An attempt to see how closely the various people I've written articles on (as of November 2010) are linked.
- Lorenzo De Medici Sweat, Sir Sackville Crowe, 1st Baronet, George Heriot, Henry Morgenthau, Sr., Charles Kennedy (economist), Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, James Oberg, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Benedict Arnold (congressman), Mike Pringle, Philip of Poitou, Pope Adrian V, , Henri Blowitz, Lancelot Blackburne, Fleury Mesplet, Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia, Charles Ewart, Francis Storrs, John Yate Robinson, Charles Howard (equerry), John Weston, Georgi Ivanov (mayor), Alexander Devine, , Sudesh Mahto, , , Robert Alexander Hillingford, Jacob van Schuppen, Judocus de Vos, , , John Cradock, 1st Baron Howden, Robert Hodgson (diplomat), Andrew Gray (physicist), Iya Abubakar, Keith L. Ware, Jake Saunders (writer), Thierry de Gruben, Victor Clarence Secombe, Berthold von Deimling, Laleshwar Singh, Roy Blackbeard, Massey Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough, Adam Henry Robson, John Balchen, Dave Johnston (police officer), Robert Taylor (British Army officer), George Milner, , Christian Blanc, Keith O'Nions, Alexander Leslie-Melville, Lord Balgonie, James Trevenen, , , Peter Bover, Louis Francis Salzman, Neville Samarakoon, ,, , Masataka Ogawa, Andrew Gray (anthropologist), Charles L. Thomas, , , , Stuart Peter Rolt, Scott Gration, Eugène Trutat, Sir Howard Warburton Elphinstone, 3rd Baronet, David Robert Lyall, Stanley Boulter, Sir William Paget Bowman, 2nd Baronet, Sir William Magnay, 2nd Baronet, James Edward O'Conor, Félix Wielemans, Count Alexander Benckendorff, George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning, Henry Whitehead Moss, Henry Barnes, 2nd Baron Gorell, Sir Pyers Charles Mostyn, 10th Baronet, Anthony Mitchell (bishop), Sir Leslie Edmund Percy Riggs Falkiner, 7th Baronet, Manuel Achille Baudouin, Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 2nd Baron Masham, Sir Robert Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 11th Baronet, John Fryer (British Army officer), Henry Coey Kane, Sir Thomas C. C. Western, 3rd Baronet, Thomas Holbein Hendley, Francis John Savile Foljambe, Nicholas Gosselin, Martin Unrein, Benjamin Franklin (surgeon), Cromer Ashburnham, Mowbray Thomson, Jeanne Hersch, , Andrew Gray (senator), Andrew Gray (surveyor), , , , ,,, , ,, Edward Thompson Dickson, Anthony Deane-Drummond, Yasumi Kobayashi, Frederick Handel Booth, Frederick Francis Liddell, George Heriot (died 1610), George Heriot (artist), Weston Jarvis, John Anderson Strong, Ernest Brooks (photographer), John Heriot (journalist), Chhatra Man Singh Gurung, Frederick Stovin, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Alfred Codrington, Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside, , Ana María Torres, Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall, Tidjane Thiam, , Alexander Boswell (British Army officer), Richard Stovin, Richard C. Friedman, Ramachandra Naidu Galla, , Travers Clarke, Robert Cotton Money, George Findlater, John Keir
Family
edit- Stephan Körner & Edith Körner - parents of Thomas William Körner
- Ronald Lindsay - married daughter of Colgate Hoyt
- William Forbes-Sempill, 17th Lord Sempill - father of Arthur Forbes-Sempill & John Forbes-Sempill, 18th Lord Sempill (father of Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet) ... & father-in-law of Duncan Vernon Pirie, who was brother-in-law to Douglas Dawson (brother of Vesey John Dawson), whose daughter married Vernon Erskine-Crum.
Military
edit- Vernon Erskine-Crum (above), Timothy Creasey, Richard Lawson (British Army officer), Robert Richardson (British Army officer), David House - all GOC NI
- Robert Scott-Kerr & Richard Hutton Davies both commanded brigades in 2 Div in 1914; Davies took command of 20 Div from Edward Hamilton (British Army officer)
- Alfred Cavendish, George Macdonogh & George Henry Fowke - on BEF staff in 1914 - Fowke succeeded as BEF engineer-in-chief by Spring R. Rice
- Temple Hardy, John William Spranger - commanders at same battle - also Hardy succeeded Edward Stirling Dickson as ship commander; Dickson captured Goree, which Charles MacCarthy (governor) was made governor of
- Reginald Pinney, commanded 33rd and 35th Div before Herman Landon, who commanded 9th Div, which contained 8th Black Watch, commanded by John Forbes-Sempill, 18th Lord Sempill (above).
- Lord Charles Manners, James Durand (British Army officer), Hunt Walsh - cols of 56th Foot
- Frederick McCracken succeeded in brigade command by Wilkinson Bird
Politics
edit- Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar (MP 1899-1900,06-10), Charles Henry Lyell (MP 1904-1917), Edward Parrott (MP 1917-1918) - successive Edinburgh South MPs; Dewar defeated Andrew Gilbert Wauchope at a by-election
- William Grant (MP 1790–1812), succeeded as MP for Banff by Sir Robert Abercromby, 5th Baronet (MP 1812-18) (father-in-law of William Forbes-Sempill, 17th Lord Sempill (above)); John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore (MP 1801) contemporaneous
- Contemporaneous 1922-1970: A. P. Herbert (MP 1935-50) Harry Pursey (MP 1945-70), Ian Harvey (politician) (MP 1950-58), William Kingsmill (MP 1945-51), Richard Adams (politician) (MP 1945-55), Dan Chater (MP 1929-31,35-50), Henry Adam Procter (MP 1931-45), George Davies (politician) (MP 1923-45), Frank Gray (politician) (MP 1922-24)
- Contemporaneous 1831-1880: Edward Ellice (Scottish politician) (MP 1836-80), George Dundas (MP 1847-59), David Dundas (solicitor) (MP 1840-52,61-67), Charles Cowan (MP 1847-59), Charles Lennox Cumming Bruce (MP 1831-37,40-68), Henry Home-Drummond (MP 1821-31, 1840-52), George Duncan (politician) (MP 1841-57), John Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair (MP 1841-56), George Skene Duff (MP 1845-57)
Misc
edit- Frances Kirwan, Victor Flynn, Dan Segal - contemporaneous professors at Oxford
- Kevin Buzzard, doctoral advisor to brother of Nina Snaith