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- 17 June 1911-7 July 1999
He was born in Greenwich east of London, the son of Sir Robert Robertson and educated at Rugby School. He then studied Chemistry at Cambridge University graduating MA around 1930. On graduating he spent some time mapping Dicksonland in Spitzbergen where the glacier Robertsonbreen is named after him.
In 1933 he became the Chief Chemist at Fullers Earth Union Ltd in Surrey then in 1944 moved to Glasgow. In 1958 Robertson moved to Pitlochry where he lived for the rest of his life. His field work was varied and worldwide, including, field work in Iran (Kermanshah, Spain, Greece, and the US, and the United Kingdom.
In 1969 he founded the Robertson Resource Use Institute in Pitlochry and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh a year later.
George Taylor and Margaret Corstorphine
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- 1904-1993
George Taylor was born in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh University where he gained a degree in Botany. Leaving his post-graduate employment at the Royal Botanical Garden, Taylor moved south to establish the botanical section within the British Museum. In 1956 he was appointed the director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew and gained a knighthood in 1962. As well as his official career he travelled widely in China, Asia and Africa on plant collecting expeditions and had a special interest in the Himalayan poppy.
Robert Henry and Margaret Corstorphine were keen amateur botanists from Arbroath who dedicated their talents to studying the flora of the county of Angus. Over a forty-year period lasting into the early 1940s they amassed a comprehensive Herbarium and botanical library and were also engaged in the compilation of a manuscript survey of the flora of Angus, which was intended for publication. Taylor became closely involved with the Flora of Angus after the death of Robert Corstorphine. Margaret Corstorphine welcomed his assistance as her poor health left her unable to continue with the work alone.
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- 4 August 1946 -5 October 2017
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- fl 1914
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- ?-1972
Henry David Buist served an engineering apprenticeship then went to India where he was a factory manager for National Company Ltd in Rajgunge for 33 years. He managed the Orient, Budge and National Jute Mills. In 1935 he was appointed a Magistrate of the Third Class in the district of Howrah.
Buist's family lived at Dalmeny Place, 1 Morgan Street, Dundee and would holiday in India. Buist and his wife had two daughters; the elder, Ina, was regularly sent postcards from India by her father and by his brother, William. Their youngest child, Henry, was drowned when his ship was torpedoed off Norway in the early months of WW2.
HD Buist retired from working in India in February 1942. His wife died in 1963, and Buist himself died at his home, 27 Oxford Street, Dundee in February 1972.
Source: The Courier & Advertiser, February 29, 1972
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- fl 1942-1998
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- fl 1940-1973
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.
George Yule Mackie, Lord Mackie of Benshie
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- 1919-2015
George Yule Mackie, Lord Mackie of Benshie was born on 10th July 1919 on the family farm at Tarves, Aberdeenshire. He was a Liberal Democrat peer (1974-2015), Chairman of the Scottish Liberal Party (1965-1970) and former Liberal MP for Caithness and Sutherland (1964-1966), a pilot and Squadron Leader during World War Two and Rector of the University of Dundee in the 1980s.
Mackie flew over 70 missions with bomber command, being awarded the DSO and the Distinguished Flying Cross. In 1944 he married Lindsay Lyall Sharp, and they settled at Ballinshoe Farm, Benshie, near Kirriemuir in Angus. Initially concentrating on arable farming, Mackie diversified into farming pigs, cattle and fruit. From the 1960s he also developed several businesses in the Highlands, including Caithness Glass at Wick, then Perth, The Tongue Hotel on the Pentland Firth and the Braeroy Estate near Fort William.
Having first contested South Angus in 1959, Mackie was elected Member of Parliament for Caithness and Sutherland in 1964. In the Commons he served as Scottish Liberal whip. He lost his seat in 1966, when he was defeated by Labour candidate Robert Maclennan. Maclennan eventually became a senior Social Democrat Party/Liberal Democrat politician in the 1980s. Mackie contested Caithness and Sutherland again in 1970, but lost by a wider margin.
Having been Chair of the Scottish Liberal Party from 1965 to 1970, he was its President between 1983 and 1988. Having been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1971, Mackie was given a life peerage, as Baron Mackie of Benshie of Kirriemuir in the County of Angus on 10 May 1974. In the House of Lords, he served as Agriculture and Scottish Affairs spokesman for the Liberals and their successor parties between 1975 and 2000. From 1986 to 1997 he served on the Council of Europe.
Between 1980 and 1983, he was elected as Rector of the University of Dundee. Mackie was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 1982.
Mackie and Lindsay had three daughters, and a son who died young. Lindsay died in 1985 and in 1988 Mackie married Jacqueline Lane, the widow of a partner in one of his hotel ventures. Lord Mackie died in 2015 at the age of 95 years old.
Sources: MS 404; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11418362/Lord-Mackie-of-Benshie-obituary.html; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mackie,_Baron_Mackie_of_Benshie; https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/17/lord-mackie-of-benshie
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- fl 1910 - fl 1934
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Morrison
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- 12 Sept 1876-17 July 1950
James Ernest Cox was the eldest son of Ada Mary Cox and Edward Cox of Cardean and Drumkilbo, Meigle. Educated at a preparatory school and at Uppingham, he then studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A.
In 1899 he joined the firm of Messrs Cox Brothers. He became a leading authority in jute and in 1920, when Jute Industries Ltd acquired companies in the city, including Cox Brothers Ltd, he was chairman of the firm. From 1920 until 1948 he was a chairman of Jute Industries Ltd and its subsidiary companies and was a prominent figure in the business and commercial world. Following the death of his father In 1913 he joined the Board of the First, Second and Third Scottish-American Trust Company and the Northern American Trust Company. Later he became chairman of the companies and held these positions, along with that of chairman of the Camperdown Trust Company Ltd, until his resignation in 1947. He was a member of the local board of the Northern Assurance Company Ltd, and an extra-ordinary director of the Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society. In 1919 he became president of the Chamber of Commerce and for many years he was a prominent member of the Association of Jute Spinners and Manufacturers.
In 1906 he became a member of the Council of University College, Dundee. Later he was appointed convener of the finance committee and in 1926 was appointed chairman of the council. In 1931 his services to the university were recognised when he received the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1931. He resigned from the chairmanship in 1939, and three years later was elected president of the College, a position he held for until 1946.
In 1934 he was appointed by the Scottish Secretary to the Committee on Scottish Health Services, established to review the entire national health policy and organisation in Scotland. JE Cox served for six years as a director of Dundee Royal Infirmary and wad also vice-president of the Royal Victoria Hospital. He was a General Commissioner of Income Tax for the Division of Dundee.
Dr Cox lived at Lyndhurst, Lochee prior to purchasing Methven Castle in 1922. The estate, of almost 1000 acres, comprised the mansion-house; policies and woodland; the home farm; and the farms of Easter Busby, Loanleven, and Easter, Middle and Wester Powside. He had an interest in agriculture, particularly pig breeding and won prizes at many shows, including several at the Royal Highland Show. He was also president of Methven Curling Club. While resident in Dundee Dr Cox was identified with St Margaret's Episcopal Church but after the purchase of Methven, he was prominently associated with St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth, being treasurer of the Diocese of Brechin for 25 years.
He married Agnes Jane Tod in 1904. His wife, three sons, Commander David E. Cox, Michael George Cox and Douglas Hunter Cox and a daughter, Margot Cox, survived him. His first born son, Edward James Cox, had been killed in a motorcycle accident in 1925. A daughter Kathleen Mary Cox was born and died in 1911.
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- 8 March 1905-March 16 1983
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- 1876-1949
Professor Geoffrey John Fraser Dutton
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- 1924-2010
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.
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- 1916-1995
Source: British Medical Journal, volume 311, 14 October 1995
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- 1865-1947
Arthur Donald Walsh (1916-1977)
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- 1916-1977
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- b.1928
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