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  • ...mber of numerous other public bodies. In total, he was a councillor for 32 years when he retired in [[1999]]. ...he retained until retirement; a Post Office Telecomms engineer (barring 6 years of military service). Bill was first called up to the miliary in [[1940]] a
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  • ...litical career as a [[Lerwick Town Council]]lor was lengthy, stretching 27 years, with the last 9 being as the Senior Baillie. His son, [[William Sievwright
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  • ...e_manse_Seven_years_apos__jail_for_sex_offences_at_manse/ jailed for seven years] for sexual offences against young boys. He was released in 1998.
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  • ...nstituency)|Lerwick Sound]] between [[1974]] and [[1976]]. He was for many years auctioneer at the old Shetland Marts on the South Road (Site now Tesco's Su
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  • ...cy Council and some years off at the fishing. After that, he worked for 22 years for BP at Sullom Voe, first as a jetty operator and ending as a Shift Team
    2 KB (229 words) - 19:46, 14 October 2016
  • ...constituencies in Shetland, with only 9 different representatives over 83 years and only two by-elections.
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  • He received a CIE in the 1917 New Years Honours.
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  • ...e worked at Radio Shetland and was the editor of the Shetland Times for 14 years.
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  • ...'Henderson's Hotel' (now Spiggie Lodge), which he operated for a number of years in partnership with his wife. ...eated by the departure of [[Robert Bruce]], a seat he held for the next 11 years. The final three, from 1960-63, were also as Convener of the County.
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  • ...great grandfather, [[Gilbert Tait]], was a Lerwick Town Councillor for 25 years.
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  • ...death. The other son, [[Charles Dundas|Charles]], was an MP for nearly 50 years before being ennobled as Baron Amesbury. ...th an established fortune thanks to profitable army contracts in the Seven Years War, bought the Earldom of Orkney in 1766 he was less interested in the est
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  • ...Edinburgh, before joining the East India Company in 1838. He served for 12 years, returning to Shetland in 1850 until 1852, before heading back out to India
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  • ...ne|James 'Slim Jim' Irvine]], who had been a councillor in Shetland for 24 years at that point. Standing as a Liberal Democrat in the [[Shetland_Islands_Cou
    7 KB (1,100 words) - 19:47, 14 October 2016
  • ...; being a journal of travels, with narrative of return journey after three years' exploration'', Charles J. Duncan, [[Lerwick]], [[1911]]. [http://www.archi
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  • Shetland Islands Councillors are elected every 4 or 5 years and meet in the [[Lerwick Town Hall]]. The current Chief Executive is Mark
    4 KB (495 words) - 19:48, 14 October 2016
  • ...il]] between [[1919]] to [[1936]], and [[1945]] to [[1960]], a total of 32 years. He also represented [[Whalsay And Skerries (Constituency)|Whalsay And Sker ...d been an honorary Sheriff-Substitute in Lerwick. He had been for about 30 years Vice-Consul at Lerwick for Holland and was honoured by being made a Knight
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  • ...nd in the Napoleonic Wars. A native of Orkney, he also held office for ten years as a member of parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland.
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  • ...He was also the Clerk to the Bressay School Board from 1872 until 1919 (43 years), the Clerk to the Lerwick School Board from 1890 to 1910 and was decorated
    4 KB (588 words) - 18:22, 13 July 2021
  • ...Crae Bruce of Symbister came to the rescue, and married Sheriff Bell a few years later. The family then removed to Falkirk, Robert Bell having been appointe
    5 KB (800 words) - 12:06, 6 July 2021
  • ...s a Scottish official of the British East India Company who served for six years in the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Orkney and She
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