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  • ...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 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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  • ...hich saw him break his back and lose a leg. His obituary in the ''Shetland Times'' notes that "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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  • [[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 (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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  • * ''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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • [[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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • [[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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  • ...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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  • <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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