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Professor Roger Miller

  • Person
  • fl c1970-
Professor Roger Miller was a graduate of Glasgow School of Art and after working as a freelancer began teaching in first in Wales then came to DJCAD between 1974 and 1984. At DJCAD he built up the silversmithing and jewellery courses, gaining plaudits and a solid reputation throughout the UK and overseas. Miller established the course's Diploma and Degree awards which are still in place today.

Dr David Dobson

  • Person
  • fl 1984-
Researcher and author, specialising in genealogy. He is Honorary Research Fellow. at the University of St Andrews and the recognized authority on the Scottish origins of American colonists. His list of publications exceeds 100 books. Many focus on connections between Scots who went abroad and their motherland. In addition to the immigrants themselves, he has also prepared books on the ships, shipmasters, merchants, whalers, and mariners involved in maritime trades.

Bert Barnett

  • Person
  • fl 1964-
Bert Barnett studied architecture at the Art College, Dundee, from 1964-1970, repeating years two and five of his course. Bert has spent most of his career as an architectural assistant, working with Ric Russell, partner in Nicoll Russell architects, who features in many of the photographs, and with local authorities. Latterly, he worked for an architect's firm in Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
'Sleepy People', the subject of the photographs, were a college band made up of architecture students who played at Art College ' hops'.

Mrs Jane Mercer

  • Person
  • fl 1977-1981
Jane Mercer was employed as a part-time nursery nurse at Dundee Royal Infirmary. She lived at Muirhead of Liff

Dr Alastair R. Ross

  • Person
  • 1941-
Dr Alastair R. Ross, one of the leading figurative sculptors in the UK, was born in Perth in 1941. Between 1960-1966 he studied at DJCAD as well as studying across Europe. He originally planned to be a painter, but his admiration for Scott Sutherland, one of his instructors, led Ross towards sculpture. Between 1966-2003, Ross was tutor and then lecturer in Fine Art at DJCAD, University of Dundee, and has also lectured in the USA, Malta and elsewhere in Scotland.
Ross has many professional memberships, including fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and has won many awards including the Society's Sir Otto Beit Medal. He is an Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy, an R.G.I., an Hon. Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland and Honorary President of the Scottish Artists' Benevolent Fund.
His works embrace a wide variety of artistic concepts, scales, media and contexts, although, the human figure is at the core of Ross's work. His influences include Donatello, Ivan Mestrovich, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Fritz Wotruba and Auguste Rodin.

Margaret Fraser Christie

  • Person
  • 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.

Frank McDermott

  • Person
  • 1942-
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.

David J MacDonald

  • Person
  • 1857-1940
David J MacDonald founded the engineering company, DJ MacDonald in 1892, initially at works in Dens Road, moving after three years to South Saint Roque's Works.

Christopher Dingwall

  • Person
  • fl 1972-
Christopher Dingwall is a landscape historian, with a particular interest in gardens and designed landscapes, working mainly across Scotland.
He graduated BSc Geography, University College, London in 1972 and was awarded his MA in Conservation Studies from University of York in 1988

Sir William Nicoll

  • Person
  • 1927-2016

Born in Dundee, Sir William Nicoll was an only child. Growing up in a tenement, his father was a joiner. He attended Morgan Academy, then won a scholarship to University College, Dundee, which was then part of the University of St Andrews.
Nicoll passed the civil service exams and moved to London in 1949 to join the Board of Trade. Married Helen Morison in 1954, at the same time he became Editor of The Reel, a post he held in 1954 and 1955. The next year he was posted to Calcutta as trade commissioner, cutting short his editorship. Within ten years he had risen to become private secretary to Douglas Jay, the Labour heavyweight whom Harold Wilson had appointed president of the Board of Trade.
From there Nicoll was seconded to the Foreign Office and served 20 years as one of the UK's senior men in Brussels. He became familiar with the French language and had a narrow escape from an IRA letter bomb while there.

Nicoll rose to become Director General of the Council of the European Communities, and was knighted in 1992. In retirement, he lectured, edited the European Business Journal, wrote books on the European Union and advised candidate countries hoping to join it.

Sir William was a lifelong teetotaller, and keen Scottish country dancer.

Dr Kenneth Baxter

  • Person
  • b. 1982-
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.

Wendy Barrie

  • Person
  • fl 2016
Wendy Barrie is the niece of Dorothy Lee (nee Barrie), the wife of poet & journalist, Joseph Lee.

EA Urquhart

  • Person
  • 1879-?
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.

Professor Chris Murray

  • Person
Professor Chris Murray is the first Professor of Comic Studies in the world. He created the Comic Studies program at the University of Dundee and lectures in Comics, Film, and English. He personal comics collection is so large, he built a shed in his garden to house it.

Professor Michael Spens

  • Person
  • 1939-2014
Michael Spens, born 24 October, 1939, in Windsor, taught at the School of Architecture, Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee. He was interested in the architecture of the inter-war period and edited 'Studio International'. In the 1990s, Spens worked with Finnish and Russian authorities on a restoration project on the Alvar Aalto library, a shared interest with Philip Morton Shand. He was working on a book about Shand, whom he felt had not received the recognition he deserved, when he died 28 March, 2014, in Dundee

Philip Morton Shand

  • Person
  • 1888-1960
Philip Morton Shand was born in 1888 and died in Lyon in 1960. Architecture critic, journalist and food writer, Shand was a co-founder of MARS, the Modern Architectural Research Group and was said to be instrumental in bringing modern architecture into Britain. He was a translator and correspondent of Walter Gropius and a friend of Le Corbusier. He wrote at least 80 articles which were published in The Concrete Way. He also set up a company Finmar with Geoffrey Boumphrey, to import Alvar Aalto's Finnish furniture designs to the UK.
Having been a key proponent of the modern movement, by the 1950s Shand was disillusioned by the style of architecture he had once so favoured.
Shand was married four times having 3 children and 1 step-daughter. Notably, his grandaughter is Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Another of his daughters, Elspeth, married Geoffrey Howe to become Baroness Howe of Idlicote.

Dr Hugh Pincott

  • Person
  • b1941 -
Hugh Pincott read Chemistry at Queen's College, between 1960 and 1967, and in 1968 was the first student to receive a PhD from the University of Dundee. Whilst at Dundee, Pincott was heavily involved with the student charities campaigns and set up a publishing house from where the student newspapers and first University student handbooks were printed.
In the early 1960s, Pincott was senior student at Airlie Hall and was later elected president of the SRC. In August 1966, Pincott was the first person to drive over the newly-opened Tay Road Bridge.

Sheena Wellington

  • Person
  • b1944-
Sheena Wellington is Scotland's foremost traditional Scottish singer. Born and bred in Dundee, Sheena's career has seen her perform at the opening ceremony of the first Scottish parliament in 1999. A proud Dundonian, Sheena is active in the community, keeping the Dundee dialect and voice alive through singing. She is heavily involved with the Wighton Collection and Loadsa Weemin' Singin, a local singing group.

Alex S Davie

  • Person
  • fl 1930s-1940s
Alex S Davie and George H Smith 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.
Alex Davie was a doctor then changed his career to dentistry. Family say the change came after a serious incident before the War which influenced the change to dentistry. Alex had the dental practice at 121 Nethergate, taken over from Mrs Clunie's Grandfather, also a dentist.

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.

Hugh Douglas Ross

  • Person
  • fl 1940-1973
Hugh Douglas Ross was educated at Morgan Academy in Dundee and graduated from the Conjoint Medical School, University College, Dundee (University of St Andrews), in 1940,
He served with the R.N.V.R. during the war, after which he had appointments at St. Andrews (1946-1947), Oxford University Nuffield Hospital (1947-1948), St. Albans Hospital (1948-1950) and the Royal College of Surgeons, London (1950-1952).
In 1953 he, with his family, emigrated to Southern Rhodesia, having been recruited as consultant histologist for the shortly to be created Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. From 1953 to 1963 he provided histological, pathology and forensic services for the Southern Rhodesia region of the Federation.
In 1961 he received a phone call from Sir Roy Welensky, the first and last Prime Minister of the Federation, asking him to depart immediately for Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) where the wrecked remains of the airplane carrying the Secretary General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold, and 15 others had been found on the afternoon of 16 September, 1961. Dr Ross in company with an RAF pathologist, Dr. Stevens, performed post mortems on all the victims of the accident, including the one surviving UN guard, who died of his severe burns three days after the accident without regaining consciousness.
Following the intensive pathological examination Ross then travelled to England to complete the writing of the medical report on the accident with Dr. Stevens. Subsequently he appeared before the Federal Government Board of Enquiry and the UN enquiry into the cause and circumstances of the accident to both of which the medical report was presented.
He and his family moved to South Africa after the collapse of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and later, because of failing health, he returned to Britain with his wife, purchasing the village post office in Whitchurch, Bucks, where he was the postmaster until his death in 1973.

May Wilson Bowman

  • Person
  • fl 1927-1930
May Wilson Bowman, known as Maisie, attended University College, Dundee 1927-1930 graduating with an MA

James Carmichael

  • Person
  • 1776-1853
James Carmichael and his brother Charles (1782-1843) are widely regarded as pioneers of the engineering profession in Dundee. They were the sons of George Carmichael, a partner in the Glasgow Arms Bank, and who may have been a Glasite.
On their father's death they moved with their mother from Glasgow to Midlothian where James became apprenticed as a millwright to his maternal uncle. James then moved to work in a spinning works in Glasgow, while Charles, after an apprenticeship as an engineer, came to work in Dundee in 1805 entering into partnership with a Mr Taylor.
When Charles' partnership expired in 1810, James was persuaded to join him and together they established the engineering business, J & C Carmichael, in Dundee. The company would last for over a century and among many achievements produced early railway locomotives, the first steam engines for the Tay Ferry and developed and manufactured mill machinery.
James Carmichael was widely recognised as one of Scotland's leading engineers of the period and is commemorated by a statue in Dundee's Albert Square.
The Carmichaels were related to some other prominent figures in Dundee industry: James Carmichael's daughter Clementina married James Cox, Provost of Dundee, and head of Cox Brothers, while his daughter Margaret married Peter Carmichael of Arthurstone, a noted engineer and the managing director of Baxter Brothers. It is also possible that the James Carmichael was a direct descendent of John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford and potentially had a claim to succeed to the earldom on the death of the 6th Earl in 1817 which he chose not pursue.

James Walter Stewart Carmichael

  • Person
  • 1776-1853

James Walter Stewart Carmichael [known as Hamish], is the great-great-grandson of James Carmichael and the great-great-great-grandson of Charles Carmichael and has done extensive research into them and their family.

James Carmichael and his brother Charles (1782-1843) are widely regarded as pioneers of the engineering profession in Dundee. They were the sons of George Carmichael, a partner in the Glasgow Arms Bank, and who may have been a Glasite.
On their father's death they moved with their mother from Glasgow to Midlothian where James became apprenticed as a millwright to his maternal uncle. James then moved to work in a spinning works in Glasgow, while Charles, after an apprenticeship as an engineer, came to work in Dundee in 1805 entering into partnership with a Mr Taylor.
When Charles' partnership expired in 1810, James was persuaded to join him and together they established the engineering business, J & C Carmichael, in Dundee. The company would last for over a century and among many achievements produced early railway locomotives, the first steam engines for the Tay Ferry and developed and manufactured mill machinery.
James Carmichael was widely recognised as one of Scotland's leading engineers of the period and is commemorated by a statue in Dundee's Albert Square.
The Carmichaels were related to some other prominent figures in Dundee industry: James Carmichael's daughter Clementina married James Cox, Provost of Dundee, and head of Cox Brothers, while his daughter Margaret married Peter Carmichael of Arthurstone, a noted engineer and the managing director of Baxter Brothers. It is also possible that the James Carmichael was a direct descendent of John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford and potentially had a claim to succeed to the earldom on the death of the 6th Earl in 1817 which he chose not pursue.

John Berridge

  • Person
  • 1927-2010

Born in 1927 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, John Berridge was educated at Luton Grammar School. On leaving school he spent some time as an officer in the Ghurkas then as a forester and lab technician.

He completed a teacher training course in Winchester but after two years teaching, opted to study for a degree. Studying logic, English and philosophy at Birkbeck College, Berridge became involved in student politics, winning the presidency of the London University Union. He was then encouraged to begin a degree in politics and international relations at the London School of Economics, where he won the Beveridge Trophy for political debating.

After graduating, he taught first at Kingston College then moved to Dundee University where he specialised in international organisations, particularly the European Union. As Senior Lecturer, Berridge retired after 31 years in 1995, but retained his links with the University as honorary lecturer in contemporary European studies until 2006.

Berridge served in Ted Heath's shadow cabinet, sitting on the policy committee for Scottish devolution and was asked to write the Conservative party's draft devolution paper. Berridge himself was against completely devolved power for Scotland.

John Berridge married Margaret in 1960. They had two sons, Jonathan and Tim. In later years, he suffered from multiple sclerosis which curbed his enthusiasm for his pursuits of hillwalking, fishing, painting and birdwatching. Berridge also served as Justice of the Peace, and was active in the Association of University Teachers. He also relished political debate and termed himself a 'Tory Marxist'. Berridge died in Dundee 10 June 2010.
Source: John Berridge obituary, 'The Scotsman', p41, Friday 18 June 2010

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