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Lista de personatges escoceses
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Summer and Indoor Sports
Together with brewer George SLEEMAN, Thomas GOLDIE, a businessman, politician, and sportsman, used baseball to win recognition for Guelph, Ont., and raise its prestige. This team sport allowed residents from different backgrounds to meet:
“During the heyday in the 1870s of Guelph’s Maple Leaf Base Ball Club, [Goldie] was its secretary. In 1869 it had won the Canadian championship and in 1874 it won the United States–Canada championship in Watertown, N.Y. Goldie’s brother John was one of the team’s star players during the early years. Thomas and the club’s president, George , a prominent brewer and future mayor of Guelph, were eager to capitalize on the popularity of the game to boost the image of the city. Their interest in associating sport with civic promotion was typical, according to sports historian William Humber, of an era ‘when leagues meant little, and the size of a town meant less than
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List of Scots
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This is a list of notable people from Scotland.
Actors
[edit]Main article: List of Scottish actors
Architects and master masons
[edit]- James Adam (1732–1794), son of William Adam
- John Adam (1721–1792), eldest son of William Adam
- Robert Adam (1728–1792), architect, son of William Adam
- William Adam (1689–1748), father of James, John and Robert; architect and mason
- James Alison (1862–1932), architect responsible for the appearance of late Victorian Hawick
- John Macvicar Anderson (1835–1915)
- Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921)
- George Ashdown Audsley (1838–1925), architect, artist, illustrator, writer, and pipe organ designer
- William James Audsley (1833–1907)
- Ormrod Maxwell Ayrton (1874–1960), FRIBA
- John Baird (1798–1859), influential figure in the development of Glasgow Georgian and Victorian Archi