Spencer-Nairn

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Spencer-Nairn is a British double-barrelled surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Lt-Colonel Sir Douglas Leslie Spencer Spencer-Nairn, 2nd Baronet was a Unionist politician in Scotland.

Tara Spencer-Nairn Canadian actress

Tara Spencer-Nairn is a Canadian actress best known for her work on the television series Corner Gas.

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Nairn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

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Humphrey Atkins British politician

Humphrey Edward Gregory Atkins, Baron Colnbrook, was a British politician and a member of the Conservative Party. He served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1979 to 1982.

Nairn County F.C. Association football club

Nairn County Football Club is a Scottish senior football club based in the town of Nairn, Highland. Nicknamed the Wee County, they were founded in 1914 and play at Station Park. They have played in the Highland Football League since 1919, winning their only league title in the 1975–76 season. As a full member of the Scottish Football Association, they qualify automatically to play in the Scottish Cup.

Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy Scottish politician

Gordon Thomas Calthrop Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy, MC, PC, DL was a Scottish Conservative & Unionist politician.

Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (UK Parliament constituency) Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 2005 onwards

Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey is a constituency of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. As with all seats since 1955 it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Ian Douglas Nairn was a British architectural critic who coined the word ‘Subtopia’ to indicate drab suburbs that look identical through unimaginative town-planning. He published two strongly personalised critiques of London and Paris, and collaborated with Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, who considered his reports to be too subjective, but acknowledged him as the better writer.

Nairn Falls Provincial Park Canadian park

Nairn Falls Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada located on the Green River adjacent to British Columbia Highway 99 and the Canadian National Railway line just south of Pemberton and less than twenty minutes north of the resort town of Whistler. The 170 hectare park was established in 1966, shortly after the highway's opening, to protect and enhance visitor access to Nairn Falls, a double waterfall connected by a small canyon which throttles the flow of the Green River just before its accession to the lowlands of the Pemberton Valley and its confluence with the Lillooet River just above that river's estuary into Lillooet Lake.

Spenser is an alternative spelling of the British surname Spencer. It may refer to:

Spencer is a surname, representing the court title dispenser, or steward. An early example is Robert d'Abbetot, who is listed as Robert le Dispenser, a tenant-in-chief of several counties, in the Domesday Book of 1086. In early times the surname was usually written as le Despenser, Dispenser or Despencer—notably in works such as the Domesday Book and the Scottish Ragman Rolls of 1291 and 1296, but gradually lost both the "le" article and the unstressed first syllable of the longer surname to become Spencer.

There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Nairn family, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

Nairn may refer to:

Geddes may refer to:

Clan Ged

Clan Ged is a Scottish clan. The clan does not currently have a chief recognised by the Lord Lyon King of Arms and is considered an armigerous clan. Without a recognised chief the clan has no standing under Scots Law. In Scotland, the surname Ged and Geddes may be derived from the place-name Geddes in Nairn. Another possibility is that it is derived from the Old English gedda, a nickname meaning pike.

Spencer Smith may refer to:

Spencer-Churchill is a British double-barrelled surname associated with the Marlborough dukedom. Notable people with the surname include: