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Sometimes Mother Mary just has to look away and let you, do you
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Leafy mornings in Edinburgh Back from my first film camera shoot
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Gabrielle Ray - Robin Hood - The Scotsman - 27th December 1921
Gabrielle Ray – Robin Hood – The Scotsman – 27th December 1921
16th May 1823 saw the death in France of Grace Elliott, the renowned Scottish society beauty and courtesan who witnessed at first hand the French Revolution.
Born in Edinburgh in 1754, Grace Dalrymple Elliott became one of the most sought after women in Europe.
Educated in a French convent, her barrister father Hew Dalrymple later introduced her to Edinburgh society where she received numerous marriage proposals. Grace, however, fearless, beautiful and wild, was to reject tradition.
Unhappily married and then divorced, she went on to have affairs with the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Orleans, later known as Philippe Egalité.
She lived a scandalous and remarkable life, maintaining dangerous alliances and surviving treachery and betrayal.
Her memoir, an eyewitness account of the Revolution, recounts a time of turbulent politics, dark days and lethal enemies during an infamous time in history, which she witnessed while living in Paris.
Entertaining her relationship with the Duke of Orleans, Grace had unprecedented access to the highest ranks of court life, which she vividly recounts. After her arrival in Paris she was forced to escape violent Revolutionists and the Mob to stay in Meudon, where she was at the mercy of domestic spies and harboured a wanted man.
Unable to fleehome, she was then imprisoned and became gravely ill.
Although many of her friends met their deaths, including Madame du Barry, Grace only narrowly escaped the guillotine herself. She narrowly avoided death and was released after the Reign of Terror came to an end, not before she had been confined in a total to four different prisons by the Republican government. In later years, there were rumours that she had an attachment with Napoleon Bonaparte, but had rejected his offer of marriage. She died a wealthy woman at Ville d'Avray, in present-day Hauts-de-Seine, in May 1823, while a lodger with the commune’s mayor. Her memoirs were published in 1859.
There’s a wee bit more on her here
https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/socialite-spy-saviour-grace-dalrymple-elliott/
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Professor Hector Munro Macdonald, one of Europe’s foremost mathematicians, died on the 16th of May, 1935.
Hector was born in Edinburgh in 1865, the son of Donald MacDonald, originally of Kiltearn, Ross-shire, and his wife Annie, daughter of Hector Munro of Kiltearn.
Hector’s earliest education was in Edinburgh, but after his parents movrf the family to Fearn, in Easter Ross, he went to school there, and afterwards to the Royal Academy, Tain, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, and the University of Aberdeen, where he graduated in 1886 with First-Class Honours in Mathematics and won a Fullerton Scholarship.
Macdonald proceeded to Cambridge after completing his first degree in Scotland. Entering Clare College, Cambridge, as a foundation scholar, he graduated in the Mathematical Tripos of 1889, was awarded a fellowship at Clare in the following year and, in 1891, was awarded the second Smith’s Prize.
In 1901 he received the Adams Prize and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS). He was awarded the Royal Society’s Royal Medal in 1916.
Macdonald held his fellowship at Clare College until 1908 and in 1914 he was awarded an honorary fellowship of his former College. From 1916 to 1918 he served as President of the London Mathematical Society. During World War I, Macdonald did war service in London attached to the Ministry of Munitions where he dealt with wages. He was transferred to the Ministry of Labour in 1916, where he remained until 1919.
Macdonald worked on electric waves and solved difficult problems regarding diffraction of these waves by summing series of Bessel functions. He corrected his 1903 solution to the problem of a perfectly conducting sphere embedded in an infinite *geneous dielectric in 1904 after a subtle error was pointed out by Poincaré. The major problem which he tackled was that of wireless waves. About the time that Macdonald published his prize winning essay on electric waves, Guglielmo Marconi was successful in the transmission of the first wireless signals across the Atlantic. However this posed a major problem at first because wireless signals, like light, should not be capable of being bent round the surface of the earth as apparently Marconi wireless signals were. Macdonald suggested that the wireless waves were being refracted by the atmosphere. It is now known that in fact the waves are reflected by the ionosphere.
Macdonald became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Aberdeen in 1905 and remained at the University for the rest of his life.
Pics are of Hector and his grave at St Machar’s Cathedral Aberdeen.
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At #thedaydreamerbrunch in association with @debenhams… #Edinburgh #Edinburghbloggers #brunch #debenhams
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Jean-Francois Raffaelli, French, 1850-1924, Princess St., Edinburgh
Sothebys, 19th Century European Art, New York, Nov 4th
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@majkadamka and Jonathan the seagull #edinburgh #scotland #portobello #beach #seagulls #sea #traveling #traveler #wander #wanderer #wanderlust #insta_svk #dnes_cestujem #cestovanie #plaz #northsea #severnemore (na mieste Portobello, Edinburgh)
Centenary of Edinburgh Zeppelin Raid
Tonight marks 100 years since two Imperial German Zeppelins attacked Edinburgh and Leith resulting in the deaths of 13 people and injuring 24 others.
On the night of the 2nd April, 1916 four Zeppelins set out from the German Naval Airbase base of Nordholz with the intention to find and destroy targets of interest in and around the Firth of Forth especially the large Naval facilities of Rosyth. One of the Zeppelins, L13 was forced to turn back due to technical difficulties whilst L16 made an abortive journey to Northumberland.
The remaining two Zeppelins: L14 and L22 approached Leith and Edinburgh. L22 caused minor damage to Edinburgh having jettisoned much of its payload in open country near Berwick-Upon-Tweed. L14 however made a sustained attack on both Leith and the Scottish Capital. In Leith nine high-explosive bombs and eleven incendiary bombs were dropped on the town destroying several houses, businesses and warehouses. One man and a baby were killed.
L14 then continued on to Edinburgh were a further 18 high-explosive bombs and six incendiary bombs were dropped killing 11 people and injuring a further 24 others. Four houses, three hotels and a spirits store were severely damaged with Princes Street station and several other building sustaining lighter damage.
The images included are as follows:
i – The memorial pavement stone situated in the centre of Grassmarket in front of the White Hart Inn which was devastated in the 2nd April raids.
ii – The devastated Grassmarket buildings which includes the White Hart Inn.
iii – A close up of the White Hart Inn.
iv – Zeppelin L14
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