RENTON

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RENTON , a manufacturing town of Dumbartonshire'

Scotland

SCOTLAND
SCOTLAND,
CHURCH
- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish
  kirk
  - KIRK, SIR JOHN (1832- )
  , Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH,
  RICHARD
  WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR
  RICHARD
  (1784–1873)
OF
SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish
  kirk
  - KIRK, SIR JOHN (1832- )
  , Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
OF

. Pop. (19o1) 5067. It is situated on the Leven, 2 in. N.N.W. of

Dumbarton

DUMBARTON

by the North British and Caledonian railways. The leading industry is Turkey red dyeing, and

calico

CALICO

-printing and bleaching are also carried on. A parish church stands on the site of Dalquhurn

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, the birthplace of Tobias Smollett the novelist, to whose memory a Tuscan column was erected in 1774, the inscription for which was revised by Dr Johnson when he visited Bonhill in that year with Boswell. The town was founded in 1782 by Mrs Smollettpreviously Mrs Telferof Bonhill (

sister

SISTER

of Tobias Smollett), who resumed her maiden name when she succeeded to the Smollett estates; it was named after

Cecilia

CECILIA, SAINT

Renton, daughter of John Renton of Blackadder, who had married Mrs Smollett's son, Alexander Telfer.

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