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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

James Clark Quinn Stewart was born in Dundee, where he and his sister was brought up by his mother. He attended Harris Academy, leaving school aged 15 then worked at various jobs in Brechin to where the family had moved.
Aged 21, he moved to Arbroath and worked as a proofreader for a local paper, progressing to news reporter. He was sacked after refusing to doorstep a family caught up in a divorce scandal.
Moving back to Dundee, Jim went to college to qualify for entrance to university. He graduated in 1984 from the University of Dundee in English Literature, then gained his Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 1990. From 1987 to his death, Jim was employed at UoD, initially on teaching and research contracts, becoming a permanent staff member after his success with the Mlitt in Writing Practice & Study module.
Jim had always written poetry, but work on what became the only publication of his own body of poems 'This' coincided with his terminal illness. Jim Stewart died of cancer 24 July 2016
(Source: 'About Jim Stewart' by Jane Goldman in 'This', 2018)

James Rorie was 4 April 1838 in Arbroath and educated at Arbroath Academy. In 1855 he began studying at Edinburgh University as a medical student graduating in 1859 as a Doctor of Medicine. In the same year he also received a diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons. He then began working in the old Dundee Asylum and was appointed Superintendent in 1860. Throughout his life Dr Rorie was an important member of the Glasite Church and in 1872 married Margaret Baxter with whom he raised a family. He was later involved in the building of the new asylum at Westgreen, Liff which eventually became the Royal Dundee Liff Hospital. In 1891 Dr Rorie was appointed lecturer on Mental Diseases in the Medical Department at Dundee University College. He died in 1911.

Dr James F. Riley was born in Settle, Yorkshire. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where he graduated with Honours in 1935, obtaining his F.R.C.S.E. in 1938.
From 1939 to 1944 he was an assistant surgeon in the Scottish Emergency Medical Service, and later served as a surgical specialist commanding a mobile surgical unit in the Far East. On returning, he wrote his M.D. thesis "Experiments in Carcinogenesis 1939-1944".
In 1948 he obtained the Diploma in Medical Radiotherapy and was appointed as Consultant Radiotherapist at Dundee Royal Infirmary, and in 1950 became a reader in the Department of Radiotherapy.
From 1975-1977 Riley was a research fellow at The University of Dundee. Dr Riley's research was devoted to the study of the Mast Cell, discovering the origin of histamine, work that has stimulated further research world-wide.
Recognising his international significance, Dr Riley was appointed as a visiting Professor at the University of Montreal where he was awarded the Claude Bernard Medal, as well as being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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.

While a comics PhD student, Hailey Austin worked as an intern in the University of Dundee Archive in 2018. She created the concept for and then edited the Archive Anthology comic as an output for her work in the archive and to promote the comics collection. Hailey teaches Film, Literature, and Comics. and has published in several academic journals/books, and by DC Thomson and UniVerse.
She is currently (2022) Research and Development Fellow at Abertay University.

Dr Elena Gill was born in Spain, 1902, where her father was a mining engineer and trained at Glasgow University. She became the first woman GP in Glasgow, at Springburn. Other members of her family lived in England (her brother worked for a motor company in the Midlands). She retired to St Andrews and died there in 1996.

Carney was the first to receive a PhD by public output. His research specialism is the Doric dialect of NE Scotland. He has contributed to television programmes in the UK and the US. He is currently (2006) a lecturer on Hotel Tourism and Retail Management at Robert Gordon University.

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.