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  bioDates:
    - end: 1782
      lang: eng
      start: 1706
      text: c.1706-1782
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      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Provenance Information
      searchTerm: 900
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  external:
    - auth: StAbUL
      country: GB
      date: 20140520
      id: 900
  foundIn:
    - LOC
    - DNB
    - Fasti 227
  generalNote:
    - lang: eng
      text: "Church of Scotland minister. Educated King's College, Aberdeen, M.A. 1725. Elected session clerk and precentor of Dornoch in Sutherland 1730. Licensed as a preacher Feb 1734, ordained as minister of Reay, Caithness Sept 1734. Petitioned the Court of Session to force the heritors of his parish to provide a school, 1773. Provided translation of \"Orcades\" for Charles Cordiner's Antiquities and Scenery of Northern Scotland, 1780 and an account of Strathnaver and Sutherland for Thomas Pennant's A Tour of Scotland. Died Reay, 1782.This book was presented to Alexander Pope, minister, by Alexander Pope, poet, his namesake. The minister Pope rode from Caithness to Twickenham on a pony in summer 1732 to visit the poet Pope. He was also presented with the poet's translation of Homer's Odyssey and a snuff-box."
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    - part:
        - entry: Pope
        - firstname: Alexander
        - addition: 1706-82
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    - part:
        - entry: Pope
        - firstname: Alexander
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meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2015-12-14T12:00:00Z
  status: n