Brief Life History of James
James Farquhar was born about 1732, in New Aberdour, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom as the son of William Farquhar.
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- James Farquhar, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
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1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.
In 1802, John Playfair published the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. His influence was by James Hutton’s knowledge of the earth’s geology.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Aberdeenshire, Caithness, and Glasgow) and northern Irish (Armagh and Antrim): from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Fearchar, from fear ‘man’ + car ‘loving, beloved’, or a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhearchair.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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