• The Archdeacon of Orkney was the head of the Archdeaconry of Orkney, a sub-division of the Diocese of Orkney in Scotland. This archdeacon was one of the...
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  • Archdeacon of Shetland was the head of the Archdeaconry of Shetland, a sub-division of the Diocese of Orkney in Scotland This archdeacon was one of the...
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    Eilean Munde (category Uninhabited islands of Highland (council area))
    Forbes, Edited and Compiled by The Ven. James Brown Craven, D.D., Archdeacon of Orkney. Skeffington & Son, Ltd., Paternoster House, St. Paul’s, E.C.4. (1886)...
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  • The Orkney Antiquarian Society was founded in 1922 by Dr. Hugh Marwick, Archdeacon James Brown Craven, Joseph Storer Clouston and John Mooney, and continued...
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    The Orkney Museum, formerly Tankerness House Museum, is a history museum in Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland. Run by Orkney Islands Council, the museum covers...
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  • Richard Merchiston, 1619-1626 x 1633 Became Bishop of Orkney. Later, Bishop of Ross. Becomes Archdeacon of Aberdeen. Watt, D.E.R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae...
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  • William del Bois, Archdeacon of Lothian 1226-1227: Thomas de Stirling, Archdeacon of Glasgow 1227-1230: Matthew the Scot, Bishop-elect of Dunkeld 1231–1233:...
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  • James Brown Craven (category People associated with Orkney)
    Archdeacon James Brown Craven (1850 – 17 April 1924) was author of the History of the Church in Orkney and several other works on ecclesiastical history...
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  • Irish peer George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney (1666–1737) George Hamilton (MP for Wells) (c. 1697–1775), member of parliament for Wells and for St Johnstown...
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    (1898). The Saint-Clairs of the Isles; being a history of the sea-kings of Orkney and their Scottish successors of the sirname of Sinclair. Shortland Street...
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