Sentence examples for heriot from inspiring English sources

The first Edinburgh girls' school, the Merchant Maiden Hospital, was opened in 1605, and construction of Heriot's Hospital (now George Heriot's School), a school endowed by the bequest of the goldsmith, moneylender, and philanthropist George Heriot, began in 1628.

Asbestos expert Professor John Cherrie, who works at Heriot Watt-University and at the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Edinburgh, is supporting the investigation.

He had a superb technical training at Leith Academy, a school renowned for its discipline and serious academic purpose, Heriot Watt College before it became a university and the Napier College of Science and Technology before it, too, achieved university status.

Aris later amended its petition to assert that the Heriot fund had lost its "substratum" and was no longer viable.

In the case of dormant entities like the Heriot fund, the Cayman court said that liquidation was justified because "it has become impractical, if not actually impossible, to carry on its investment business in accordance with the reasonable expectations of its participating shareholders, based upon the representations contained in its offering document".

The Cayman Grand Court sided with Aris in its decision issued Jan . 4 2011, and ordered the liquidation of the Heriot fund.

England I am now studying for my PhD at Heriot-Watt.

The UK has four universities in the top 50: Bath (12), Loughborough (23), Heriot-Watt (47) and Brunel (48), all founded in 1966.

Heriot-Watt is a new entry.

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Heriot-Watt University, dating from the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, was one of the first of Britain's new technological universities.