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Graham Spiers is a Scottish sports journalist who writes for the Scottish edition of The Times newspaper. He has won Scotland's Sports Journalist of the Year award four times. [1]
Stella is a British comedy-drama filmed in the Rhondda valleys that aired on Sky One from 2012 to 2017. It was created by David Peet along with Ruth Jones, who plays the role of the titular character and appears alongside a cast ensemble which includes Patrick Baladi.
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Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs was born on 15 June 1797. He was the second son of Peter Speirs of Culcreuch, founder owner of a Mill at Fintry and his wife Martha Harriet Graham, daughter of Robert Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore (1735–1797) near Lake of Menteith. His early education was conducted partly at the High School of Edinburgh, and partly ...
His professional career was distinguished by steady but not rapid progress. In 1830, Lord Advocate Jeffrey appointed Speirs an advocate-depute, and soon afterwards Speirs was appointed sheriff of Elgin and Nairn. Subsequently, in 1840, on a vacancy occurring in the metropolitan sheriffdom, he was offered and accepted the office of sheriff of Edinbu...
Preceding the Disruption of 1843, at the time of the Convocation of ministers which preceded the Assembly of 1843, when it was thought right that the laymen attached to the principles then upheld by the majority of the Assembly, and especially the eldership, should come forward and at once strengthen the hands of the ministers, and provide means fo...
In the Disruption of 1843 he is listed as one of the church elders who left the Church of Scotland to join the Free Church of Scotland. Speirs heading up the Sites Committee set up because landlords across the country refused to give sites for the Free Church to build churches and schools. A renewed application to Parliament was made in the spring ...
Speirs had other interests besides the law and the church. In connection, with Prison reformation and discipline, he was an active member of the society formed in 1835 on that subject, which by its efforts materially contributed to the enactment of 1839, by which the jails of Scotland, once described as "nurseries of vice and crime," became placed ...
He lived his final years at Granton House in north Edinburgh. A salt print photograph of him was taken by Hill & Adamson around 1845, in the early years of photography. He died on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1847. and is buried in Grange Cemeteryin south Edinburgh. The grave lies in the centre of the north wall. Ritchie suggest that Speirs's legacy ...
In 1820 he married Catherine Ann Grant (1804-1871) daughter of Francis Grant of Kilgraston (see grave), and left a daughter, Anne Oliphant Speirs (1833 - 1907), who married George Home of Blackadder and inherited Culcreuch Castle, which she sold in 1890, from her uncle. Speirs lived at a very large Georgian town house at 46 Great King Street.
Sources
1. Brown, Thomas (1893). Annals of the disruption with extracts from the narratives of ministers who left the Scottish establishment in 1843 by Thomas Brown. Edinburgh: Macniven & Wallace. pp. 410-411, et passim. 2. Buchanan, Robert (1854). The ten years' conflict : being the history of the disruption of the Church of Scotland. Vol. 2. Glasgow ; Edinburgh ; London ; New York: Blackie and Son. p. 104, et passim. 3. Hanna, William (1849). Memoirs of the life and writings of Thomas Chalmers. Vol...
Graham Spiers is a Scottish sports journalist who writes for the Scottish edition of The Times newspaper. He has won Scotland's Sports Journalist of the Year award four times.
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Dec 17, 2023 · I have asked Graham twice now to either put both free-to-air or both behind a paywall. He is “thinking about it”—a weighty decision balancing the rights of the people who have already paid versus balance and fairness. Graham is just the man for such a moral conundrum!
