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Margaret (Pearl) Mitchell

  • Person
Pearl Mitchell was a former secretary of the Department of Physics. She worked at the University for 40 years

Margaret Mitchell

  • Person
  • fl 1992-
Margaret Mitchell was Director of Research for the Police Research Unit at Glasgow Caledonian University from 1992-1999. She moved to Australia and taught policing at Charles Stuart University from 1999-2005. She then became Associate Professor and Director and the Sellenger Centre at Edith Cowan University. She published widely on policing, trauma and disasters.

Margaret Meakin

  • Person
  • 1925-c.2003
Margaret Meakin was born in 1925 and died c. 2003. She was educated at University College, Dundee, and went on to teach English at Stobswell and Craigie High, Dundee.

Margaret Grant

  • Person
  • June 29 1933-December 2 2020
Margaret Grant was the founder of the Brittle Bone Society, the UK’s leading charity for the support of people with the rare bone condition Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI).
She received an honorary doctorate from Dundee University in 2018, the year of the charity’s 50th anniversary. She was also named Dundee Citizen of the Year in 1975. Other achievements included the OIF (Osteogenesis Impefercta Foundation) award in 1982 for hosting the first international conference for people with OI and the Tunstall Telecoms National caring award in 1988. She was awarded the MBE in 1989
Margaret was married and had one daughter
Source: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/1787443/obituary-brittle-bone-campaigner-margaret-grant/

Margaret Fraser Christie

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  • c1917-?
Margaret F Christie was educated at Morgan Academy, after which she trained at King's Cross Hospital, qualifying as a fever nurse in 1936. Christie qualified as a general nurse by 1939.

Lt. Colonel G R Cameron

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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.

Louisa Merrylees

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  • 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.

Lord George Robertson

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  • 12th April 1946 -

Born in Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, Scotland.

Robertson completed his education at Dunoon Grammar School and Queen's College, Dundee. During his time at Queen's College, it transitioned to the University of Dundee, with Robertson being one of the first graduates in 1968. He was also one of the minority of graduates that year who decided to take a Dundee degree over a St. Andrews one.

Robertson's student life was extensive. He wrote a column for the student newspaper, 'Annasach' (launched 1967), which he used to promote the new University and encourage other students to take a University of Dundee degree over a St. Andrews degree.

Robertson was also highly involved in student protests. In 1968, he was one of a number of Dundee students who invaded the St. Andrews' rugby pitch during a match between St. Andrews and the Orange Free State to protest against Apartheid. The same year, Robertson expressed his opposition to proposed cuts by the government in student grants, by organising a 24-hour work-in by students in the university library.

Robertson went on to partake in a political career in the Labour Party. His roles include being a Member of Parliament (1978-1999), Member of the House of Lords (2000), Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland (1993-1997), Secretary of State for Defence (1997-1999), and the 10th Secretary General of NATO (1999-2003).

He has received numerous honours for his time in the political sector.

Lillian Flannagan

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  • 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.

Laura Adam

  • Person
  • fl 1962-2004

Laura (Fleming) Adam came to the University of Dundee in 1962 to work in the new and exciting research area of renal failure and its causes and consequences. Initially she was based at Maryfield Hospital and then at Ninewells working mainly with Dr W.K. Stewart and latterly with Dr I. Henderson. Her initial training was in chemistry/biochemistry and she developed a major interest in the problems of patients with renal impairment and subsequently renal failure. As the management of renal failure improved she became an authority on the complications patients suffered. In particular the team made major advances in the problems of handling of aluminium, iron and magnesium. These studies resulted in many practical improvements in long term care. Her interest in and research with erythropoietin resulted in major gains in patient physical and mental well-being in the long term.

Adam developed and stimulated many other interests for the University and the hospital. Particularly, she had a passion for medical history and was responsible for setting up a Medical History Museum committee mainly composed of renal services staff members. Using this committee she brought together artefacts from all the Departments in Ninewells and assiduously catalogued them for future display. She obtained funds for the purchase of glass cases and set up the display facilities in the medical school foyer, in the main hall of the Ninewells hospital and in the hospital library. Rotation of her well-documented displays occurred every few months and was a highlight of the calendar year. Adam was the First Honorary Curator of the Medical History Museum.

In addition, Adam developed a major interest in medical related art, organising special displays and encouraging the donation of art to enliven the walls and public areas of Ninewells hospital. Perhaps her most important contribution was the tapestry hanging in the medical school foyer, designed in collaboration with the Dundee & East of Scotland Embroiderers Guild and depicting the medicines and therapies of yesteryear. She also planned and executed various plantings in the grounds of several of the local hospitals. Her last work related to the life and times of Dundee doctor David Kinloch and his capture and imprisonment by the Spanish inquisition. The results were published in The Innes Review in 2002. Source: http://www.app.dundee.ac.uk/pressoffice/contact/2004/april/obituaries.html

Kevin McGrath

  • Person
  • 1951-
Kevin McGRATH was born in southern China in 1951 and was educated in England and Scotland (graduated from DJCAD in c 1973; he has lived and worked in France, Greece, and India. Presently he is an associate of the Department of South Asian Studies and poet laureate at Lowell House, Harvard University. Publications include, Fame (1995), Lioness (1998), Maleas (2002), The Sanskrit Hero (2004), Flyer (2005), Comedia (2008), Stri (2009), Jaya (2011), Supernature (2012), Heroic Krsna and Eroica (2013), In The Kacch and Windward (2015), Arjuna Pandava and Eros (2016), Raja Yudhisthira (2017), Bhisma Devavrata (2018), Vyasa Redux (2019), Song Of The Republic (2020), Fame and On Friendship (forthcoming, 2022), Causality And Preliterate Song (in progress). McGrath lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his family.

Kennedy McConnell

  • Person
  • fl 1941 -d2008
McConnell served n the RAF as an electrical engineer from 1941-1946. He was a member of the technical team that helped to break the German ENIGMA codes. He died on April 20th 2008 at his home in Victoria Road, West Ferry, Dundee.

Kate Stewart Fraser

  • Person
  • 1886-1974

Kate Stewart Fraser was born in Annfield Street, Dundee, the daughter of John Fraser. She was educated at Morgan Academy and Harris Academy and then University College, Dundee (which she attended 1905-1910) and was awarded an honours MA by the University of St Andrews in 1909. She had served as a pupil teacher at Hill Street School and later taught at Harris Academy, Dundee.

During the Great War Kate emigrated to Canada where she married her fiancé Thomas Willock (Tom) Scott, an accountant from Wormit. They had two children Kathryn, known as Kay, a French teacher, and Thomas Stewart, known as Stewart. Stewart Scott also became a teacher and died on 29th March 2006 in Toronto. He was survived by his second wife Maia and his three children.

Kate died in Toronto.

Karen Tosh

  • Person
  • 1992-
Karen Tosh was born in Glasgow. She studied nursing at University of Dundee 1992-1995, She both trained and worked in Ninewells Hospital and went on to become a Lecturer In Health at University of Dundee. After a period working elsewhere, Karen returning to work with the School of Nursing in 2022.

Joseph Millar

  • Person
  • 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.

Joseph Klein

  • Person
  • fl 1996-
Klein composed ''the road in its unfoldings' was between April 1996 and August 1997 for Eugene Corporon and the North Texas Wind Symphony, which premiered the work at the University of North Texas on 26 February 1998. The work was supported in part by grants from the University of North Texas and the American Music Center.
The composer describes the work as 'essentially a passacaglia in twenty-one variations. Unlike the Baroque model, however, the subject is frequently obscured and distorted (metrically, registrally, etc.), often beyond recognition, although it is presented in its entirety within each and every variation. Although the work is not serial, the subject itself consists of two 11-tone rows derived from the opening four pitches of the second movement of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms (C-Eb-B-D), which is presented in inversion as the first four notes of the subject; the remainder of the subject is generated from this opening four-note cell, and is made up entirely of major and minor thirds and sixths. The complete statement of the subject consists of two seven-measure phrases of eleven notes each; the second phrase is related to the first by retrograde-inversion, pivoting around the tritone Bb/E. This seven-measure phrase structure is reflected throughout the twenty-one variations, each of which is either seven, fourteen, twenty-one, or twenty-eight measures long. The conceptual model for this work is the landmark book On Growth and Form (1917) by Scottish naturalist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948). In this book, Thompson elegantly described the structural relationships between various organic forms through mathematical paradigms and processes (e.g., Cartesian graphs, algebraic formulae), providing an alternative approach to that of Charles Darwin (e.g., The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man) by emphasizing physical laws and mechanics over natural selection in the development of various biological forms. The transformations and relationships explored by Thompson in this book formed the conceptual and structural basis of the present work, the title of which is derived from the poem “Volunteers” by Alice Fulton (Sensual Math, 1995), part of a sequence that draws upon genetics and evolution as an integral part of its subject matter. The titular line is part of a series of metaphors for the evolutionary process: But evolution is a fugue without finale. News that stays news. The road in its unfoldings. The twenty-one variations are linked by a chain of temporal modulations organized symmetrically, with the first and final variations serving as introduction and conclusion: the first ten variations are linked in such a way as to produce a gradual, non-linear accelerando (from MM 40 to MM 200), while the final ten variations reverse the process (returning to MM 40 at the conclusion). Each half of the work is also characterized by a gradually ascending ambitus, beginning in the lowest register of the ensemble and concluding in the highest register. Although this process is clearly manifested in the first half of the work, the registral trajectory in the second half follows a less direct path, becoming more erratic as the work progresses. The central variation (XI) acts as a fulcrum in this structure: the sudden and dramatic change in tempo, register, and overall character result in a sense of repose and reflection before the process resumes. As a way of elucidating this process, there is imbedded within the structure a series of relationships between the variations in the first half of the work and those in the second half (as illustrated below): for example, Variation XVIII is simply a reworking of Variation IV with the addition of woodwinds and percussion; the two percussion variations (X and XII) that flank the central variation are structurally identical, the differences being almost exclusively timbral (the former is for ringing metals, the latter for wood and membrane instruments); elements of Variation VI reappear throughout Variation VII, and again in Variation VIII (which itself is a composite of three variations — VI, IX, and XVII — representing past, present, and future). Variations are also grouped to form larger structural units: e.g., Variation I through III function as an individual section; transitions between variations differ significantly, some being rather subtle (e.g., between Variations IX and X), others quite abrupt (e.g., between Variations III and IV). Each variation is also presented as an homage to a different twentieth-century composer, as indicated by the initials at the end of each variation in the score. While some of these references may be readily apparent, most are rather subtle, even elusive. In any case, it is has not been the composer’s intention to represent the dedicatees through stylistic imitation or overt musical appropriation, but rather to acknowledge significant musical influences.'

Joseph Johnston Lee

  • Person
  • 1876-1949
Joseph Johnston Lee was a journalist, poet and artist, best known for his war poetry. Born in Dundee in 1876, he was the grandson of Sergeant David Lee, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars. At the age 14 Joseph Lee left school and began work in the office of a local solicitor. He found this work to be dull and eventually took a job as a steamship's stoker, making a number of sketches during his voyages. In 1904 he was employed as an artist in London drawing cartoons for the Tariff Reform League, subsequently becoming a newspaper artist. In 1906 he returned to Dundee and started to produce edit, and write for several local periodicals including The City Echo and The Piper O' Dundee. In 1909 he became a member of staff at the firm of John Leng & Co. and was soon regularly contributing poetry to their People's Journal, a publication which he eventually edited. In 1914 he joined the 4th Battalion of the Black Watch. Two books of his war poems and sketches, Ballads of Battle and Work-a-Day Warriors were published while he was at the Front. In 1917 he became a second lieutenant in the 10th Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps and later that year he was captured near Cambrai. His experiences while a prisoner in camps at Karlsruhe and Beeskow are described in his book A Captive at Carlsruhe. In 1924 Lee married Miss Dorothy Barrie, a well-known viola player. The couple went to Epsom and Lee became sub-editor on the News Chronicle. After his retirement in 1944 he returned to Dundee, where he died in 1949. Lee's other published works include poems, Tales O' Our Town, and a short play Fra Lippo Lippi.

Johnston Forbes-Roberston

  • Person
  • 1853-1937
Johnston Forbes-Roberston was an English actor whose portrayal of Hamlet was considered by many, including Bernard Shaw, to be the finest of his generation, and he wrote the part of Caesar in 'Caesar and Cleopatra' specifically for Forbes-Roberston, with the part of Cleopatra played by Gertrude Elliott, who was also Forbes-Robertson's wife. Forbes-Robertson had previously toured Shaw's play 'The Devil's Disciple' in the lead role. Forbes-Robertson also brought 'Caesar and Cleopatra' to the Shubert Theatre in New York in 1913, as manager of Forbes-Robertson Repertory.

John William Kimber

  • Person
  • 1875-1918
John William Kimber was born on the 21st of December 1875, in Portsmouth. Little information is known about his early life, apart from that one of his siblings was called Robert Percy Kimber, and their parents were from the London area.
John W. Kimber served in the Royal Navy from 24th July 1891 to 31st December 1905. He began as a volunteer and left the Navy with the rank of Petty Officer of the 1st class. Kimber married Ada Jane McKone in Islington around 1903 and they moved to 5 Panmure Place in Broughty Ferry around 1906. The couple had three daughters - one of whom was called Edith - and one son named John (known as Jack) Kimber.
Kimber had trained as an Instructor in Physical Training in Portsmouth in 1904, and achieved his Educational Institute of Scotland certificate in November 1906. He came to work at the University College Dundee for five years as Superintendent of the Fleming Gymnasium. He also worked for the Dundee School Board and the Voluntary Schools of the City.
Kimber enlisted in the army for the First World War. He became a Lieutenant in the 4th/1st Battalion of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). In his training for the war he attended the Grenadier School of Instruction at Scone Camp, and also attended the Northern Command School of Instruction. John William Kimber died at Givenchy, on the 11th of May 1918, aged 42. He is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery in Pas-de-Calais, France.

John T Symington

  • Person
  • 1930-2015
John T Symington was a student at Dundee College of Art 1948-1952 where he graduated with the Diploma in Design & Crafts. He then did National Service before joining staff at Valentine's as a typographer in 1954. Symington retired in 1994, just a year before the firm closed after being taken over by Hallmark. John and Helen Symington were married in 1959.

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.

John Iball

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  • 1907-21 January 1993

John Iball was born in Hasland, Derbyshire. He attended University College, Bangor from where he graduated with a first class degree in physics in 1928.

After a year doing a teaching diploma, he took an MSc in 1930 and a PhD in 1932 in the study of crystal structures by X-ray. Iball then went to the Royal Institution in London where he worked under Sir William Bragg focusing on X-ray studies of organic compounds. This led him to study the molecular structure of cancer producing aromatic compounds and to an interest in carcinogenicity.

He joined the research staff of the Royal Cancer Hospital in London in 1934 and his contribution was recognised by the award of a DSc (Wales) in 1939. The following year Iball joined the team working on rocket science for the Ministry of Supply then, after the war, moved to Port Sunlight to work for Unilever.

In 1948 he was appointed a fellow at University College, Dundee where he was to remain until he retired. He lectured in the physics and chemistry departments and in 1969 was appointed Senior Gibb Fellow of the British Empire Cancer Campaign.

Iball was keen to share his enthusiasm for science with people outside the academic community. He formed the Tayside and Fife Branch of the British Association and was always willing to help local industries with scientific problems. After he retired in 1974 he continued to be active in these areas and to publish the results of his ongoing research. Iball died in Dundee.

John Hamblin

  • Person
  • fl 1969-fl 2018
John Hamblin studied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Dundee. As an undergraduate he lived in Belmont and Peterson Hall student accommodation.

John Fraser

  • Person
  • 1851-1937
John Fraser was born in Arbroath on 7 November 1851. He was the son of Douglas Fraser who established Douglas Fraser and Sons in Arbroath. He married Jessie Janes Scott 'Janet' and had five children. He died in Arbroath on 23 November 1937.

John Edie More

  • Person
  • 1886-1977
John Edie More was born in Farnley Tyas, near Huddersfield, June 8th 1886. He made these notes when he was working as a civil servant in one of the Ministries in London, when he was 23 or 24. Mr More died in April 1977.
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