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• William McDougall
  ...X0&pg=4&WINID=1471355332825#NNaAyJAKtPwAAAFWk5Akxw/32653 Photo supplied by Shetland Museum and Archives].]] ...w.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2009/06/05/people-power contribution to the Shetland Times] explains more about William's background.
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• William Hay
  ...was a trader, farmer and [[Lerwick Town Council]]lor. He was married three times and fathered 16 children across the first two. His 12th and 15th children, He was married to [http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I6260&tree=ID1 Margaret Ogilvy], daughter of [[Charl
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• William Anderson (i)
  ...r between [[1937]] and [[1952]]. According to his obituary in the Shetland Times, he was an active member of the Kirk. *[http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I140826&tree=ID1 Bayanne genealogy page]
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• William Adie
  ...time, herring emerged as the primary fish - "King Herring" as the Shetland Times named it. *[http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I9136&tree=ID1 Bayanne genealogy page]
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• Vaila Wishart
  ...tland Islands Council]]lor, representing [[Shetland Central (Constituency)|Shetland Central]] since 2012. ...ournalist. She worked at Radio Shetland and was the editor of the Shetland Times for 14 years.
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• Ross Smith
  ...[[Lerwick Town Council]]lor. Smith also had worked as a reporter for the ''Shetland Advertiser''. ...itically moved from Liberal to Conservatism in his older age. The Shetland Times described this transition as "when his health began to fail and he lost som
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• Robert Sinclair
  ...important notes on Shetland folklore and folk-life, which appear in ''The Shetland Folk Book'', 9, 1995. With [[Arthur Laurenson]] and other Lerwegians with a ...Lowrie at da Mill, or Lowrie's grienin wife', which is published in ''The Shetland Folk Book'', 8, 1988.
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• Robert Ollason
  ...s Provost of the [[Lerwick Town Council]].<br>Image kindly supplied by the Shetland Islands Council]] ...cross from [[John Rae]]'s jewellers), in later life he was a member of the Shetland Health Board where he played an important role in getting the New Gilbert B
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• Robert Adair
  [[Image:Radair.JPG|right|thumb|Robert Adair as he appeared in the Shetland Times, [[1958]].]] ...ick Breiwick seat at the [[Shetland Islands Council Election May 1990|1990 Shetland Islands Council election]].
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• Mitchell Williamson
  ...=14&WINID=1471356507170#NNaAyJAKtPwAAAFWk5Akxw/67806 Photo supplied by the Shetland Museum and Archives].]] ''This profile comes from the Shetland Times''
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• Mark Burgess
  ...tland Islands Council]]lor, representing [[Shetland Central (Constituency)|Shetland Central]] since 2012. ...photographer for the Shetland Times newspaper, as well as a teacher at the Shetland College and a self-employed web designer.
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• Magnus Shearer (i)
  ...s Provost of the [[Lerwick Town Council]].<br>Image kindly supplied by the Shetland Islands Council]] [[File:Magnus Shearer 2.png|right|thumb|Magnus Shearer profiled in the Shetland News in 1937.]]
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• Magnus Flaws (ii)
  ...Flaws''' (b. 28 June [[1947]], Wick, Caithness) is a manager and former [[Shetland Islands Councillor]] for [[Dunrossness South (Constituency)|Dunrossness Sou ...unty Council]]lor [[Magnus Flaws (i)|Magnus Robert Flaws]] (3rd cousin two times removed).
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• Magnus Flaws (i)
  ...s Councillor]] [[Magnus Flaws (ii)|Magnus Laurence Flaws]] (3rd cousin two times removed). *[http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I184477&amp;tree=ID1 Bayanne genealogy page]
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• Leslie Eunson
  ...thumb|175px|Leslie Eunson, by Malcolm Younger (from his ''[[Shetland Times|Times]]'' obituary.)]] ...Houl, [[Fair Isle]], d. 19 March [[2000]]) was an insurance agent and a [[Shetland Islands Council]]lor, representing [[Lerwick Breiwick (Constituency)|Lerwic
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• Lerwick Town Council
  The establishment of the Shetland Times newspaper aided sharing the results of the elections, as the figures were p
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• Kenneth Thomson
  ...rtest council tenure in the history of any modern political institution in Shetland, at 4 days. ...with the Anderson Educational Institute as a relief teacher. The Shetland Times article on the issue was headlined: "COUNCILLOR FOR FIVE MINUTES".
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• Joseph Leask
  ...50]], then returned from [[1862]] until [[1865]]. When it was decided that Shetland required municipal buildings in order to conduct official business, a Limit ...ed an important part in the great herring fishery that had just arrived in Shetland, by assisting fishermen to buy the new large boats, and by providing accomm
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• Jonathan Wills
  ...hetland, and editor of the Shetland Times, before he pioneered the e-media Shetland News. He has also held a number of public posts and has written books for c ...nted in Alaska the tanker surveillance scheme they had helped to set up in Shetland ten years earlier.
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• John Tait
  ...en, where he continued operating a grocers until 1878, when he returned to Shetland. Upon returning to Shetland he returned to Hay and Co as a manager, and eventually became a partner, wh
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• John Robertson (i)
  ...ure in Shetland, with his obituary taking up three columns in the Shetland Times. ...l Board, a director of the Lerwick Town Hall Company and a director of the Shetland Fishermen's Widows' Relief Fund.
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• John Graham
  ...John compiled the ''Shetland Dictionary'' and is one of the key figures in Shetland culture in the latter half of the 20th century. ...he retired in [[1982]]. He subsequently served as member for Sound on the Shetland Islands Council.
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• John Eunson
  ...hich saw him break his back and lose a leg. His obituary in the ''Shetland Times'' notes that &quot;Jon made light of his physical disabilities and few real *[http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I353125&tree=ID1 Bayanne genealogy page]
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• James Daniel
  [[Image:Jdaniel.JPG|right|thumb|James Daniel as he appeared in the Shetland Times, [[1958]].]] [[Category:Incomers to Shetland]]
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• James Anderson (ii)
  ...James Anderson (i)|his father]], who was also a councillor, he returned to Shetland to manage the family farm in Aithness. *[http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I68570&tree=ID1 Bayanne genealogy page]
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• Ian Holbourn
  * ''Wind and Wave: poems,'' [[Shetland Times]], 1967 Shetland Museum has a photo of Ham, Foula with Ian Holbourn's yacht lying at anchor
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• Henry Henderson
  ...the harm caused by alcohol. He also provided local updates to the Shetland Times of the happenings in Burra. *[http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I56843&tree=ID1 Bayanne genealogy page]
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• Gulberwick (Constituency)
  ...1974]], when the County Council merged with the Town Council to form the [[Shetland Islands Council]]. Older editions of [[The Shetland Times]] would report Gulberwick as 'Lerwick Landward', and Gulberwick has also be
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• Francis Pottinger
  ...atic Federation]]. He returned to Lerwick, to work again at [[The Shetland Times]], and after a serious illness worked for his relative [[John W. Robertson] *[http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I129724&tree=ID1 Bayanne genealogy page]
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• Francis Halcrow
  ...July [[1916]], Lerwick) was a [[Lerwick Town Council]]lor. The [[Shetland Times]] often recorded his middle name as 'Hardie'. *[http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I89646&tree=ID1 Bayanne genealogy page]
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• Christopher Sandison
  ...elting]], d. 28 April [[1883]], [[Lerwick]]) was an editor of the Shetland Times and briefly a [[Lerwick Town Council]]lor between [[1874]] and [[1876]]. He was the grandson of famous Shetland diarist [https://shop.shetlandtimes.co.uk/products/christopher-sandison-of-
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• Charlotte Nicol
  [[Image:Cnic.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Mrs Nicol's obituary in the [[Shetland Times]].]] ...t woman to ever be elected onto the highest level of Local Government in [[Shetland]], representing the [[Lerwick Town Council]] between [[1933]] and [[1937]].
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• Charles Sandison (ii)
  ...on the sixareen outlines the development of the Shetland boat from Viking times, through the import of Norwegian built boats and the development of local v *[http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I18344&tree=ID1 Bayanne genealogy page]
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• Charles Duncan
  ...st Donald Stephen moving to Shetland in [[1872]] and founding The Shetland Times. [http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I10511&tree=ID1 Bayanne genealogy page]
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• Cathcart Wason
  ...he land was first taken up by John Hall, but had changed ownership several times before Wason bought it, including 1,250 acres (510 ha) of freehold land, in ...uencies (South Ayrshire and Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire) at various times between 1885 and 1918.
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• Arthur Hay
  ...ring his tenure at the family firm, it was one of the largest employers in Shetland & was the sole largest shipowner. ...he Lordship of Zetland, he engaged with tenants on his lands. The Shetland Times paints him as being on the side of the poor, saying "Not a few of the tenan
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• Alexander Sandison
  ...ness in the Napier Commission and his testimony can be read [http://napier-shetland.blogspot.com/2010/09/baltasound-unst-16-july-1883-alexander_23.html here]. His obituary in the Shetland Times was penned by [[Jessie Saxby]].
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• Alexander Bennet
  [[Image:Abennet.JPG|right|thumb|Sandy Bennet as he appeared in the Shetland Times in 1958.]] ...6IkltYWdlIEl0ZW0ifX0&pg=2&WINID=1469004663699#IAdJCzuiOv8AAAFWAlLqCQ/46334 Shetland Museum and Archives.] ]]
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• Adam Halcrow (i)
  ...12&WINID=1471354522533#NNaAyJAKtPwAAAFWk5Akxw/133651 Photo supplied by the Shetland Museum and Archives] ]] ...and later Freetown. He retired from the sea in [[1930]] and returned to [[Shetland]].
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• Shetland
  <center>[[Image:Shetland From Ward Of Bressay.JPG|820px]]</center> <center>[[Shetland]] as seen from the [[Ward of Bressay]]</center><br/>
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• Bressay
  ...ssay Sound]], on the west side of which lies [[Lerwick]], the capital of [[Shetland]]. ...e transmitter antenna for the TV and public broadcast radio services for [[Shetland]], as well as mobile phone, and other communication systems. Another high p
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• Fair Isle
  ...K, situated about 25 miles from [[Sumburgh Head]], at the far south of the Shetland Mainland. ...constant for several decades. Politically, Fair Isle is part of the South Shetland council ward.
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• Foula
  ...053.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Da Kame]] from the sea.&lt;br&gt;Picture from [[Shetland Museum and Archives]].]] ...''(Old Norse :Fuglaey = Birds Island )'' is the most westerly island in [[Shetland]]. It is approximately 3.5 miles long, north to south, and 2.5 miles wide,
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• Noss
  '''Noss''' is a small and now uninhabited island within the [[Seas around Shetland|North Sea]] lying east of [[Bressay]] from which it is separated by the nar In historical times the major settlement was at ''Hametoun'', the place which is today known as
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