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Brough was raised by maternal relatives on a farm on the outskirts of
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A portrait of Mr. W.D. Ross first drew attention to his talent in 1896, and in the following year he scored a marked success at the Royal
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Brough's Grave in the ground of St Machar's Cathedral
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