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Gilroy Sons & Co Ltd was founded by three brothers, Robert, George and Alexander Gilroy, in 1849. Their Tay Works were built in 1863 and the firm became a limited company in 1890. In 1920 it amalgamated with other jute firms to form Jute Industries Ltd. The Gilroys were among the first of the Dundee manufacturers to establish the direct importation of jute from India and their products included hessians, sacks and canvas. The company went into voluntary liquidation in 1933.

Kevin McGRATH was born in southern China in 1951 and was educated in England and Scotland (graduated from DJCAD in c 1973; he has lived and worked in France, Greece, and India. Presently he is an associate of the Department of South Asian Studies and poet laureate at Lowell House, Harvard University. Publications include, Fame (1995), Lioness (1998), Maleas (2002), The Sanskrit Hero (2004), Flyer (2005), Comedia (2008), Stri (2009), Jaya (2011), Supernature (2012), Heroic Krsna and Eroica (2013), In The Kacch and Windward (2015), Arjuna Pandava and Eros (2016), Raja Yudhisthira (2017), Bhisma Devavrata (2018), Vyasa Redux (2019), Song Of The Republic (2020), Fame and On Friendship (forthcoming, 2022), Causality And Preliterate Song (in progress). McGrath lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his family.

The idea of forming the club was first discussed in 1969 by Iain Smart, Hugh Simpson, Bill Wallace and George Waterston. The first meeting was held in 1970, formed by academics of the University of Dundee. The members had a shared interest in Greenland and the Arctic and to join the club was initially by invitation only. Each autumn the club would organise suppers which were open to men only. Females members complained and the Summer Solstice weekends were established which included female members and wives. These events centred on walking but were later changed to Spring meetings. Funding was available for expeditions and for a time the Club was a charity but no longer. The Scottish Arctic Club has their own library which was then merged with the Waterstone library which belonged to George and Irene Waterstone; recently it became part of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Perth. The Club is still active today and membership is open to anyone with an interest in the Arctic.

Wm. Fergusson & Sons Weaving Manufacturers was inaugurated in 1818 in the Hilltown district of Dundee but it was not until 1839 that the buildings were erected on the present site. On 30 May 1892 the premises were destroyed by fire and the new Dudhope Works, designed by J. Murray Robertson, came into operation in May 1893. The company was acquired by Low & Bonar Ltd in 1912 and became a Limited Liability Company in that year. Wm. Fergusson and Sons traded under their own name until 1971/2.