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Tayside Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Engineering Services

  • Corporate body
  • 1965-1999
The Dundee Limb Fitting Centre was opened on 20th September 1965 and occupied "The Lodge", a house built by John Don of William, John Don & Company and which had housed a Red Cross hospital during the First World War and then the Infant Hospital. The Centre was the first special purpose in-patient facility in the United Kingdom to offer a comprehensive, integrated service to amputees. In 1979 the title Tayside Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Engineering Services was adopted to embrace the full range of activities at the Centre and its sister unit in Dundee Royal Infirmary. In 1994 the Centre became part of the Dundee Teaching Hospital NHS trust.

Dundee Limb Fitting Centre

  • Corporate body
  • 1965-1999
Dundee Limb Fitting Centre was originally based in Broughty Ferry, founded in 1965 by Professor George Murdoch, who specialised in the study of prosthetics and officially opened by legendary amputee and air ace Sir Douglas Bader. It moved to the Tayside Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Technology Centre by Ninewells Hospital in 1999.

Hillside Home

  • Corporate body
  • 1876-1997
Hillside Home, Perth was founded in 1876 for those suffering with incurable diseases. In 1883, it moved to a site on Dundee Road, Perth and became known as Hillside Home. In 1888 a building was provided for patients suffering from consumption (TB). In 1901 Barnhill Sanatorium in Perth opened. This was probably the building referred to as a new hospital for those with consumption and was built in connection to Hillside. In 1908 the property adjacent to Hillside and accomodation was provided for the treatment of phtisis. Hillside closed in 1997 and was demolished in 2007 to make way for a housing development.

Development Office

  • Corporate body
  • 1990s-2003
During the 1990s the Development Office was based in Cross Row and promoted the University. It included within its sphere the Alumni Office and Appeals and Campaigns. In 2003 the Development Office became External Relations and moved to the Tower. Alumni Relations remained part of the department but remained in Cross Row. It became the Alumni and Development Office in 2007 after combining with Trusts & Foundations fundraising as well as specific campaigns - Diabetes Research etc. The Press Office and Student Recruitment and Admissions also became part of External Relations.

The Matador Land and Cattle Company

  • Corporate body
  • 1878-
The Matador Land and Cattle Company had its beginning in 1878, when a Texas cattleman, Henry H. (Hank) Campbell, took a herd of longhorn cattle to Chicago and sold them for a handsome profit. Following the sale, Campbell entered into a partnership with A. M. Britton, a banker, and returned to Texas to acquire a range, purchase cattle, and establish a ranch. The presence of venture capital in Great Britain during the last quarter of the nineteenth century led Britton to Scotland in 1882. There, in Dundee, he succeeded in arousing the interest of a group of businessmen who were eager to invest their funds in American mines, lumber, land, or cattle. Led by several Dundee merchants, the Scots incorporated the Matador Land and Cattle Company, Limited, a joint-stock company, and agreed to purchase the Texas properties.

School of Food & Accommodation Management

  • Corporate body
  • 1975-2003
The School of Food & Accommodation Management came into existence in 1975 and was situated in the Matthew Building in the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art campus. It was renamed the School of Management and Consumer Studies (MACS) and became a department of the University of Dundee after the 1994 merger. In 2003 it was transferred to the University of Abertay, Dundee.

Young at Heart

  • Corporate body
  • fl. 2022-
Young at Heart is a women's group is based at Kirkton Community Centre and consists mainly of retired women from the local area. They meet each week to chat, and arrange visits and activities involving other groups, organisations and individuals

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.
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