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- 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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- 1898-1973
Ronald Buchanan McCallum was born in Paisley. A British historian, he was a fellow, then the Master of Pembroke College,Oxford, where he taught Modern History and Politics. He was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws in honor of his chairmanship of the Academic Advisory Committee which examined and supported the founding of University of Dundee in 1967
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- 1935-2022
Anna MacDonald was born in Dundee, the eldest of six children. She was educated at Rockwell Primary School and Rockwell Secondary School, then worked for a number of companies in Dundee, including Watson and Philip and Burndept-Vidor. Anna also worked at the University of Dundee, where she was the operator of the first word processer the University used.
A prolific and award winning poet, Anna MacDonald produced several collections of verse, and was also the author of booklets about old Dundee. Much of her poetry relates to Dundee and its culture. Her poem 'Oor Wullie' was widely used in conjunction with the Oor Wullie Bucket Trail in Dundee in 2016 and Oor Wullie's Big Bucket Trail in 2019, while her poem 'Adele Penguin' was been used to promote Maggie's Penguin Parade in Dundee in 2018. Her poetry has been used in schools and material produced by Verdant Works. Anna also translated the Japanese poem Furusato into English for the Nagano Winter Olympic Games in 1998.
Anna MacDonald was also recognised for her contributions to traditional music, and for many years performed as part of the 'Temperance Two Showband' with her second husband Clifford Inglis, who died in 2018. She was also the author of an unpublished autobiography which gives a frank account of her life and provides an invaluable insight into working class life in twentieth century Dundee. A year before his death, Cliff Ingles wrote his autobiography "I Belonged to Glasgow" which includes some of Anna's poems.
Anna died in 2022.
Examples of Anna MacDonald's poetry can be found at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/people/anna-macdonald
Cliff Inglis is featured on this podcast from the 2017 Dundee Literary Festival: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/literarydundeepodcast/episodes/2017-10-17T22_00_00-07_00
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- 1949-
Born in St. Andrews (Craigton) 1949 and most associated with Auchtermuchty, Fife. He was one of Scotland's finest traditional singers and won several competitions. He was a janitor at the University.
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- 10 July 1919 - 9 March 2012
James Paris Duguid was born in Bo'ness. He was educated at Shirley House, Blackheath, London then Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1942.
While studying at Edinburgh University, Duguid unlocked the key to how penicillin works. His findings were published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal in 1946 but because they did not reach a wider audience, he did not get the credit he deserved. This was followed by a host of other scientific research, including his ground-breaking finding when he was first to identify one of the most virulent mechanisms for transmitting the bacterial infections E.coli and salmonella.
From 1944 to 1962 Duguid worked was a Senior Lecturer and Reader at University of Edinburgh before becoming Professor of Bacteriology at University of St Andrews (1963-1967) and then at University of Dundee (1967-1984). Duguid died in Inverness aged 92
While studying at Edinburgh University, Duguid unlocked the key to how penicillin works. His findings were published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal in 1946 but because they did not reach a wider audience, he did not get the credit he deserved. This was followed by a host of other scientific research, including his ground-breaking finding when he was first to identify one of the most virulent mechanisms for transmitting the bacterial infections E.coli and salmonella.
From 1944 to 1962 Duguid worked was a Senior Lecturer and Reader at University of Edinburgh before becoming Professor of Bacteriology at University of St Andrews (1963-1967) and then at University of Dundee (1967-1984). Duguid died in Inverness aged 92
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- 1918-1976
Oskar Bolik was born in Bytom, Poland and after escaping from Poland during the Second World War joined the Polish Free Army in Scotland. After the War he moved to Eastbourne but later settled in Dundee c 1949. He held various jobs but after a spell as a bus driver he began working as a chauffer for Dundee City Council, eventually becoming the Lord Provost's personal chauffer. He worked for William Fitzgerald, Tom Moore and Charles Farquhar.
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She was a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the University and retired in December 2008
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Dr Martyn Ward is Senior Lecturer in the School of Learning and Teaching at the College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
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Pearl Mitchell was a former secretary of the Department of Physics. She worked at the University for 40 years
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- fl 1914
William Taylor Ramsay was born in Forfar, but moved to Dundee when he was very young. He worked for Baxter Bros, before becoming caretaker at Arthurstone Branch library. In 1914 he became caretaker at University College, Dundee. His youngest brother served in the Great War and may have been a casualty.
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- 1929-2013
Joan Primrose Scott Ferguson, born 1929, died 2 October 2013 at Laverockbank House Nursing Home, Edinburgh where she had lived since removing from her home at Howard Place;
The Ferguson family were members of the Glasite Church
The Ferguson family were members of the Glasite Church
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- fl 1860s
Alexander Hannay, portioner, had property in Helensburgh and owned the Prince of Wales Theatre, later known as the Grand Theatre in Cowcaddens, Glasgow. He was father to James Ballantyne Hannay, chemist and innovator. The Prince of Wales Music Hall opened in 1867 and was one of Glasgow's oldest music halls. Following a fire in 1869, a new theatre was built on the site and in 1881 it was refurbished and called the Grand Theatre. It had a capacity of 2,030 and film shows began regularly from 1915. The Grand was taken over in 1909 by Moss Empires Ltd, but was again destroyed by fire in 1989. The New Grand Picture House was then built in its place.
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- 1911-1977
Wrote 'The Browning Version' and many other plays. The film for which these were scripts was 'The VIPs', also known as 'Hotel International', with an all-star cast including Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. It was released in 1963.
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- 1933 -
Gordon B Corbet was born in Dundee and attended Morgan Academy. He graduated from University College, Dundee with a BSc first in Zoology and was a post-graduate student between September 1955 to August 1958 in the Department of Natural History at University College Dundee/Queen's College, then at college of St Andrews University. His thesis, 'The distribution, variation and ecology of voles in the Scottish Highlands', was submitted in late 1959 and he graduated PhD in June 1960; supervisor Dr Fred Waterhouse, external examiner Dr Mick Southern, Oxford. Corbet's career included an assistant lectureship at Sir John Cass College, London and offices with the British Museum. On his retirement in 1992 he returned to Scotland
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Harry Duffus was the father of George Duffus, entertainer, and a relation of Innes Duffus, Archivist to the Nine Trades.
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- 1929-2010
Dr Stuart Watson McGowan was born in 1929, Bothwell, Glasgow and died in 2010, Dundee aged 80. Dr McGowan married Mabel Wilson in 1966, Dundee.
In 1969, Dr McGowan was a lecturer in Anaesthesia at the University of Dundee and from 1972 became a Senior Lecturer until 1992.
Dr McGowan was Honorary Secretary of the North-East of Scotland Society of Anaesthetists (1964-66). Council member of The Scottish Society of the History of Medicine (1990-92).
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Catherine (Cathy) Pennington Paunov is a native of Washington, DC. Following graduation from high school in 1968, she participated in an American Institute for Foreign Study program that summer at the University of Dundee. Two of her favourite classes were History of the Highlands and Archaeology.
Cathy holds the BS degree from the University of Maryland in government and politics, the MS degree in the Administration of Justice from the American University in Washington, and the MLS and JD degrees from Brigham Young University. From 1972-1974, she served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Italy. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas. Since graduation from BYU, she has lived in Texas and New York, where she met her husband, Zlatko Paunov, a sculptor, originally from Bulgaria.
Now semi-retired, they reside in Florida and New York, depending on season. Cathy continues some pro bono legal work with non-profit organizations, as well as substitute teaching at local schools.
Professor Alan Chalmers Lendrum
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- 1907-1994
AC Lendrum was born in Midlothian and brought up in Brechin. He was educated at Glasgow High School and Ardrossan Academy then attended Glasgow University from where he graduated MA, MD and BSc.
In 1933 he was appointed assistant to Sir Robert Muir at Western Infirmary, Glasgow, and later became a lecturer in pathology at Glasgow University. From 1947 to 1967 Lendrum was professor of pathology at St Andrews University and became professor at Dundee when the University was created there in 1967.
Lendrum served on several boards and committees in the University until he retired in 1972. Lendrum was a well respected academic and was visiting professor at Yale in 1960. His experiments with staining tissues, in particular, made a significant contribution to the scientific study of disease. An interest in technical matters led to his honorary membership and presidency of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences. A member of many national and international organisations, he was a Founder Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. He was Chairman of the Governors of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art from 1975-1977.
His first wife, Elizabeth died in 1983. He died at Balla Wray Nursing Home by Windermere on 2 January 1994 at the age of eighty-seven and was survived by his second wife, Dr Ann Sandison.
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- 1929-2022
Innes Albert Duffes was the son of Alfred Duffes. He married in 1951 and they had two daughters. He ran family business of Alfred Duffus Motor Sales & Service 1954-1979. During that time the company was agent for Isetta, Triumph, Volkswagen and Opel cars.
Duffus was a member of many Dundee committees with a particular interest in the Nine Incorporated Trades of which he was Archivist. He was also Deacon of the Hammerman Craft and President of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Dundee. The Innes Duffus Lecture series was inaugurated in 2019 at the University of Dundee
Duffus was a member of many Dundee committees with a particular interest in the Nine Incorporated Trades of which he was Archivist. He was also Deacon of the Hammerman Craft and President of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Dundee. The Innes Duffus Lecture series was inaugurated in 2019 at the University of Dundee
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- 1928-2011
Tom Craigie was educated at St Joseph's Primary and St John's Secondary Schools. He obtained an early apprenticeship in electrical engineering with Drake & Gorham. After serving his two years of National Service he settled into the wholesale electrical trade with Wood & Cairns in King Street, Dundee. Within a few years he became Branch Manager and in 1958 he and his family relocated to Carnoustie. When Wood & Cairns was later acquired by the HAT Group, Tom was appointed Company Director and assumed overall control of their Scottish operations.
In 1983 he set up his own electrical wholesale business, TC Components based in Carnoustie. Though the business was successful they decided to wind it up in 1988 and Tom elected to lend his business experience to David Bottoms in his Ironmongery shop in Peter Street. Tom finally retired around 1996 to spend more time with his wife Ella who had by this time fallen into ill health; she died three years later.
His intense interest in the Dundee and Newtyle Railway started around 2005 following a family discussion. His research gathered momentum and on one occasion he was told by one particular expert around 2009 that, having pieced together so many previously unconnected strands of the story, he was probably by now the foremost authority on the subject. Tom felt strongly that the Dundee and Newtyle Railway was not afforded its proper place in history and that it was ahead of its time in many ways, preceding less innovative but more heralded developments in other parts of the country. He was also keen to highlight the qualities of Charles Landale whom he thought had not been appropriately recognised for his achievements.
The intended outcome of Tom's research was to have been twofold: a book chronicling the history of the railway from conception to demise, detailing Landale's role in particular; and a DVD featuring dramatization of some of the key events during the life of the railway. Due to begin filming some key sequences in the summer of 2011 he tragically passed away suddenly and unexpectedly shortly before this. The research notes are handwritten transcriptions of documents held in a variety of repositories, mainly the University of Dundee Archive Services, Dundee City Archives, Dundee Central Library and the National Archives of Scotland.
In 1983 he set up his own electrical wholesale business, TC Components based in Carnoustie. Though the business was successful they decided to wind it up in 1988 and Tom elected to lend his business experience to David Bottoms in his Ironmongery shop in Peter Street. Tom finally retired around 1996 to spend more time with his wife Ella who had by this time fallen into ill health; she died three years later.
His intense interest in the Dundee and Newtyle Railway started around 2005 following a family discussion. His research gathered momentum and on one occasion he was told by one particular expert around 2009 that, having pieced together so many previously unconnected strands of the story, he was probably by now the foremost authority on the subject. Tom felt strongly that the Dundee and Newtyle Railway was not afforded its proper place in history and that it was ahead of its time in many ways, preceding less innovative but more heralded developments in other parts of the country. He was also keen to highlight the qualities of Charles Landale whom he thought had not been appropriately recognised for his achievements.
The intended outcome of Tom's research was to have been twofold: a book chronicling the history of the railway from conception to demise, detailing Landale's role in particular; and a DVD featuring dramatization of some of the key events during the life of the railway. Due to begin filming some key sequences in the summer of 2011 he tragically passed away suddenly and unexpectedly shortly before this. The research notes are handwritten transcriptions of documents held in a variety of repositories, mainly the University of Dundee Archive Services, Dundee City Archives, Dundee Central Library and the National Archives of Scotland.
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- 1967-1968
A collaboration between several students residing in Airlie Hall, including Alan Craxford, Harry Brooks, Rick Sugden and Robert Peacock produced 'The Airlie Morning Post' (TAMP), a newspaper offering news mainly related to Airlie Hall of Residence from the students' point of view. Ten issues were produced during the first session of the University of Dundee, 1967-1968.
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- 1862-1948
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.
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.
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