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Louisa Merrylees

  • GB 252
  • Person
  • late 19th-20th century
Louisa Merrylees was born in Canada. She was a widow when she met and married her second husband in 1909. He was Scottish, from Aberdeen/Shetlands and working in Canada. She had a son born in Canada in 1910 and the family came to the UK in 1911. She had a daughter, Lillian , who was born shortly after that. Her son's son was Neil Merrylees who worked as a lecturer in the School of Medicine at the University of Dundee.

Lillian Flannagan

  • GB 252
  • Person
  • early 20th - ?
Lillian Flannagan, nee Merrylees was born in the UK c 1912. Her mother was Canadian, Louisa Merrylees, who had come to the UK in 1911 after her son was born in 1910. Lillian was a member of the Lancashire Women’s Cricket Team. She was also a member of the Women’s cricket association. She married after the 2nd WW and actually went to live in Canada because her husband got a job there. Her married name was Flannagan – both she and her husband died quite a number of years ago (written in 2019), but the family are still in Canada.

Bill Brown

  • GB 254
  • Person
  • c1920s -1980
Bill Brown was born in Dundee c1920s. Bill was educated in Dundee before serving in the RAF during WWII. Bill married Sally, a school cook, and they had two children William and Anne. Bill later worked delivering bottles of coca-cola and other drinks around Dundee. After winning the 'pools' (coupon),
Bill and Sally moved to Kendal in the late 1970s. Bill died in 1980.

Alex Coupar

  • MS 258
  • Person
  • 1932-
Alex Coupar was educated at Dens Road and Morgan Academy. He always wanted to be a photographer and joined DC Thomson after leaving school as a press photographer, eventually specialising in theatre work and the Scots Magazine.
In 1953 he served his National Service with the Royal Air Force School of Photography where he was a publicity photographer. In 1955, Coupar returned to Dundee and DC Thomson and where he worked on news stories and with the Dundee Repertory Theatre, producing production and publicity photographs.
Leaving DC Thomson in 1966, Coupar set up his own studio at 19 South Tay Street, working freelance for the press and for companies like Dundee Rep and Bett Brothers builders (his first clients). Coupar's studio, Spanphoto, became known as one of Scotland's premier photographic firms.
Alex Coupar married Margaret with whom he had a son and daughter. He retired and closed Spanphoto in 2000.

Dr Don Carney

  • Person
  • fl 2003-2006
Carney was the first to receive a PhD by public output. His research specialism is the Doric dialect of NE Scotland. He has contributed to television programmes in the UK and the US. He is currently (2006) a lecturer on Hotel Tourism and Retail Management at Robert Gordon University.

Anya Lawrence

  • Person
  • 1949-
Anya Lawrence is a member of the Broughty Ferry branch of the Scottish National Party and was Chair of the Broughty Ferry Community Council

John Robinson Imrie

  • Person
  • 1914-2000
John Robinson Imrie was born in Wormit on Tay , attending secondary school at Harris Academy. He resided at Hawkhill Place while he studied medicine at University College Dundee, which his brother had also attended and qualified from.
Graduating in 1937, he worked as a Senior House Officer at Harrogate Hospital, moving on to work as a ships surgeon. Returning from this post, he worked at Torbay Hospital before joining the Royal Army Medial Corps. In this post he served in India and the Middle East, reaching the rank of Major.
After the war, Imrie joined with Dr. Venn-Dunn in General Practice in Torquay, now the medical centre at St. Marys. He was also clinical assistant in the Geriatric department at Paignton Hospital, and Newton Abbot Hospital. He was involved in founding Lily Derry Day Hospital at Torbay, and was medical officer to both the Post Office and the Territorial Army.

Peter Spencer

  • Person
  • fl 1963-2009
Peter Spencer joined the University of Dundee in 1963 teaching physics in the Carnegie Laboratory. He took honorary retirement in 2003. During his time at Dundee he was a schools liaison officer and organised many visits for school pupils from Tayside and Fife and visits to schools 'all of which seemed very successful'. He also gave Christmas lectures and later on ran courses for adults on orchestral music and opera. He was elected Opsoc Hon Pres twice and during his time Opsoc performed 'wonderful' productions in the Whitehall theatre with G and S and operettas. In 2009 he was running the campaign to have the Kings Theatre in the Cowgate reopened (see correspondence file).

Penelope Fraser

  • Person
She was a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the University and retired in December 2008

Innes Duffes

  • Person
  • 1929-2022
Innes Albert Duffes was the son of Alfred Duffes. He married in 1951 and they had two daughters. He ran family business of Alfred Duffus Motor Sales & Service 1954-1979. During that time the company was agent for Isetta, Triumph, Volkswagen and Opel cars.
Duffus was a member of many Dundee committees with a particular interest in the Nine Incorporated Trades of which he was Archivist. He was also Deacon of the Hammerman Craft and President of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Dundee. The Innes Duffus Lecture series was inaugurated in 2019 at the University of Dundee

George H Smith

  • Person
  • fl 1934-1940
George H Smith and Alex S Davie both studied medicine at the same time at University College, Dundee. They were friends and George went on to marry Alex's sister, Muriel Davie in 1940.

Wendy Barrie

  • Person
  • fl 2016
Wendy Barrie is the niece of Dorothy Lee (nee Barrie), the wife of poet & journalist, Joseph Lee.

Dr Charles H. Lloyd

  • Person
  • fl 1976 -
Charles H. Lloyd is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the University's Dental School and Hospital. He joined the staff of the University in 1976 and was promoted to senior lecturer in the Department of Dental Prosthetics and Gerontology in 1985.

Richard Miller

  • Person
  • fl 1977 -
Richard Miller was a student at the University of Dundee and is present in the photograph of the cricket team, 1977-1978

Professor Grahame Hardie

  • Person
  • fl 1974 -
Grahame Hardie FRS, FRSE, FMedSci is a Scottish biochemist, and Professor of Cellular Signalling, at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee

Stuart Donald

  • Person
  • fl 2008-
Stuart Donald, honorary Archivist for the Diocese of Brechin. Formerly a Trustee and Lay Representative and also the Secretary to the Trustees of St Andrew's Cathedral, Stuart Donald is also engaged in freelance research into the historiography of the Scottish Episcopal Church, including 'The Incumbents of St Andrew's Chapel and Church, Aberdeen, 1723-1909, Vol 1' which was published privately by Mr Donald and the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney.

Alexander Thoms

  • Person
  • 1836-1925
Alexander Thoms, of the Thoms of Clepington family, was the son-in-law of Matthew Forster Heddle (1862-1884), Professor of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. As a young man Thoms went to Bengal, India, where he remained engaged in estate and plantation business for about thirty years. In 1884 he moved to St Andrews and remained there until his death. He was active in local affairs and a keen supporter of St Andrews Cottage Hospital. In 1884 he was ordained an elder in St Leonard's kirk and was kirk treasurer from 1889-1921. An amateur mineralogist, Thoms presented a valuable collection of stones and minerals to University College, Dundee.

Lt. Colonel G R Cameron

  • Person
After Morgan Academy and accountancy training with Don & Stewart CA in Dundee, G. Ronald Cameron volunteered for service with the RAFVR with which he had war service in Belgium and Singapore. Following the war he was PA to his father, the sole proprietor of G. M. Cameron, Furniture Manufacturer, Dundee. Consequent upon the latter's death and the later loss of family control, G. Ronald Cameron joined Caird (Dundee) Ltd., Ashton Works, in the quality control and research department as a textile technologist. He also set up a training school for young new weavers included in which they were taught a history of the jute industry. He was also responsible for producing display stands for London exhibitions, which in design embraced the history of the jute industry and the firm's products. The decline of the jute industry in view, he graduated and was a Principal Teacher of economics and accountancy. He was gazetted for lengthy TA service.

Robert H S Robertson

  • Person
  • 17 June 1911-7 July 1999
Robert Hugh Stannus Robertson FGS FRSE was a 20th-century Scottish chemist and authority on clay minerals.
He was born in Greenwich east of London, the son of Sir Robert Robertson and educated at Rugby School. He then studied Chemistry at Cambridge University graduating MA around 1930. On graduating he spent some time mapping Dicksonland in Spitzbergen where the glacier Robertsonbreen is named after him.
In 1933 he became the Chief Chemist at Fullers Earth Union Ltd in Surrey then in 1944 moved to Glasgow. In 1958 Robertson moved to Pitlochry where he lived for the rest of his life. His field work was varied and worldwide, including, field work in Iran (Kermanshah, Spain, Greece, and the US, and the United Kingdom.
In 1969 he founded the Robertson Resource Use Institute in Pitlochry and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh a year later.

George Taylor and Margaret Corstorphine

  • Person
  • 1904-1993

George Taylor was born in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh University where he gained a degree in Botany. Leaving his post-graduate employment at the Royal Botanical Garden, Taylor moved south to establish the botanical section within the British Museum. In 1956 he was appointed the director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew and gained a knighthood in 1962. As well as his official career he travelled widely in China, Asia and Africa on plant collecting expeditions and had a special interest in the Himalayan poppy.

Robert Henry and Margaret Corstorphine were keen amateur botanists from Arbroath who dedicated their talents to studying the flora of the county of Angus. Over a forty-year period lasting into the early 1940s they amassed a comprehensive Herbarium and botanical library and were also engaged in the compilation of a manuscript survey of the flora of Angus, which was intended for publication. Taylor became closely involved with the Flora of Angus after the death of Robert Corstorphine. Margaret Corstorphine welcomed his assistance as her poor health left her unable to continue with the work alone.

A. S. Cumming

  • Person
  • fl 1930s
A. S. Cumming was General Manager of J & G Paton Jute/Flax Processing of Montrose. In the 1930s he studied at Dundee Technical College.
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