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Peter Carmichael was born in Fife on 21 March 1809, and was the son of James Carmichael, a local flax mill manager who later established a mill in Dundee. He was educated at Dundee Grammar School and apprenticed at Monifieth Foundry in the making of textile machinery. Carmichael worked as an engineer in London and Leeds until 1833 when he returned to Dundee to become mill manager for Baxter Brothers.

Peter Carmichael was made a partner in 1852 and senior partner in 1872 (on the death of Sir David Baxter), remaining in close association with the firm until his death on 6 May 1891. He was described as the 'great motive power in the development of textile manufacturing in Dundee'.

Peter married Margaret Carmichael (no relation), daughter of the engineer James Carmichael and they had three sons, James Drummond Carmichael, Charles Carmichael (who died in infancy) and William Baxter Carmichael, and a daughter Grace Margaret Carmichael. All of his children suffered periods of ill health and all predeceased their father.

In 1869 Carmichael purchased the estate of Arthurstone near Meigle in Perthshire, and in the 1880s erected a church at the nearby village of Ardler in memory of his son, James Drummond Carmichael (1849-1881). He has been described as an expert manager of men and inventor of machines and a concerned and active public citizen, with wide interests in nature, religion and church affairs, literature and art. Peter Carmichael was a noted philanthropist, giving generous donations to various churches, Dundee Royal Infirmary and the Mars Training Ship among many other causes. He was one of the founders of Dundee Sailors Home. When he died his estate was valued at £516,000 and his will included several bequests to charitable organisations including £3000 to Dundee Royal Infirmary.

Patrick Sandeman was born in 1862 and died in the late 1940s or early 1950s. He was an elder of the Glasite Church in Glasgow c 1920s until his death. He had three children:Patrick Sandeman (son) who married May and lived in Bearsden then moved to Eastbourne on his retiral; Norah Sandeman a cellist at the Halle Orchestra and Margaret Sandeman (grandmother of depositor) married Archibald Ross Baxter and lived at Dunvegan and died c1946.

His great grandaughter, Jane, says: 'Patrick Sandeman was my great grandfather (down maternal line) I think he lived until late '40s or early '50s. He had 3 children Patrick Sandeman who married May - lived in Bearsden then moved to Eastbourne on retiral. NO children. I think he died in the '80s or early '90s, can't quite remember. Norah Sandeman - cellist at the Halle Orchestra. Never married. No children. Died c 1982. Margaret Sandeman (my grandmother) married Archibald Ross Baxter and lived at 20 Canniesburn Road Dunvegan died c1946 3 children Alison Margaret Baxter 1925 to 2009, Mary Ross Baxter 1927 still living Phyllis Patricia Baxter (my mother) still living. Patrick Sandeman had a brother called Archibald who Mum thinks wasn't very involved in the church. He was married to Muriel Sandeman (artist). I'm not so familiar with their family but they had a son who married a Frenchwoman and they had 2 children called Norman and Armelle Sandeman. I think they had more children but not so sure who they were. The family tree will clarify. There were lots of spinster aunts, perhaps some uncles who also never married. Dorothy and Helen, Peggy and Jean, Connie are some that immediately spring to mind - a mixture of Sandemans and Baxters. Rhoda Philip lived in Dundee at 17 Chalmers Street, the house in which she was born. She was a cousin of my grandparents but I'm not sure exactly the connections. The family tree has lots of crossings in it because a lot of cousins married and I am aware that my grandparents were 1st cousins as were my great grandparents I think and there, 2 brothers married 2 sisters.'

The Glasite church was a Christian sect founded in about 1730 in Scotland by John Glas. His views were aided in its expansion by his son in law Robert Sandeman who helped establish churches in England and the United States of America where they can be known as Sandemanian rather than Glasite churches.

Neil Stewart (1814-1875) was primarily a Botanist and was a member of many learned societies, including the Botanical Society of Edinburgh and excelled as a botanical draughtsman in the illustration of natural history subjects. He executed a large number of botanical drawings for the Botanical classes in the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh and for a number of years was the elected artist to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, of which he became an Associate in 1850.

William Tennant Gairdner (1824-1907) studied medicine at Edinburgh in the 1840's, gaining good reports and coming to work in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Gairdner applied for the post of pathologist to the ERI in 1848. This meant he became responsible for the "Edinburgh Pathology Register", a series of large leather bound volumes that recorded the findings from every post-mortem examination. Throughout his career he progressed rapidly, from Clerk to Infirmary Pathologist and finally, to Physician. His last appointment was to the Chair of Medicine at Glasgow University, and it was while in this position that he received his Knighthood.