as a pageboy at the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth .
ISBN. 0-903937-74-3. OCLC. 12635568. Lanark, subtitled A Life in Four Books, is the first novel of Scottish writer Alasdair Gray. Written over a period of almost thirty years, it combines realist and dystopian surrealist depictions of his home city of Glasgow . Its publication in 1981 prompted Anthony Burgess to call Gray "the best Scottish ...
The Mississippi Bubble. 1720. Kingdom of France. Banque Royale by John Law stopped payments of its note in exchange for specie and as result caused economic collapse in France . South Sea Bubble of 1720. 1720. UK. Affected early European stock markets, during early days of chartered joint stock companies. Bengal Bubble of 1769.
When Eight Bells Toll is a first-person narrative novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean and published in 1966. It marked MacLean's return after a three-year gap, following the publication of Ice Station Zebra (1963), during which time he had run several restaurants. [ 1][ 2] When Eight Bells Toll combines the genres of spy novel and ...
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The Yeomen of the Guard; or, The Merryman and His Maid, is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 3 October 1888 and ran for 423 performances. This was the eleventh collaboration of fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan . The opera is set in the Tower of London during the ...
Alistair Stuart MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, most notably The Guns of Navarone (1957) and Ice Station Zebra (1963).