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3 unusual facts about George Glas


George Glas

A few days later he was seized by the Spaniards, taken to Teneriffe and imprisoned at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

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He named his settlement Port Hillsborough, after Wills Hill, earl of Hillsborough (afterwards marquis of Downshire), president of the Board of Trade and Plantations (1763–1765).

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The son of John Glas, the divine, Glas was born at Dundee in 1725, and is said to have been brought up as a surgeon.



see also

George Glas Sandeman Carey

Major General George Glas Sandeman Carey (1867-1948), an officer in the British Army who, during World War I, prevented a breakthrough of the German forces to Amiens in the Second Battle of the Somme in 1918 by assembling a scratch force of British and American troops.