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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.

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

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'.

Friends of Dundee University Botanic Garden

  • Corporate body
  • 1982-
The Friends of Dundee University Botanic Garden was established in 1982 as a voluntary society with charitable status. In March 1982 a Steering Committee was set up to draft the constitution. Its members were D.P. Thomson, L. Bisset, J.C. Hadden, H. Ingram, F. Millar and R. Seaton. The public inaugural meeting of the Society took place in June 1982. The Earl of Dalhousie became the Honorary President of the Friends. The first chairman of the Society was Dr. D.P. Thomson, succeeded by George L. Grant, David Hogarth, Andrew Morrison and Hugh Ingram.
The objectives were to support the development of the Garden, promote its activity as well as finance projects which could not be funded by the University. The Society's members organized regular events which included guided visits to the Garden, excursions, series' of talks on horticulture and plant sales. The Friends also published newsletters with articles on the Garden. In 2007 and 2008 the Society led the successful campaign against the planned closure of the Botanic Garden.
The Friends 'support and promote the development of the Garden, and assist in fund raising for projects that cannot properly be funded from University resources, especially projects related to the public use and enjoyment of the Garden'
Source: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/botanic/friends/ Accessed 2/9/2022

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.

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.

Robert F Knight

  • Person
  • fl 1973-
Robert Frederick Knight attended the University of Dundee from 1973 until 1977 and was President of the University of Dundee Scottish Nationalist Association. After graduating from the University of Dundee with an MA (Hons) in Politics he worked in Community Education and later as a self-employed handyperson. He is also Coordinator for the Scots Remembrance Society.

Professor Robert R Sturrock

  • Person
  • fl 1963-
Robert R Sturrock was a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Dundee. He is now retired.

Mary Lund

  • Person
  • fl 1970-1974
Mary Lund (nee Telfer) was a student at the University of Dundee from 1970-1974. She studied Social Sciences, residing in West Park Hall and Belmont Hall whilst a student.

Jean Leith

  • Person
Jean Leith was a member of the University of Dundee staff.
She is the great granddaughter of William Wilson, who served in the 2nd Battalion of the Scots Guards. Wilson was killed at Festurbert on 16th May 1915 aged 29 years old.

Thornton family

  • Family
  • 1720-1911
Rev James Small appointed Minister of the Church in Carmyllie in 1720, whose granddaughter, Agnes Small, became the wife of Robert Thornton.
Their son, William Thornton, was in business with the Sandeman family and he married Sibella Ann Sandeman in 1833. In 1855, they emigrated to Australia, settling in Ipswich, Queensland. William Thornton died there in 1878, and Sibella moved to Inverell, New South Wales where she died in 1888. Her youngest child, Mary Sandeman Thornton also died there in 1911.

Grant Morrison

  • Person
  • 1960-
Grant Morrison, MBE, is a Scottish comic book writer and playwright. He is known for his nonlinear narratives and countercultural leanings. He has also served as the editor-in-chief of Heavy Metal and currently operates as an adviser for the magazine. He is also the co-creator of the Syfy TV series Happy! starring Christopher Meloni and Patton Oswalt. Morrison is also an occasional actor, with his most recent appearance being a brief cameo as a news broadcaster in the 2017 horror comedy film 'Mom and Dad'.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Morrison

Professor Cyril Hilsum

  • Person
  • 1925-
Professor Cyril Hilsum is an engineer, physicist and academic. In 1943 he was accepted into University College London where we gained a BSc, then joined the Royal Naval Scientific Service in 1945, moving to the Admiralty Research Laboratory two years later. He was transferred to Services Electronic Research Laboratory and on to Royal Radar Establishment. His research on gallium arsenide in the 1960s, liquid crystals in the 1970s and high temperature semiconductors in the 1980s led to Professor Hilsum playing a major role in the early development of some of the key technologies which underpin life in the 21st century. He produced the first LCD pixel driven by amorphous silicon transistors which went on to form the basis of LCD screens we use today.

Rettie & Mitchell family

  • Family
  • 1895-
Annie Belle Rettie (known as Isabel) was born 29th June 1895 and died in October 1987. She married Robert William Mitchell. They had two children Alan Grant Mitchell and Annabell Mitchell (married name Luzzatto). Jennetta Winifred Rettie (known as Winnie) was born in 1899. No precise date of death is known but the family state she was more than 100 years old when she died.
Winnie married John Cargill Fraser and worked as a nurse during the First World War. The parents of Isabel and Winnie were William Cooper Rettie, 1852-1922, of William Low & Co. and Annie Low, 1855-1940, sister of William Low and Sir James Low. William Rettie was also the first chairman of the Dundee Dental Hospital & School in 1917. He purchased the house at 2 Park Place and had it adapted as a dental surgery as a memorial to his son, Philip, who was killed during the First World War.
Peter Mitchell is the nephew of Annabel Luzzatto and the son of Grant Mitchell

Ewan Dobie

  • Person
  • fl 2008-
Ewan Dobie is a joiner in the Dundee and Perthshire area

Dr Nicola Streeten

  • Person
  • fl 2009-
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

Dr Hailey Austin

  • Person
  • fl 2018-
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.

Tay Estuary Forum

  • Corporate body
  • 2005-
The Tay Estuary Forum brings together organisations and individuals with a common interest in the welfare and sustainable use of the Tay Estuary and adjacent coastline, from the River North Esk on the Angus coastline, to Fife Ness, including the Tay Estuary to its tidal limit at Scone. A Steering Group, comprising representatives from key organisations that operate within the region, meet regularly to manage the direction and progression of the work of the Forum, and a Secretariat based at the University of Dundee, takes care of the day-to-day business.
Forum discussions, which relate to various themes on coastal and marine management, range from Water Quality, Fishing, Sustainable Economic Development, Recreation, Nature Conservation and Education. The Forum hopes that through improved co-ordination and communication between these diverse interests and users, future conflicts within the coastal zone can be minimised and that management will progress towards a common vision for the coast of east central Scotland.
The TEF is currently funded by contributions from its Steering Group and Marine Scotland
Source: tayestuary.org.uk 09/08/2018

Professor Margaret Fairlie

  • Person
  • 1891-1963

Margaret Fairlie was born in Angus in 1891 and grew up at West Balmirmer Farm near Arbroath. In 1910 she matriculated at University College, Dundee to study at the Conjoint Medical School, marking the start of an association that would last most of the rest of her life. After graduating in 1915, she held various posts in Dundee, Perth, Edinburgh and Manchester, before returning to Dundee in 1919 to run a consultant practice for gynaecology, and started teaching at the Medical School the following year. In the mid 1920s Fairlie joined the staff of Dundee Royal Infirmary becoming head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1936. This appointment displeased at least one male colleague who felt he should have been appointed to the job. Famed for her hard work she was also honorary gynaecologist to Arbroath, Brechin, Montrose and Forfar infirmaries and attended cases throughout Angus and Perthshire

This promotion should have led to a speedy appointment as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, but moves to appoint her to this position were blocked by the University of St Andrews Court – partly due to on-going conflict between elements at St Andrews and Dundee and partly because of opposition to appointing a female professor. With the Directors of Dundee Royal Infirmary standing behind Fairlie and opinion in Dundee largely supportive of her, four years of impasse followed until the University Court finally granted her a chair in 1940. A popular figure with staff and students, she was noted for her warm hospitality. She retired in 1956, but retained a close connection with both the University and DRI.

In addition to her academic work she was involved in practical medicine delivering many babies and she once suggested that if they were laid out in a line they would stretch from Dundee to beyond Perth. Her work as a doctor also helped reduce Dundee's notoriously high infant mortality rate, and she was involved in the establishment of Dundee’s first ante-natal clinic. Following a visit to the Marie Curie Foundation in Paris in 1926 Fairlie developed a keen interest in the clinical use of radium. Thereafter she became a pioneer in its use in Scotland, employing it in the treatment of malignant gynaecological diseases. She also organised a follow up clinic for the patients she treated with radium, seeing some of them over the twenty years at the clinic she held at Dundee Royal Infirmary. She was much mourned in Dundee on her death in 1963 and was the subject of a number of glowing tributes.

Source: http://archives-records-artefacts.blogspot.com/2011/08/notable-university-figures-3-professor.html

Craig McNeil

  • Person
  • fl 2018-
Craig McNeil owns a property cleaning business in Fife. He has a long-time interest in comics and has collected them for several years.

Stuart Donald

  • Person
  • fl 2008-
Stuart Donald, honorary Archivist for the Diocese of Brechin. Formerly a Trustee and Lay Representative and also the Secretary to the Trustees of St Andrew's Cathedral, Stuart Donald is also engaged in freelance research into the historiography of the Scottish Episcopal Church, including 'The Incumbents of St Andrew's Chapel and Church, Aberdeen, 1723-1909, Vol 1' which was published privately by Mr Donald and the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney.

Bishop Edward Luscombe

  • Person
  • 1924–2022
Ted Luscombe was Bishop of Brechin from 1975 to 1990 and primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1985 to 1990.
Educated in Torquay and London, Luscombe served in the army during WW2 then trained and worked as a chartered accountant until 1963
Luscombe then was ordained in the Scottish Episcopal Church as a deacon in 1963 and as a priest one year later in 1964. His ecclesiastical career began as a curate at St Margaret's Glasgow after which he was rector of St Barnabas' Paisley. From 1971 to 1975 he was provost of St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee.
In 1987 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) by the University of Dundee.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Luscombe

Professor Geoffrey John Fraser Dutton

  • Person
  • 1924-2010
Geoffrey John Fraser Dutton was Professor of Pharmacological Biochemistry at the University of Dundee from 1977 until 1983, having joined the Biochemistry Department (at what was the Queen's College, Dundee) in 1954. He became Emeritus Professor in 1983.
His work in the 1950s uncovered the molecules and enzymes responsible for the human body's main drug and toxin disposal mechanism.
Dutton was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and was also a noted poet, gardener and mountaineer.

Grant and Robinson families

  • Family
  • c1783-fl 19th century
Peter Grant, born c1783 was a Baptist preacher in Grantown on Spey. A Gaelic speaker, he wrote several hymns which were later translated into English, by John Alexander Grant-Robinson [Peter's great- grandson and depositor's grandfather] who was Minister of the Baptist Church in Perth. Grant-Robinson was also a close friend of shipping magnate, Sir Charles Barrie.
John Robinson [depositor's great grandfather] was Baptist Minister in mid-19th century Calcutta and had close ties with missionaries William Carey and Joshua Marshman.
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