Researching Robert Somerville
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2493 people with the Somerville surname? In that year Somerville was ranked number 1564 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Robert means "bright fame" and is of English origin.
Records of Robert Somerville on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Robert Somerville and the Somerville Family History
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Some Famous People called Robert Somerville
Robert Somerville
Robert Eugene Somerville (born 1940 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was until his retirement the Ada Byron Bampton Tremaine Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Columbia University, New York. Since July 1, 2020, he has been the Tremaine Professor Emeritus of Religion. He has taught at Columbia since 1969, except for a year at the University of Pennsylvania (1976–1977).
Somerville did his doctoral work under Stephan Kuttner at Yale University. He has published widely on the high medieval history of the papacy and of canon law. He is internationally recognized as an authority on medieval church councils. With the publication of his 2011 book Pope Urban II's Council of Piacenza, he has published completely all the sources relating to the councils of Pope Urban II.
Somerville is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and of the Commission internationale de diplomatique. He is a corresponding member of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich and of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has received numerous awards, including two John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships, in 1974 and 1987.
In 2012, the Catholic University of America Press published a Festschrift in his honor, Canon Law, Religion, and Politics: "Liber Amicorum" Robert Somerville, edited by his former students, Anders Winroth, and Peter Landau.
He currently lives on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York. His son, Gregory Somerville, graduated in 2013 from Columbia College with a Bachelor of Arts in music.
Source: Robert Somerville, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaRobert Brown Somerville
Robert Brown Somerville (1812 – 1904) was a Scottish-born merchant and political figure in Quebec. He represented Huntingdon in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1854 to 1866.
He was born in Athelstaneford, son of Andrew Somerville, a landowner in East Lothian, and was educated in Haddington. Somerville came to Lower Canada in 1833 and settled at Athelstan, where he operated mills and a tannery. He was a school commissioner, justice of the peace and commissioner for the Trial of Small Causes. He commanded a volunteer unit during the Lower Canada Rebellion and reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the local militia. He was mayor of Huntingdon and served on the councils for Hinchinbrook and Godmanchester counties. In 1840, he married Mary Susan Macnider. Somerville supported Confederation.
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