Word: heriot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordered that almost any year of it might be interchanged with another with no loss of continuity. His miller father and his mother died shortly after his birth in 1756 in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, leaving him to the care of an elder brother. After an undistinguished education at Heriot's Hospital, he was apprenticed at 15 to an Edinburgh goldsmith named Gilliland. Edinburgh was expanding from town to city; there was much building but little art. To while away time when he was not designing little gold frames or trinkets, Henry Raeburn began to paint miniatures. To his gratification...