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- 20 May 1940 -
Born and educated in Dundee, employed in various jobs as a young man before joining Strathmore Springs, starting as a spare driver and leaving as Senior Senior Sales Executive. Joe then moved to Sun Life, retiring as Sales Manager. Joe a successful amateur career as a darts player, becoming Dundee Singles Champion within six months of taking up the game, and holding the title six times, Tayside Champion of Champions three times and represented Scotland at all levels except full international. Married Pat in 1957 and had one daughter.
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- 1934-2013
Born in Alyth, Sharp was adopted and raised in Greenock. Leaving school at 14 Sharp did a variety of jobs before moving to London with the intention of writing.
In 1965, his screenplay 'A Knight in Tarnished Armour' was broadcast by the BBC. He also published his first novel 'A Green Tree in Gedde', which won the Scottish Arts Council Award in 1967, the same year he published 'The Wind Shifts'.
Sharp emigrated to the USA where he found critical and popular success writing film screenplays, also moving into television in the 1980s and 1990s. His feature film projects included The Osterman Weekend (1982), Rob Roy (1995) and Dean Spanley (2008).
Sharp married four times and had a total of six children
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sharp
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- 1902-1973
Anna Milne Mackie was born in East Newport in 1902, the daughter of William Ingles, master builder, and his wife Johanna Milne. She attended Newport School and Dundee High School where she was awarded the Harris Gold Medal. Mackie graduated from University College, Dundee with a Second Class Honours degree in mathematics in 1924. She trained as a teacher and taught for many years at Morgan Academy, Dundee where she was latterly Principal Teacher of Mathematics. Mackie died in Dundee Royal Infirmary, 19 December 1973.
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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.
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Cameron Thomson attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art from where he graduated in 1968. He has had exhibitions in Dundee, London and New York. He was a teacher of Art for six years. He married and was later divorced from Eileidh Campbell one of the best students of textile design at D of J. In 1978 he founded the Seer Centre which is dedicated to promoting rural regeneration, sustainable agriculture and organic products. He married Moira, another Duncan of Jordanstone graduate.
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- 26 September 1937-
Born to Alexander Halley Low and Dorothy LIndesay Gregory, Alex JS Low attended Seaford College. His father and grandfather, AG Low, were both keen amateur photographers, and Alex learned basic techniques from his father; by the age of ten, his pictures were being published in the local press.
Alex developed his photographic skills whilst doing his RAF National Service in 1955-1956, after which he matriculated at a local polytechnic. However, finding the course very basic, Alex rarely attended, preferring to develop the skills he had learned at a course at the Leica factory, which he had attended while he was serving in Germany. Using his own Leica camera, Alex began building up is own 'unauthorised' portfolio, his photographs winning the most stars of merit from a prestigious judging panel at an exhibition of students' work held by the polytechnic. Despite this achievement, Alex was not welcomed back to the polytechnic, being deemed as 'undisciplined'.
Alex determined to become a photo-journalist and continued to build his portfolio, travelling around the UK and Europe capturing scenes like the Dog Market at Club Row and villages around the Mediterranean coast. Originally getting small magazine assignments, in 1960 he was offered a job as staff photographer with the Pictorial Press agency, who worked in collaboration with the US based Globe Photos Inc. However, Alex continued to shoot images like the ban the bomb marches, as opposed to the agencies' film world shoots. Meeting and working with Simon Guttman expanded his assignments into picture stories centred around the arts, but by 1964, this work was declining and Alex had a brief spell working in TV for BBC 2 with Chris Brasher. In the same year, the new colour supplement 'Weekend Telegraph' was planned and Alex was invited to join the team as its first picture editor and only staff photographer. In that capacity he worked on major picture stories in many parts of the world, including the Isle of Wight pop festival, Californian hippy communes, Club Méditerranée, Corfu, the drug problem in 1960's Hong Kong and several projects across India, where he became friends with the last Maharaja of Bikaner.
In 1971, Alex became a director of Tom Stacey Ltd, in 1971 , His first project was a 20 volume series, the 'Peoples of the World' which have been published in 14 languages around the world, but not published in the UK. Alex has written that this 'was a great challenge. We assembled a team of eminent anthropologists to advise us and write the copy. We divided a map of the world into 18 appropriate areas, one for each volume, with two additional volumes for Man the Craftsman and The Future of Mankind. Each volume was to be 144 pages. The photographs came from the files of photographers all over the world, many of whom I knew as friends through my work at the Telegraph, and also from anthropologists and historic picture collections. These books have become a unique record of the peoples of the Earth, just before and in the middle of the 20th century, before their cultures were destroyed by the spread of 20th century western civilisation and globalisation.'
By 1979, Alex had moved to Cornwall, where he and his partner, Sally, ran Coombe Farm Country Guest House until 1999.
Alex has four children with Marianne Wenzel and Sally Wickes. In recent years, Alex has lived in Devon, and with the help of partner Anna Philpott, has gathered and organised the archive of his ancestors' papers.
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- 1949-
Dr Adrian Hodd studied Geography at Cambridge University from 1968 to 1971 then was employed by the University of Dundee as a Research Assistant in the Geography department from 1971 to 1975. During his time in the department he completed his PhD Thesis, "Draining the Carse of Gowrie", (1974-5), before going on to produce two further works in the same vein, "Runrig on the Eve of Agricultural Revolution in Scotland" (1974) and "Cultivation of Orchard Fruits in the Carse of Gowrie" (1975), both of which were published in the Scottish Geographical Magazine. He also worked with Professor S J Jones on his research interests.
Hodd left the university world and for the next 34 years pursued various posts in school teaching and local authority educational administration in Lancashire, Cumbria, West Sussex, Lincolnshire and East Sussex. His last substantive post was as Headteacher of Lewes Old Grammar School, East Sussex, and he retired from this post in 2000. He has since carried out some teaching on a part-time basis at an international school near Hastings, finally entering full time retirement in July 2008. In 2009 he was aged 60.
Hodd left the university world and for the next 34 years pursued various posts in school teaching and local authority educational administration in Lancashire, Cumbria, West Sussex, Lincolnshire and East Sussex. His last substantive post was as Headteacher of Lewes Old Grammar School, East Sussex, and he retired from this post in 2000. He has since carried out some teaching on a part-time basis at an international school near Hastings, finally entering full time retirement in July 2008. In 2009 he was aged 60.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 1867-1957
Sir William A. Craigie (1867-1957) was a Scottish born philologist and a lexicographer. It was during his time as the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary that he first proposed the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue in 1919. The first volume was published in 1937 and the last in 2002 taking 65 years to complete the project.
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- b.1928
Enid Gauldie, née MacNeilage, was educated at University College Dundee, graduating with an MA in 1947. She then worked for the University Library in St Andrews and for the reference section of Dundee Public Library, before leaving to have children. During this time she occasionally worked part time in the University Library in Dundee. In 1967 Gauldie was awarded a BPhil and went on to become a research assistant in the University's History Department. She remained there until 1970 when she left to have another child. Gauldie has published several books and articles and, in her retirement, opened an antique bookshop in Glendoick, Perthshire.
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- 1948 - 2010
Born in Cumbria, and with a background in sheep farming, Mary was a mature student at Dundee University, graduating in English and History. Her doctoral thesis 'Rural Society in Scotland from the Restoration to the Union' was completed in 2004. She led an oral history project at Abernyte which examined social change in the 20th century and where she was an active member of the community. Her publications were wide and varied, including 'Scottish crop yields in the second half of the seventeenth century: evidence from the Mains of Castle Lyon in the Carse of Gowrie' in Agricultural History Review (2007) and co-author of ' Battered but Unbowed: Dundee c1603-1727' in the publication 'Dundee 1600-1800'. Mary also worked as part of the University Archive's teaching team, specialising in 17th century Scots palaeography and where she was also responsible for cataloguing the Glamis Castle muniments on behalf of the Earl of Strathmore. She also taught the interdisciplinary M.Litt course, Women, Culture and Society. Through her background in early modern social and economic history she also contributed to the Maritime Environment module of the MRes in Environmental History run in conjunction with the University of Stirling.
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Professor G. P. Henderson was a lecturer in the department of Philosophy at the University of Dundee and the editor of the publication 'The Philisophical Quarterly'.
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- 1866-1922
J. P. KUENEN began his work in Leiden, taking up the chair of Physics in Dundee in 1895, until 1906.
His collaboration with E. Waymouth Reid continued up until his departure, and with his absence Reid left off working with X-Rays. They worked jointly on X-Rays in early 1896, a matter of a few months after Rontgen published his first announcement in December 1895. They published a joint note in 'Nature' in March 1897. 'Rontgen Photographs' is an obvious adaptation of the format used by Valentine's for their view books advertised on the rear cover. One might therefore speculate that it was issued in a large number whereas it appears to be rather scarce, with only two copies recorded from America [the Countway Library, Harvard and MIT] and two from the Netherlands [Boerhaave Museum and the University of Leiden, possibly both donations from Kuenen].
The initials C.W.K.W., on 'Rontgen Photographs' might actually refer to joint ownership - C.W. and K.W.- and the first of these might be CHISHOLM WILLIAMS who was in Edinburgh at the time of the Reid-Kuenen collaboration. He later became Electrotherapeutist and Radiographer to the West London Hospital in 1903. It was reported that within a few weeks of Rontgen's announcement he had built his own X-Ray apparatus and had verified Rontgen's discovery. He treated his first patient with X-Rays in 1900, a 61-year-old man with epithelioma of the tongue. Over time Williams suffered severe radiation burns to his arms and hands, losing one hand and two fingers from the other. He died in 1928, and is one of the 14 names of British X-Ray pioneers recorded on the Hamburg Martyrs' Memorial.
His collaboration with E. Waymouth Reid continued up until his departure, and with his absence Reid left off working with X-Rays. They worked jointly on X-Rays in early 1896, a matter of a few months after Rontgen published his first announcement in December 1895. They published a joint note in 'Nature' in March 1897. 'Rontgen Photographs' is an obvious adaptation of the format used by Valentine's for their view books advertised on the rear cover. One might therefore speculate that it was issued in a large number whereas it appears to be rather scarce, with only two copies recorded from America [the Countway Library, Harvard and MIT] and two from the Netherlands [Boerhaave Museum and the University of Leiden, possibly both donations from Kuenen].
The initials C.W.K.W., on 'Rontgen Photographs' might actually refer to joint ownership - C.W. and K.W.- and the first of these might be CHISHOLM WILLIAMS who was in Edinburgh at the time of the Reid-Kuenen collaboration. He later became Electrotherapeutist and Radiographer to the West London Hospital in 1903. It was reported that within a few weeks of Rontgen's announcement he had built his own X-Ray apparatus and had verified Rontgen's discovery. He treated his first patient with X-Rays in 1900, a 61-year-old man with epithelioma of the tongue. Over time Williams suffered severe radiation burns to his arms and hands, losing one hand and two fingers from the other. He died in 1928, and is one of the 14 names of British X-Ray pioneers recorded on the Hamburg Martyrs' Memorial.
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- 1862-1948
EDWARD WAYMOUTH REID was born in Canterbury, graduated from Cambridge with a Natural Sciences degree in 1883, subsequently qualifying in medicine at St Bartholomew's, London in 1885. He was appointed Professor of Physiology at Dundee in 1889, and unsuccessfully applied for the Chairs at Edinburgh in 1899, and at Glasgow in 1908. He remained in Dundee until his retirement in 1935.
His research was primarily upon physical and physico-chemical methods applied to physiological problems. He had an accomplished amateur interest in photography and experimented with early colour processes and stereo-photography. It is not surprising that he became interested in Rontgen's work. In Reid's paper to the Scottish Medical & Surgical Journal of 1897, he wrote : "The early X-rays shadow pictures were a real delight. We groped for swallowed teeth within the entrails of criminals supplied by the Bell Street authorities, and located bullets within the skulls of living men. The very idea of transparency in what we had always considered opaque was a stimulant to a photographer." In the event, Reid's interest in x-ray photography was short-lived, a matter of good fortune for him. As it was, he did suffer from over-exposure - 'Professor Kuenen, who in those days himself made all the college vacuum tubes, was my colleague in the sport. In his attempts to get a picture of a fountain pen in the pocket of my waistcoat worn front to back, he succeeded in damaging a good square foot of the varnish of my casing, though luckily the insulation of my field coils held out, and I can still command enough amperes to electrolyse a lobster mayonnaise.' SMSJ, 1897. In 1897, Reid subjected himself to 4 exposures of 20 to 90 minutes each over a period of 4 days, resulting in severe dermatitis and loss of hair for a prolonged period.
His research was primarily upon physical and physico-chemical methods applied to physiological problems. He had an accomplished amateur interest in photography and experimented with early colour processes and stereo-photography. It is not surprising that he became interested in Rontgen's work. In Reid's paper to the Scottish Medical & Surgical Journal of 1897, he wrote : "The early X-rays shadow pictures were a real delight. We groped for swallowed teeth within the entrails of criminals supplied by the Bell Street authorities, and located bullets within the skulls of living men. The very idea of transparency in what we had always considered opaque was a stimulant to a photographer." In the event, Reid's interest in x-ray photography was short-lived, a matter of good fortune for him. As it was, he did suffer from over-exposure - 'Professor Kuenen, who in those days himself made all the college vacuum tubes, was my colleague in the sport. In his attempts to get a picture of a fountain pen in the pocket of my waistcoat worn front to back, he succeeded in damaging a good square foot of the varnish of my casing, though luckily the insulation of my field coils held out, and I can still command enough amperes to electrolyse a lobster mayonnaise.' SMSJ, 1897. In 1897, Reid subjected himself to 4 exposures of 20 to 90 minutes each over a period of 4 days, resulting in severe dermatitis and loss of hair for a prolonged period.
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- 1967-1968
A collaboration between several students residing in Airlie Hall, including Alan Craxford, Harry Brooks, Rick Sugden and Robert Peacock produced 'The Airlie Morning Post' (TAMP), a newspaper offering news mainly related to Airlie Hall of Residence from the students' point of view. Ten issues were produced during the first session of the University of Dundee, 1967-1968.
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- 1928-2011
Tom Craigie was educated at St Joseph's Primary and St John's Secondary Schools. He obtained an early apprenticeship in electrical engineering with Drake & Gorham. After serving his two years of National Service he settled into the wholesale electrical trade with Wood & Cairns in King Street, Dundee. Within a few years he became Branch Manager and in 1958 he and his family relocated to Carnoustie. When Wood & Cairns was later acquired by the HAT Group, Tom was appointed Company Director and assumed overall control of their Scottish operations.
In 1983 he set up his own electrical wholesale business, TC Components based in Carnoustie. Though the business was successful they decided to wind it up in 1988 and Tom elected to lend his business experience to David Bottoms in his Ironmongery shop in Peter Street. Tom finally retired around 1996 to spend more time with his wife Ella who had by this time fallen into ill health; she died three years later.
His intense interest in the Dundee and Newtyle Railway started around 2005 following a family discussion. His research gathered momentum and on one occasion he was told by one particular expert around 2009 that, having pieced together so many previously unconnected strands of the story, he was probably by now the foremost authority on the subject. Tom felt strongly that the Dundee and Newtyle Railway was not afforded its proper place in history and that it was ahead of its time in many ways, preceding less innovative but more heralded developments in other parts of the country. He was also keen to highlight the qualities of Charles Landale whom he thought had not been appropriately recognised for his achievements.
The intended outcome of Tom's research was to have been twofold: a book chronicling the history of the railway from conception to demise, detailing Landale's role in particular; and a DVD featuring dramatization of some of the key events during the life of the railway. Due to begin filming some key sequences in the summer of 2011 he tragically passed away suddenly and unexpectedly shortly before this. The research notes are handwritten transcriptions of documents held in a variety of repositories, mainly the University of Dundee Archive Services, Dundee City Archives, Dundee Central Library and the National Archives of Scotland.
In 1983 he set up his own electrical wholesale business, TC Components based in Carnoustie. Though the business was successful they decided to wind it up in 1988 and Tom elected to lend his business experience to David Bottoms in his Ironmongery shop in Peter Street. Tom finally retired around 1996 to spend more time with his wife Ella who had by this time fallen into ill health; she died three years later.
His intense interest in the Dundee and Newtyle Railway started around 2005 following a family discussion. His research gathered momentum and on one occasion he was told by one particular expert around 2009 that, having pieced together so many previously unconnected strands of the story, he was probably by now the foremost authority on the subject. Tom felt strongly that the Dundee and Newtyle Railway was not afforded its proper place in history and that it was ahead of its time in many ways, preceding less innovative but more heralded developments in other parts of the country. He was also keen to highlight the qualities of Charles Landale whom he thought had not been appropriately recognised for his achievements.
The intended outcome of Tom's research was to have been twofold: a book chronicling the history of the railway from conception to demise, detailing Landale's role in particular; and a DVD featuring dramatization of some of the key events during the life of the railway. Due to begin filming some key sequences in the summer of 2011 he tragically passed away suddenly and unexpectedly shortly before this. The research notes are handwritten transcriptions of documents held in a variety of repositories, mainly the University of Dundee Archive Services, Dundee City Archives, Dundee Central Library and the National Archives of Scotland.
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- 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
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
Professor Alan Chalmers Lendrum
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- 1907-1994
AC Lendrum was born in Midlothian and brought up in Brechin. He was educated at Glasgow High School and Ardrossan Academy then attended Glasgow University from where he graduated MA, MD and BSc.
In 1933 he was appointed assistant to Sir Robert Muir at Western Infirmary, Glasgow, and later became a lecturer in pathology at Glasgow University. From 1947 to 1967 Lendrum was professor of pathology at St Andrews University and became professor at Dundee when the University was created there in 1967.
Lendrum served on several boards and committees in the University until he retired in 1972. Lendrum was a well respected academic and was visiting professor at Yale in 1960. His experiments with staining tissues, in particular, made a significant contribution to the scientific study of disease. An interest in technical matters led to his honorary membership and presidency of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences. A member of many national and international organisations, he was a Founder Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. He was Chairman of the Governors of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art from 1975-1977.
His first wife, Elizabeth died in 1983. He died at Balla Wray Nursing Home by Windermere on 2 January 1994 at the age of eighty-seven and was survived by his second wife, Dr Ann Sandison.
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Catherine (Cathy) Pennington Paunov is a native of Washington, DC. Following graduation from high school in 1968, she participated in an American Institute for Foreign Study program that summer at the University of Dundee. Two of her favourite classes were History of the Highlands and Archaeology.
Cathy holds the BS degree from the University of Maryland in government and politics, the MS degree in the Administration of Justice from the American University in Washington, and the MLS and JD degrees from Brigham Young University. From 1972-1974, she served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Italy. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas. Since graduation from BYU, she has lived in Texas and New York, where she met her husband, Zlatko Paunov, a sculptor, originally from Bulgaria.
Now semi-retired, they reside in Florida and New York, depending on season. Cathy continues some pro bono legal work with non-profit organizations, as well as substitute teaching at local schools.
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- 1929-2010
Dr Stuart Watson McGowan was born in 1929, Bothwell, Glasgow and died in 2010, Dundee aged 80. Dr McGowan married Mabel Wilson in 1966, Dundee.
In 1969, Dr McGowan was a lecturer in Anaesthesia at the University of Dundee and from 1972 became a Senior Lecturer until 1992.
Dr McGowan was Honorary Secretary of the North-East of Scotland Society of Anaesthetists (1964-66). Council member of The Scottish Society of the History of Medicine (1990-92).
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Harry Duffus was the father of George Duffus, entertainer, and a relation of Innes Duffus, Archivist to the Nine Trades.
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- 1933 -
Gordon B Corbet was born in Dundee and attended Morgan Academy. He graduated from University College, Dundee with a BSc first in Zoology and was a post-graduate student between September 1955 to August 1958 in the Department of Natural History at University College Dundee/Queen's College, then at college of St Andrews University. His thesis, 'The distribution, variation and ecology of voles in the Scottish Highlands', was submitted in late 1959 and he graduated PhD in June 1960; supervisor Dr Fred Waterhouse, external examiner Dr Mick Southern, Oxford. Corbet's career included an assistant lectureship at Sir John Cass College, London and offices with the British Museum. On his retirement in 1992 he returned to Scotland
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- 1911-1977
Wrote 'The Browning Version' and many other plays. The film for which these were scripts was 'The VIPs', also known as 'Hotel International', with an all-star cast including Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. It was released in 1963.
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