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503: 49: 41: 346: 268:. One of his thematic elements was virtue, which naturally tied to his theological roots. He also conducted critiques of others' poetry based upon how their attitudes deviated from virtue and a common theme of under-recognition of women, as in the scalding criticism of the poet 33: 659: 580: 903: 177:, the oldest university in Scotland. The Rector chairs meetings of the University Court, the governing body of the University of St Andrews. Neaves was a regular author of poetry and essays to 310:
This quote became so famous in that early era that the authorship of the quotation became a matter of public dispute. Although Bartlett and Darwin clearly attributed the quotation to Neaves,
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Charles Neaves, "Carew and Herrick," in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. CCLXXXIV, June 1839, pp. 782–94. Reprinted in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 13
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thrice yearly and Lord Neaves (although elderly and almost without hearing capability by the 1875) acquired a reputation in Glasgow as a man of justice and evenness.
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solicitor and clerk of the Justiciary Court in Edinburgh, and his first wife. His father later married Mary Anne Wilson (1792-1887), sister of
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Lord Neaves may have also been an early thinker on the issue of women's rights with the following quote, that would have bordered on
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in Edinburgh with his second wife, Elisabeth MacDonald (1811-1888). His first wife, Mary Anne, is buried in a south section of
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at age 22. He married Eliza Macdonald in 1835. They lived (c. 1833) in a large Georgian townhouse at 47 Queen Street in
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Bannatyne Club papers with register of selected papers relating to Neaves and contemporaries
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Not only did Neaves produce poetry but he was a prolific critic, often in venues such as
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As a judge of the Court of Session, Neaves was familiar with one of his predecessors,
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Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
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In another instance he elaborates on Monboddo's writings again in
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Charles Neaves had acknowledged skills as a composer of verse.
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on 14 October 1800, the son of Charles Neaves (1777-1868), a
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argued that he had made this statement three years earlier.
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John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
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Pouter, tumbler and fantail are from the same source;
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Neaves was known as one of the early analysts of the
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Lord Neaves' townhouse at 47 Queen Street, Edinburgh
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People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh
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Reference to marriage contract with Eliza MacDonald
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Mitchell Library, Glasgow, Scotland, Accession 4BAI
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Charles Neaves



FRSE
Solicitor General
Court of Session
Rector of the University of St Andrews
history of evolution
evolution
women's rights
Edinburgh
Forfar
John
James Wilson
High School
Edinburgh University
Faculty of Advocates
Edinburgh's New Town
Advocate Depute
Sheriff of Orkney and Shetland
Solicitor General for Scotland
Robert Handyside, Lord Handyside
Lord of Justiciary
Glasgow
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Heriot-Watt Institution
Rector at the University of St Andrews
Blackwood's Magazine
Warriston Cemetery

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