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Alexander Tulloch MacQueen

  • Person
  • 1920-1996
Dr Alec MacQueen, M.B., Ch.B., M.R.C.P.E., was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He was educated in Palestine and Fort Augustus Abbey School. In 1950 he joined the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry at Queens College, Dundee where he remained for the rest of his academic career. His research interest at first centred on diabetics but he soon became interested in problems of medical ethics such as euthanasia, organ transplants and abortion. His enthusiasm for debate led to the formation of a philosophy and science club centred on Dundee. MacQueen's methods of teaching anticipated later medical trends, in particular his use of clinical problems to demonstrate anatomy and his emphasis on students working independently with audio-visual aids.

Dr Mary Young

  • Person
  • 1948 - 2010
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.

John William Kimber

  • Person
  • 1875-1918
John William Kimber was born on the 21st of December 1875, in Portsmouth. Little information is known about his early life, apart from that one of his siblings was called Robert Percy Kimber, and their parents were from the London area.
John W. Kimber served in the Royal Navy from 24th July 1891 to 31st December 1905. He began as a volunteer and left the Navy with the rank of Petty Officer of the 1st class. Kimber married Ada Jane McKone in Islington around 1903 and they moved to 5 Panmure Place in Broughty Ferry around 1906. The couple had three daughters - one of whom was called Edith - and one son named John (known as Jack) Kimber.
Kimber had trained as an Instructor in Physical Training in Portsmouth in 1904, and achieved his Educational Institute of Scotland certificate in November 1906. He came to work at the University College Dundee for five years as Superintendent of the Fleming Gymnasium. He also worked for the Dundee School Board and the Voluntary Schools of the City.
Kimber enlisted in the army for the First World War. He became a Lieutenant in the 4th/1st Battalion of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). In his training for the war he attended the Grenadier School of Instruction at Scone Camp, and also attended the Northern Command School of Instruction. John William Kimber died at Givenchy, on the 11th of May 1918, aged 42. He is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery in Pas-de-Calais, France.

Rosa Michaelson

  • Person
  • fl 1986-2014
Rosa Michaelson was a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems in the School of Business, University of Dundee. She worked in academia for over 30 years, with experiences as a research associate on several projects in different disciplines, including Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Mechanical Engineering. Her first job in the University was in Mechanical Engineering (1986-88), her second post was 1990-2005 (Fellow in Business Computing in the Department of Accountancy and Business Finance), and she became senior lecturer in 2005. Rosa also managed department computing systems before becoming a lecturer in computer science. She was a founder member of Women in Computing (1984 onwards), and had a 40% secondment as the SHEFC Gender Equality co-ordinator from 2000-2003. In 2011 Rosa was awarded a PhD by the Institute of Education London; the topic was a socio-technical investigation of 30 years of educational technology adoption in higher education. She supervised postgraduates at both the masters and doctoral level. Rosa was active in the DAUT (Dundee Association of University Teachers). She retired in 2014.

Robert Campbell Hewson

  • Person
  • 1929-2007
Campbell Hewson was born on 23 May 1929. He and his wife moved to Dundee and took up residence in Monifieth in 1965. He was senior lecturer in the Education Department in the University. He started his research into Dundee with a view to taking a degree but in 1969 was offered a senior position with Kirkcaldy College of Technology, which he took which meant that he could not continue with his studies. He died after an accident in 2007.

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.

Kate Stewart Fraser

  • Person
  • 1886-1974

Kate Stewart Fraser was born in Annfield Street, Dundee, the daughter of John Fraser. She was educated at Morgan Academy and Harris Academy and then University College, Dundee (which she attended 1905-1910) and was awarded an honours MA by the University of St Andrews in 1909. She had served as a pupil teacher at Hill Street School and later taught at Harris Academy, Dundee.

During the Great War Kate emigrated to Canada where she married her fiancé Thomas Willock (Tom) Scott, an accountant from Wormit. They had two children Kathryn, known as Kay, a French teacher, and Thomas Stewart, known as Stewart. Stewart Scott also became a teacher and died on 29th March 2006 in Toronto. He was survived by his second wife Maia and his three children.

Kate died in Toronto.

Helen Gill Parker (nee Irons)

  • Person
  • 1897-1969
Helen Irons was born in Perth, the eldest of four children. The family moved to Forfar where her railwayman father, William Irons, worked as the Station Foreman. Her Mother, Margaret Gill, was from Dundee.
Helen trained as a teacher at Dundee Training College, graduating in 1917. She worked as a teacher in Durham where she met and married William Parker, and had two children.
Her latter years were spent in Hampshire, where she had moved to be near her daughter.
Source: granddaughter

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

Lord George Robertson

  • Person
  • 12th April 1946 -

Born in Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, Scotland.

Robertson completed his education at Dunoon Grammar School and Queen's College, Dundee. During his time at Queen's College, it transitioned to the University of Dundee, with Robertson being one of the first graduates in 1968. He was also one of the minority of graduates that year who decided to take a Dundee degree over a St. Andrews one.

Robertson's student life was extensive. He wrote a column for the student newspaper, 'Annasach' (launched 1967), which he used to promote the new University and encourage other students to take a University of Dundee degree over a St. Andrews degree.

Robertson was also highly involved in student protests. In 1968, he was one of a number of Dundee students who invaded the St. Andrews' rugby pitch during a match between St. Andrews and the Orange Free State to protest against Apartheid. The same year, Robertson expressed his opposition to proposed cuts by the government in student grants, by organising a 24-hour work-in by students in the university library.

Robertson went on to partake in a political career in the Labour Party. His roles include being a Member of Parliament (1978-1999), Member of the House of Lords (2000), Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland (1993-1997), Secretary of State for Defence (1997-1999), and the 10th Secretary General of NATO (1999-2003).

He has received numerous honours for his time in the political sector.

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.

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

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 Kirsty Gunn

  • Person
  • 1960-
Kirsty Gunn, BA (Hons), M.Phil., was born in New Zealand and educated at Victoria University and Oxford. The author of six novels to date: Rain, The Keepsake, Featherstone, The Boy and the Sea, The Big Music and Caroline's Bikini, Kirsty has also published collections of extended essays and short stories about identity and Katherine Mansfield.
She is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes including the Scottish Arts Council Bursary for Literature, the New York Times Notable Book award, Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year. The Big Music was shortlisted for the James Tait Black and Impac Awards and was a Guardian Book of the Year and winner of the New Zealand Book of the Year .
Kirsty previously taught Creative Writing at Oxford University and at a number of writing seminars and schools and established the Writing Practice and Study programme at the University of Dundee.
Based in London and Scotland, Kirsty is married and has two daughters
For more information see http://www.kirsty-gunn.com/
Source: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/kirsty-gunn

Sabine Price

  • Person
  • 1926-2019
Sabine Price, nee Schweitzer, was born in 1926 in Berlin. Although her maternal grandfather had been chief mayor of Berlin, in 1939 her father was interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp because his family had been Jewish before converting to Christianity. Luckily he managed to get out and emigrated to England with two of her siblings. But her mother, two other siblings and Sabine were unable to leave before the war started and so the family was separated for seven years. Living as a half-Jewish child under Hilter, she was forced to leave school early, and during the fighting at the end of the war their house was fire-hosed by the Russians and they only just escaped in time. At 18, having lost her home, she witnessed the horrors of the end of the war, but amazingly her family all survived and were later reunited in England. Sabine has written a short piece about what it felt like to be a half-Jewish child at this time; you can read it here: https://www.rebeccapriceart.com/sabine-s-writing
After art school in England, she became a children's illustrator. She was a great champion of childhood; she had experienced her own childhood incredibly intensely, and I believe that her reassuring, comforting illustrations for children were a reaction to her own family life, fractured as it was by the rise of Hitler and the war. She died aged 93, in 2019.

Mark Cornwall

  • Person
  • fl 1991-

Professor J. Mark Cornwall joined the Department from Oxford University in 1991. He was Reader in European history and the Department's Postgraduate Coordinator. His doctoral research (University of Leeds, 1988) was on the collapse of the Habsburg Empire in the First World War, and his general field of interest is east-central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In 1994 he was awarded the BP prize lectureship by the Royal Society of Edinburgh for services to East European history. He has also held a Leverhulme Trust 'Study Abroad Fellowship' at the University of Toronto (2000-1) and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2000, together with Professor Robert Evans (Oxford), he set up the Forum of British, Czech and Slovak Historians which held its first conference at the University of Dundee in 2002

Mark Cornwall was made a Professor in 2004, the same year that he was awarded a large AHRB grant. He left Dundee in 2004 to take up a post at Southampton University

Dr Arthur J Cruickshank

  • Person
  • fl 1953-1988
Dr Arthur J Cruickshank was the head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics. Daughter will email in an obituary which details his life and career.

David Irwin

  • Person
  • fl 2000's

David Irwin, in partnership with David Grayson formed Irwin Grayson Associates which in 1980, founded Project North East, one of the UK's leading enterprise and economic development agencies, which has now worked in 40 countries. Irwin continued to manage and grow Project North East until 2000 when he was appointed as the first Chief Executive of the UK's Small Business Service taking responsibility for all of the UK Government's support for SMEs and a newly created role to be the "strong voice for small business at the heart of government" advocating the case for an improved regulatory environment. He stepped down from that role in mid-2002.

David is Chairman of Cobweb Information Ltd, a business that researches, publishes and markets business information. Following research into the competences that assist trade associations to succeed in influencing public policy in east Africa, he was awarded a PhD by Newcastle University in 2019. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Politics, Newcastle University.
Some of David's ancestors were members of the Glasite Church, hence his research into the membership

David Hopwood

  • Person
  • 7th April 1936 - 14th February 2016
Dr David Hopwood grew up around Leeds and Manchester, obtaining a BSc in Anatomy at Leeds in 1954 and a postgraduate degree in Pathology. He later became lecturer of Anatomy at St Andrew's Queens College from 1962 - 1968, later becoming Reader and Consultant in Pathology at the University of Dundee and Ninewells Hospital from 1972 until his retirement in 1998. Dr Hopwood became a painter in his retirement, attending Dundee Art College on Graham Street to study Fine Art. Dr Hopwood died on the 14th February 2016.

Greig Family

  • Family
  • c1832-
David Middleton Greig (1863-1936) was the son of Dr David Greig (1832-1890), a surgeon in Dundee (at DRI and founder of the Forfarshire Medical Association) who had served in the Crimean War, and Anne Sim (they were married in 1861). Dr David Greig was himself son of a druggist, David Greig, and Anne Greig (nee Middleton, married in 1831). DMG was a demonstrator at University College, Dundee and Senior Surgeon at Dundee Royal Infirmary. He was later Conservator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the condition Greig's syndrome is named for him. He was also an internationally recognised authority on the pathology of bones. He married Isabella France Soutar in 1881.
John Keiller Greig (1881-1970) was the youngest brother of David Middelton Greig and was an estate factor (Craigendarroch) working with the Keiller family and was British national figure skating campion three times. He also competed in the 1908 Olympics in London. In 1915 he married Grace Margaret Turnbull Clapperton. Grace Margaret inherited part of Orkney (the Stewart of Masseter Estate in South Ronaldsay) on the death of her uncle R A Clapperton Stewart but sold it back to the islanders.
Ann Keiller Greig was their daughter who was a qualified nursery teacher.
R A Clapperton Stewart was related to George Stewart of Mutiny on the Bounty.

The Buist family

  • Family
  • c1762-
The Reverend John Buist was born in Abdie in around 1762 and in 1802 he married Margaret Jafferson and went on to have nine children; he died in 1845. Alexander Jafferson (A. J.) Buist (1818-1901) was born in Tannadice, Forfarshire, As a young man he joined the business of his elder brother James Jafferson Buist (1810-1844) who was engaged in spinning at Ward Mill Dundee
The Buist family had strong links to Dundee and the thriving textile industry, indeed Alexander Jafferson Buist was one of the first mill owners to provide a crèche and a school for the children of those who worked in his mills. In 1865, sometime after John James Buist's death, A. J. Buist entered into partnership with William and John Don to form Don Brothers, Buist & Company, a company that still exists today in the form of Don and Low, Forfar. A. J. Buist went on to become a Governor of University College, Dundee, an Elder of the Free Church, a Justice of the Peace, and a Deputy Lieutenant of Dundee. He was also involved in politics as a Unionist.
John Charles Buist (1852- 1944) was the son of A. J. Buist and was born on 17th March 1852. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh before joining Don Brothers, Buist & Company in 1874. He eventually became managing director of that firm, a position he held until his retirement in 1933. Dr Buist was a member of the Council of University College, Dundee, President of Dundee Chamber of Commerce and a Director of Dundee Royal Infirmary for over five decades (being Chairman of the institution on three separate occasions) . He was awarded an LLD by the University of St Andrews in 1925. Like his father he was involved in politics as a Unionist. John Charles Buist married Isabella Watson of Bullionfield, Invergowrie. He died at his home, Balgillo, Broughty Ferry on 27th August 1944.
J. C. Buist's son Frank D. J. Buist (1900-1980) became a director of Don Brothers, Buist & Company in 1933 and was chairman of the company in the 1960s. His brother Captian Charles Edward Buist MC died on active service in 1917. F. D. J Buist married the daughter of the Right Reverend Walter John Forbes Robberds (1863-1944), Bishop of Brechin (1904-1934) and Primus of the Episcopal Church in Scotland (1908-1934).

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.
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