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Peter Woodward (born 24 January 1956) is an English actor, screenwriter and stuntman. He is best known for his role as Galen in the Babylon 5 spin-offs Babylon 5: A Call to Arms , Crusade and Babylon 5: The Lost Tales .
St Peter, Sandwick Sandwick: 1670 1960s Church of Scotland: Current building 1836–1837. Scottish Redundant Churches Trust 1998 [32] Sandwick United Free Church Sandwick: 1836 2008 Church of Scotland: Joined CoS in 1929. Sold 2008, along with Birsay & Harray churches [12] St Lawrence's, Burray South Ronaldsay Roofless ruin [33] St Columba's ...
Edward Woodward - Dominic Angelo; Peter Woodward - Harry Angelo; Sylvia Syms - Alice Angelo; Isla Blair - Peg Wallington; Anthony Valentine - Lord Travers; Rudolph Walker - Somers; Julian Glover - Sir Robert Willoughby
The composer Peter Maxwell Davies was among a group which founded the annual St Magnus International Festival which is centred on Kirkwall each midsummer. [32] Notable music acts such as the Wrigley Sisters and Bryttania formed in Kirkwall. Orkney Theatre, a 384-seat venue, was opened in 2014 next to Kirkwall Grammar School in The Meadows.
Thorulf of Orkney: Sent as bishop by Archbishop Adalbert of Hamburg. fl. 1043–1072 John (I) Appointee of the Archbishop of Bremen. Perhaps the same as Johannes Scotus, bishop of Glasgow. fl. 1043–1072 Adalbert: Sent as bishop to Iceland, Greenland and Orkney, by Adalbert, Archbishop of Hamburg. fl. 1073 Radulf: fl. 1100–1108 Roger: 1109 ...
Orkney (/ ˈ ɔːr k n i /), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago off the north coast of mainland Scotland.The plural name the Orkneys is also sometimes used. Part of the Northern Isles along with Shetland, Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) north of Caithness and has about 70 islands, of which 20 are inhabited.
Oliver Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney [a] (born 27 February 1938) is the current earl of Orkney, and the son of Frederick Oliver St John whose parents were Sir Frederic Robert and Lady St. John (née Isabella Annie FitzMaurice). [2] [3] He is a retired Canadian political scientist and Scottish peer.
In 1564 Lord Robert Stewart, natural son of James V of Scotland, who had visited Kirkwall twenty-four years before, was made sheriff of Orkney and Shetland, and received possession of the estates of the udallers; in 1581 he was created earl of Orkney by James VI, the charter being ratified ten years later to his son Patrick, but after Patrick's ...