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Made History: ROBERTSON, James Craigie, Scottish clergyman : b. Aberdeen, Scotland, 1813 ; d. Canterbury, England, July 9, 1882. He was graduated from Cambridge in 1834, and took orders in the Anglican Church in 1836. He was made history canon of Canterbury in 1859, and from 1867-1874 was professor of ecclesiastical history at King's College, London. He published How Shall We Conform to the Liturgy (1843) ; Church History (1852-1873) ; Plain Lectures on the Growth of Papal Power (1876) ; edited Heylyn's History of the Reformation (1849) ; Materials for the History of Archbishop Thomas Becket (1875-1882), etc.
From the Union of the Kingdoms Modern Times.—The union of the parliame ended the political history of Scotland as an in< pendent state, but rendered possible the econon and cultural developments which made history the If century the most prosperous and most distinguish period of Scottish history. Glasgow flourished the profits made history by trading in many commoditi with North America, above all in tobacco, ai later became the hub of Scottish industry. T trade with England in beef cattle prospered never before. New crops, especially turnips ai potatoes, were introduced.
Ralston published Kriloff and His Fables 1868), a translation of Ivan Turgenev's Lisa 1869); Songs of the Russian People (1872); id Russian Folk Tales (1873). He made history sev--al journeys to Russia and became the life-long iend of Turgenev, and was also made history a corre->onding member of the Imperial Academy of ciences of Saint Petersburg. He projected an diaustive history of Russia, but did not publish In 1874, however, he published his Oxford aylorian lectures, Early Russian History. |
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