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Irvine may refer to:
Irvine is a town and former royal burgh on the coast of the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The 2011 Census recorded the town's population at 33,698 inhabitants, making it the largest settlement in North Ayrshire, and 22nd largest settlement in Scotland.
Henry Drummond was an English banker, politician and writer, best known as one of the founders of the Catholic Apostolic or Irvingite Church.
Drum Castle is a castle near Drumoak in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. For centuries it was the seat of the chief of Clan Irvine. The place-name Drum is derived from Gaelic druim, 'ridge'. The site is located approximately 6+1⁄2 miles northeast of Banchory and 3 miles west of Peterculter. The property is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland and is open to the public.
Clan Keith is a Highland and Lowland Scottish clan, whose Chief historically held the hereditary title of Marischal, then Great Marischal, then Earl Marischal of Scotland.
The Adlercreutz family is a Swedish and Finnish noble family.
Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton was a Scottish General and member of parliament (MP) in the British Parliament. He was also the Clan Chief of the Clan Montgomery. Montgomerie fought in the Seven Years' War, where he served with George Washington. He also was the patron of the poet Robert Burns.
James Irvine may refer to:
Clan Irvine is a Scottish clan.
William Irving may refer to:
Robgill Tower is a tower house near Kirkpatrick Fleming on the banks of the river Kirtle. It was one of a number of towers built along the border as protection against incursions by the English.
The Capitulation of Irvine was an early armed conflict of the Wars of Scottish Independence which took place on 7 June 1297. Due to dissension among the Scottish leadership, it resulted in a stand-off.
Friedrich von Löwis of Menar was a Baltic German lieutenant-general of Scottish origin, who served in the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars. His family came from South Scotland to Sweden around 1630. By the time of Friedrich's birth, it had become a well-established noble family settled in Livonia in the Russian Empire.
George Robertson (c.1750–1832) was a Scottish topographical, agricultural and genealogical writer.
The Koskullfamily, also written as Koschkull, is a wealthy aristocratic family of Livonian and German origin, famous for their extensive lands and manors. The family is descended from the first King of Livonia and officially established in Livonia as Koskele in 1302. The family spread to Estonia, Courland and Poland in the 15th century, Sweden and Finland in the 17th century, and Prussia and Russia in the 18th century. Several branches of the family still exist today. The Koskulls are believed to be related to the von der Pahlen family.
Gude Axelsen Giedde (1510-1590) was a Norwegian military officer, Lutheran prelate, and provost in Kville, Bohuslän, then part of Norway.
The Battle of Drumoak, also known as the Battle of Keith's Muir, was a Scottish clan battle that took place at Drumoak, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in 1402. It was fought between the Clan Irvine whose chiefs were seated at Drum Castle and the Clan Keith whose chiefs were the Earls Marischal.
Charles Irving was a Scottish naval surgeon and inventor. In 1770, he introduced a method for distillation of seawater to the Royal Navy, and was awarded the sum of £5,000 for his method in 1772. His apparatus for distilling seawater was used on the second voyage of James Cook and on the 1773 expedition by Constantine John Phipps towards the North Pole, in which Irving participated both as surgeon and as scientific collaborator of Phipps. He was later involved in British colonial enterprises in Central America that included an attempt to establish a crown colony on the Mosquito Shore, but his plans were thwarted by Spanish intervention.
The von Linné family and Linnaeus family was the family of the renowned botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, physician and formalizer of the binomial nomenclature, Carl Linnaeus, and a Swedish noble family, ennobled on 20 April 1757 by the Swedish King Adolf Frederick, introduced at the House of Nobility in 1776.
Murray is a Swedish family, which descends from the old Scottish noble family Murray, of which a branch emigrated to East Prussia in the middle of the 17th century. From there, Andreas Murray came to Sweden in 1735 as second pastor of the German church in Stockholm. In 1738 he became first pastor of the same church and in 1752, at the coronation of king Adolf Frederick, he became doctor of theology. Of his children, two sons made themselves known as doctors, Johan Andreas Murray and Adolph Murray; a third, Gustaf Murray became a bishop and in 1810 was ennobled while retaining his surname Murray.
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- ↑ Irving nr 308 Gustaf Elgenstierna, Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor. 1925-36. (in Swedish)
