The Aberdeen Act was introduced by the earl of Aberdeen, and passed in 1845, to enforce the observance of a convention made with Brazil in 1826 to put down the slave trade. It was repealed in 1869. Research Aberdeen Act
The British Airports Authority plc (BAA) is a public limited company that was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1987 and formed from the former British Airports Authority (founded in 1966). It owns and operates London airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, and Stansted) as well as Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Prestwick, and Glasgow airports. It is responsible for the construction and maintenance of buildings, fire and security services, passenger services, and terminal management. Research British Airports Authority
The Burnett prizes were prizes established by a Mr. Burnett, a merchant of Aberdeen, on his death in 1784. He left a fund from which were to be given every forty years two theological prizes (not less than 1200 pounds and 400 pounds) for the best two essays in favour of the evidence that there is an all-powerful, wise, and good Being, and this independent of all revelation.
The first competition was in 1815, when Dr. Brown, principal of Aberdeen University, gained the first prize, and Dr. John Bird Sumner, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, the second. In 1855 the first prize was adjudged to the Reverend R. A. Thompson, Lincolnshire, and the second prize to the Reverend Dr. John Tulloch, afterwards principal of St Mary's College, St. Andrews. The destination of the fund was later altered by parliament, and from the late 19th century courses of lectures were delivered, the first, on light, being by Professor Gabriel Stokes in 1883. Research Burnett Prizes
The Dick Bequest, was a bequest of over 100,000 pounds sterling left in 1828 by James Dick, a native of Morayshire, and latterly a merchant in London, for the encouragement of education in the parochial schools of the counties of Moray, Banff, and Aberdeen. In order to qualify for getting a share in the revenue of the fund, teachers had to pass a searching examination, and the amount received each year depended on the state of the schools, the subjects taught, etc. The sums distributed yearly thus varied considerably, the average for each teacher being about 30 pounds in 1905. Research Dick Bequest
The Free Church of Scotland is a Presbyterian church organized as a separate body from the Established Church in May, 1843. The Queen Anne Act of 1712, which restored patronage in Scotland, was for long the chronic cause of schism and discontent in the Scottish church, unwelcome clergymen often being appointed to church livings.
In 1834 the General Assembly passed a veto act, which declared that no minister should be intruded into a parishchurch against the will of the people, and that a majority of male heads of families, full members of the church, should be able to bar an obnoxious presentee. This act before long created litigation, and the ecclesiastical and civil powers came into conflict. The struggle was brought to an issue by the judgment of the House of Lords in 1842, affirming a decree of the Court of Session, which required the presbytery of Auchterarder to induct the presentee to Auchterarderparish without regard to the dissent of the parishioners. In May, 1843, the members of the General Assembly had been elected and were convened at Edinburgh, when the Reverend Dr. David Welsh, who had been moderator of the last Assembly, instead of constituting the meeting in the ordinary manner, rose and read a protest, pointing out that the civil courts had undue powers of interference with the Established Church, and concluding by asserting the right of the protesters, in the circumstances, to withdraw to a separate place of meeting for the purpose of taking steps on behalf of themselves and their adherents for separating in an orderly way from the Establishment, but still maintaining the Confession of Faith and Standards of the Church of Scotland as heretofore understood.
After reading this document the moderator and other members of Assembly, together with those adhering to them, withdrew to another place of meeting (the Tanfield Hall, Canonmills), and constituted themselves the Free Church of Scotland. They elected Dr. Chalmers as their moderator, and proceeded with the business before them. Although thus denuded of the temporal benefits of an establishment, they declared themselves to be the true national church of the Reformation, and did not object to the endowment and establishment of religion by the state. In later years, however, a decided majority of the Free Churchclergy gave up the doctrine of the lawfulness of the establishment of the church by the state, and became converts to the 'voluntary principle'. The deed of demission, or resignation of livings, was signed by 474 ministers and professors. A sustentation fund was instituted for the maintenance of the ministers, to be supplied by the voluntary offerings of the people. In the first year after the disruption the sum of 366,719 pounds sterling was contributed for the erection of churches, between 700 and 800 of which had to be provided for congregations which left the Establishment with their ministers. Colleges for the theological training of the ministry were subsequently erected in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, Schools were added to the churches in town and country, and normal schools for the training of teachers were instituted. In 1900 the Free Church joined the United Presbyterian Church (established in 1847 on the voluntary principle), to form the United Free Church of Scotland. A small minority of Free Church ministers and members refused to accept the union and claimed to be the true Free Church of Scotland, a claim which the law decided in their favour, the church property passing in accordance with the decision. The inability of the (new) Free Church to make full use of the churches - and other property thus assigned led to legislative interference
to a commission for allocation of property in 1905. Research Free Church of Scotland
The Angus (Aberdeen-Angus) is a hornless, black, compact, low-set domestic breed of beef cattle. It originated in Scotland and is now found throughout the USA and UK. Research Angus
The Scotch Terrier or Scottish Terrier (originally known as the Aberdeen Terrier, and now affectionately known as the Scottie) is a hardy, persevering breed of dog with immense teeth, for the size of dog, erect ears and a hard coat. The breed has short legs and a long body. They were formerly used for catching vermin and foxhunting in hilly country where hounds couldn't run. Research Scotch Terrier
Alexander Bain was a Scottish writer on mental philosophy and education. He was born in 1818 at Aberdeen in 1818 and died in 1903. He was educated at Marischal College (then a separate university), Aberdeen; was for some years a deputy professor in the university; subsequently held official posts in London; and in 1860 was appointed professor of logic and English in Aberdeen University, a post which he held until his resignation in 1881. His most important works are: The Senses and the Intellect (1855); the Emotions and the Will (1859), together forming a complete exposition of the humanmind; Mental and Moral Science (1868); Logic, Deductive and Inductive (1870); Mind and Body (1873); Education as a Science (1879); James Mill, a Biography (1881); John Stuart Mill, a Criticism with Personal Recollections (1882); besides an English Grammar, English Composition and Rhetoric, an Autobiography, etc. Research Alexander Bain
Alexander Chalmers was a British journalist, editor, and miscellaneous writer. He was born in 1759 at Aberdeen and died in 1834. His father, the founder of the first Aberdeennewspaper, was a printer. About 1777 Alexander Chalmers came to London, was employed as journalist, and edited the British Essayist, from the Tatler to the Observer, published 1803. He also issued an edition of Shakespeare, with notes, in 1809; and the works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, with Johnson's Lives, and additional Lives in 1810. His most extensive work was the General Biographical Dictionary, published in thirty-two volumes between 1812 and 1817. Research Alexander Chalmers
Alexander Cruden was the compiler of the Concordance to the Scriptures. He was born in 1701 at Aberdeen and died in 1770. He took the degree of MA at Marischal College, and in 1722 proceeded to London, where he was employed as tutor. He afterwards opened a bookseller's shop under the Royal Exchange, and in 1735 was appointed bookseller to Queen Caroline. His great work appeared in 1737, under the title of A Complete Concordance of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. In a pecuniary point of view it was not at first successful, and the embarrassments to which it reduced him unsettled his reason and led to his confinement at Bethnal Green. He was again temporarily confined in 1753. Three editions of the Concordance appeared in his lifetime, and he was also the author of A Scripture Dictionary, or Guide to the Holy Scriptures; and The History and Excellency of the Scriptures. Research Alexander Cruden
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