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Dr John Berry was born in Edinburgh and educated at Eton and Trinity College Cambridge. After gaining a PhD at the University of St Andrews he pursued a career in zoology and biology, working for the Fishery Board of Scotland, the Biological Research Station at University College, Southampton, and the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. In the course of his work he gained an international reputation, and travelled extensively, publishing papers and articles on freshwater fisheries, hydroelectric development and ornithology. During his career he was also consultant ecologist for the Scottish Landowners' Federation, a leading member of the Scottish Marine Biology Association, the Scottish Wildlife Trust, the International Union for the Conservation of Natural Resources and the Wildfowl Research Bureau. Between 1949 and 1967 he was director of Nature Conservation in Scotland. Dr Berry also had strong links with the University of Dundee, and was awarded an honorary LL.D there in 1970, and an honorary DSc from St Andrews in 1991. Dr Berry lived at Tayfield Estate in Newport, which has been owned by the Berry family since the end of the 18th Century. He died in February 2002 at the age of 95.

John Samuel Greene Blair OBE, TD, D. Litt, ChM, FRCS, FRCP was one of three children of George Blair (1886-1961).
He was educated at Dundee High School, and was the Dux of the School in 1946. After leaving school he studied medicine at the University of St Andrews, and was later awarded a BA by the University London.
During National Service, Dr Blair served in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1952 until 1955. He subsequently had extensive service in the Territorial Army, and was appointed Honorary Colonel of 225 (Highland) Field Ambulance RAMC in 1982. He later served as Chairman of the British Medical Association's Armed Forces Committee.
Dr Blair was Consultant Surgeon at Perth Royal Infirmary from 1965 until 1990, also serving as Honorary Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Dundee. In 2004, he was appointed as an Honorary Senior Clinical Teacher, Division of Medicine & Therapeutics at the University of Dundee. He had previously been appointed as an Honorary Senior Lecture, and later Honorary Reader, in the School of Biological and Medical Sciences at the University of St. Andrews.
He has served as Captain of the Royal Perth Golfing Society & County and City Club. He is also Vice-President Emeritus of the International Society for the History of Medicine and a member of the University of Dundee Medical History Museum committee. He is an expert on the history of medicine and has been chairman of both the British Society for the History of Medicine and the Scottish Society for the History of Medicine. He is the author of several books and articles on medical history. He has also served as President of the Perth branch of the Franco-Scottish Society of Scotland. Dr Blair married Ailsa Jean Bowes MBE in 1953 and the couple have two sons, and one daughter. Dr Blair died in 2023.

Dr Kenneth Baxter was born in Dundee in 1982. He first matriculated at the University of Dundee in 1999, graduating with a first class honours degree in History in 2003, and was awarded a PhD in 2008. He joined Archive Services in 2002 and has taught on the History programme since 2008. He has a strong interest in the history of Dundee.

Kenneth Macaulay was educated in Lasswade, Melbourne and Edinburgh and commenced his medical studies at Dundee in 1971, graduating in 1977.
House Officer posts were undertaken in Stornoway, where he met his wife Alison, and Dundee. After an SHO year in North Tees General in Stockton on Tees Dr Macaulay returned to Dundee to continue specialist medical training at Ninewells and DRI but later transferred to GP training with a Dundee practice in Inverary Terrace.
In 1982 he and his family moved to Fife in order for him to take up a position as a GP. His practice in Rosyth was very active in teaching medical students and he was an Honorary Clinical Teacher in General Practice at both the University of Aberdeen and the University of Dundee for a number of years.
He retired from General Practice in 2015.

Dr Martyn Ward is Senior Lecturer in the School of Learning and Teaching at the College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee

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.

Dr. Nicola Streeten is an academic, illustrator, cultural anthropologist, historian of British cartoonists, expert in the history of women cartoonists and British graphic novelist. Streeten is the co-founder of Laydeez Do Comics and co-author of The Inking Woman: the history of British female cartoonistswith Cath Tate. A comics scholar, lecturer and award-winning comics creator, as well as a philanthropist and illustrator, her award-winning graphic novel "Billy, Me & You" details Streeten coping with the death of her son.
https://nicolastreeten.wordpress.com/about/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Streeten

Whitaker was born in Poole, Dorset in 1927, to a Lancashire family. His father was an industrial chemist and moved the family to Newport, Gwent during the Second World War. Whitaker went to Trinity College, Dublin, initially to read Physics, but graduated with a degree in history. Following this, he went on to study for a PhD at Manchester University, writing his thesis on the 'Manchester Liberals'.
In the 1950s and into the 1960s, Whitaker spent time studying and lecturing at Makerere University, Uganda's largest university. His research largely concerned Nigerian elections but also examined (and in many cases visiting), the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanganyika (Tanzania) and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
Whitaker's time in Uganda coincided with great political change as a result of growing nationalism and Britain's moves towards decolonisation. Nigeria became the autonomous Federation of Nigeria in 1954 and in October 1958, Britain agreed Nigeria would become an independent state on 1st October 1960. Tanganyika became independent in December 1961 and Uganda held its first elections in 1961, becoming independent in October 1962. In Uganda and Nigeria, early elections and politics were played out along tribal and ethnic lines leading to tension and unrest between the various peoples. It is in this context that Whitaker's work must be viewed.
Whitaker left Uganda in 1962, and went with his family to Chicago on a six month lecture tour, also encompassing Minnesota and Canada. Following this, he spent time travelling between Africa and Britain, first returning to Uganda, followed by some time in Manchester then another stay in Uganda. Some time in Zanzibar followed, leaving just before the 1964 uprising in which African revolutionaries overthrew the Arab-minority led government, murdering up to 20,000 Asian civilians.
He took up a post as a lecturer in Political Science at the University of Dundee in 1964, living in Letham, where he later becoming a local councillor. In the late 1970s and 1980s, he would spend winter lecturing in the USA and Canada, and also travelled to Thailand. He moved to Devon upon his partial retirement, before fully retiring in 1983. Whitaker died in 1988.
The Philip Whitaker collection relates largely to his work in central Africa in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Dr William Maxwell Jamieson O.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P. (Ed.), F.F.C.M., D.P.H., took up duty as Senior R.M.O. at King's Cross Hospital, Dundee, in 1939, and apart from service with the R.A.F., 1944-1947, he stayed there until his retirement in 1979. He had been promoted to Physician Superintendent in 1948, and also headed the University's Department of Communicable (Infectious) Diseases. He headed the organising committee for the centenary celebrations of Dundee Medical School in 1987.

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.

Born in Edinburgh in 1879, Urquhart attended the George Heriot School, where his interest in archaeology, language and history began. He was apprenticed to a mechanical and electrical engineer in Fife, moving his family to Longforgan in 1949.
Urquhart was heavily involved in the Scottish Scouting movement, becoming a scoutmaster in Fife in 1917, then District Commissioner in Kirkcaldy and serving on the first Scottish Executive Committee from its formation in 1918 until Urquhart's retirement in 1933, when he was give the Silver Wolf, the movement's highest award.
A leading member of the Abertay Historical Society, Urquhart continued to follow his archaeological and historical interests well into his late 70s, researching Castle Huntly and the ancient roads in the Carse of Gowrie as well as discovering a 2,000 year old earth house in Longforgan.

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.

Eric Baillie was a student at the University of Dundee studying maths from 1968 - 1972. He was also a member of the Dundee University operatic Society. After university he was a maths teacher at a variety of schools across Dundee and was very active in educational trade unions.

Evelyn Walker lived at 125 Perth Road Dundee.

Ewan Dobie is a joiner in the Dundee and Perthshire area

Effie Nicholson Noakes (known in her working life as Fay) was born 10th November 1927 at Glasgow Maternity Hospital, daughter of Alfred Smith Noakes, master cabinet maker and Jessie Rodger Nicholson who was a seamstress and glovemaker. They lived at 143 Sinclair Drive, Glasgow when she was born. Fay Noakes was an apprentice with a Chartered Accounts in Glasgow in the early 1940s. Moving to Perthshire she took up the role of bookkeeper with an Estate, another in Angus and a third back near Perth.
In 1962, following the death of her mother, Noakes travelled to Johannesburg, South Africa, and immediately found work as a bookkeeper. Noakes was awarded a certificate in the Theory of Accountancy in April 1971. Noakes accountancy career took her to Malawi, Sudan, Guyana, Zambia.
She died on the 13th February 2019 at Perth Royal Infirmary.

Frank McDermott attended St Michael's School, Dundee, leaving at the age of 15 years old. After working for a few months as a message boy for the local Co-Op, his teacher, Michael Dewar suggested he joined Dundee Rep as a dogsbody.
McDermott worked at Dundee Rep between March 1958 and 1961, where he painted scenery, sourced props, shifted scenes and helped with the lighting. It was the habit of Dundee Rep to employ cheap acting 'extras' from Dundee Art College, and Frank frequently joined them on stage in a variety of roles. His first speaking role was in Juno and the Paycock.
Frank left Dundee in 1961, and did a brief stint with the Scottish Academy of Music and Drama before leaving the stage all together. He went on to gain a degree in Educational Psychology and developed courses in Welfare at the College of Further Education in Grimsby and was also responsible for the development of its School of Social Care.
Since retirement in 1999, Frank has also worked as a supply teacher and youth justice officer. He has two sons and two daughters.

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'.

George Bernard Shaw was a Dublin born, Nobel prize winning playwright and critic. His plays include 'Major Barbara', 'The Doctor's Dilemma', 'Caesar and Cleopatra', 'Pygmalion', and 'Saint Joan'. He was also a prolific letter writer.

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.

George Mason was an employee of Timex Electronics group, employed in their manufacturing plant in Dundee during the Timex dispute. The Timex corporation had been a major employer within the city for a number of decades when, in the early 1980s, citing difficulties with competing with cheaper workforces and production costs in the Far East, the company attempted to streamline the plant. This streamlining took the form of attempting to cut wages and employee numbers, which led to a dispute with the workers and their Union. This dispute resulted in mass demonstrations, picket lines, clashes with police, a large number of redundancies, and the bringing in of replacement workers to take the place of those sacked and picketing, before ultimately resulting in the closure of the plant and Timex withdrawing from Dundee in 1993. During this time period George Mason was an active member of the union, and had his employment terminated for taking part in the picketing.
George Mason is currently (2006) a janitor at the University of Dundee.

George Nicoll studied at University College, Dundee. His First Science examinations were Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Geology. Second Science Examinations were Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. He graduated from University of St Andrews in 1949 and received a Diploma in Education from Dundee Training College in 1950. Mr Nicoll went on to teach at various schools in Dundee including Harris Academy.