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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: People from Midlothian, Fish, Horatio Brown, Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, Lord Walter Kerr, George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, John Clerk of Eldin, Tom Walkinshaw, George Meikle Kemp, Eddie Thomson, David Henry, Charles W. Nibley, Robert Wauchope, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, Dan Gordon, Colin Robert Ballard, James Anderson of Hermiston, Annette Crosbie, Andrew Brown, William Robertson, Archibald Thorburn, John Boak, Frederick Willoughby, John Lawson Johnston, Anthony Stodart, Baron Stodart of Leaston, Mike Veitch, Frederick Thomas, John Clerk of Penicuik, David Bowman, Bobby Kirk, Saint Kea, Thomas Meik, David Pryde, David Johnstone Pryde, David Ewart, John Kay, Richard Maitland, 4th Earl of Lauderdale, Edward Little, Jim Blyth, Harry Kinghorn, Abbot of Newbattle, Jimmy Ross, Graeme Mercer Adam, Charles Normand, Charlie Aitken, Bob Reid, Eric Stevenson, Sir John Clerk, 5th Baronet, John Laing, Jackie Neilson. Excerpt: Horatio Robert Forbes Brown (16 February 1854 - 19 August 1926) was a Scottish historian who specialized in the history of Venice and Italy. Born in Nice, he grew up in Midlothian, Scotland, was educated in England at Clifton and Oxford, and spent most of his life in Venice, publishing several books about the city. He also wrote for the Cambridge Modern History, was the biographer of John Addington Symonds, and was a poet and alpinist. Born at Nice (then part of the kingdom of Sardinia) on 16 February 1854, Brown was the son of Hugh Horatio Brown, an advocate, of New Hall House, Carlops, who was a Deputy Lieutenant for Midlothian, and of Gulielmina Forbes, the sixth daughter of Colonel Ranaldson MacDonnell of Glengarry and Clanranald (1773-1828). The marriage was in 1853, and his mother was a good deal younger than his father, who ...
