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Allan . ?1686–1758, Scottish poet, editor, and bookseller, noted particularly for his pastoral comedy The Gentle Shepherd (1725): first person to introduce the circulating library in Scotland
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his son, Allan 1713–84, Scottish portrait painter
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See Dalhousie
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Gordon. born 1963, British chef and restaurateur; achieved a third Michelin star (2001)
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Sir William . 1852–1916, Scottish chemist. He discovered argon (1894) with Rayleigh, isolated helium (1895), and identified neon, krypton, and xenon: Nobel prize for chemistry 1904
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William Ramsay, who lives in the area in the west of the city, said he believed the man with the weapons had entered the stairwell of his building.
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Revenue growth of 8.7% in Ramsay’s Australian private-hospital business was the stand out in the result, analyst Saul Hadassin says.
Will Still, Eric Ramsay and Wilfried Nancy were all sacked pretty quickly.
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Ramsay rises 11% to A$42.21, putting the stock on course for its best close since October 2024.
Ramsay’s 1H revenue of A$9.38 billion beat Jefferies’s forecast by 3.1%, while normalized net profit of A$172 million was some 15% ahead of consensus expectations.
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