Dewar
Americannoun
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Donald. 1937–2000, Scottish Labour politician; secretary of state for Scotland (1997–99); first minister of Scotland (1999–2000)
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Sir James. 1842–1923, Scottish chemist and physicist. He worked on the liquefaction of gases and the properties of matter at low temperature, invented the vacuum flask, and (with Sir Frederick Abel) was the first to prepare cordite
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Yet away from the mainstream, Ceirion Dewar, who is a bishop in the small, more conservative, traditionalist Confessing Anglican Church, insists he will not be "lectured to" by these clergy.
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Paula Dewar and her family have, for years, covered their home and outside street with hordes of ghouls, ghosts and goblins.
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At Glasgow University, where he studied law, he became life-long friends with two future Labour stars - John Smith and Donald Dewar.
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Gordon Dewar, chief executive of Edinburgh Airport, said it would allow passengers to move through security more easily than they currently do.
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The tracks were first spotted by Gary Johnson, a worker at Dewars Farm Quarry, while he was driving a digger.
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