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Adam Anderson

  • Person
  • 1780-1846
Adam Anderson was Rector of Perth Academy for 28 years from 1809, and then Professor of Natural History at St Andrews University, 1837-1846.
Anderson concerned himself with numerous engineering projects: gas and water supply as well as matters to do with navigation of the Tay. He helped pioneer the use of gas lighting in Perth and the supply of water from the Tay by steam engine. In doing so he brought together skills that he possessed in chemistry, physics, geology, mathematics, architecture, and politics.
Anderson published widely on scientific and related matters and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1820. In 1827 the University of St. Andrews awarded him an honorary LLB and in 1837 he was awarded the Chair of Natural Philosophy at University of St Andrews, although he maintained close links with Perth, returning regularly.
As an educationalist Anderson worked for the extension of education to working class children and adults – a Mechanics Institute was set up as a result. A Liberal, he took part in agitation around the 1832 Reform Act. When he died on 5th December 1846 his coffin was escorted from St Andrews to Perth by a cortege for a civic funeral in the town.
Source: https://madeinperth.org/adam-anderson/

Abertay Historical Society

  • Corporate body
  • 1947-
The Abertay Historical Society was founded at a meeting in University College, Dundee on 29 May, 1947 by the Principal, Major-General D.N. Wimberley and History Lecturer, Dr Wainwright. It was formed to encourage the study of local history in Angus, Perthshire and Fife.
The Society and the University of Dundee have maintained close links: its meetings are normally held on University premises, while many members and office-holders have been University staff, including several presidents. The Society's original remit has been implemented through talks and lectures, excursions and annual publications, and with other agencies, it has also lobbied for the preservation of local historical buildings. It was instrumental in the creation of Dundee Heritage Trust. The Society also takes part in the Dundee Afternoon Lecture Series, which is run jointly by the Dundee Centre of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, the Dundee Members' Group of the National Trust for Scotland, the Dundee Naturalists' Society and the Abertay Historical Society. While based in Dundee, the Society also organises events in other parts of the Abertay area.
The Archaeological Section of the Society was originally started as a semi-independent division of the Society, organising local excavations, and its own series of meetings, but from 1993, it was decided that the Council would oversee the running of the Section. The mid-1990s also saw the end of members excursions. For a brief period in the early 1970s, there was also an Industrial Archaeology Section, mainly concerned with recording the local industrial heritage. The archaeological work carried out by the Society has, since 2015, been organised by its Fieldwork Division.
Since 1953, the Society has produced publications, usually on an annual basis, with the majority written by members.

Agnes Margot Cox

  • Person
  • 8 March 1905-March 16 1983
Agnes Margot Cox MBE (1905-1983) was born in Lochee, the eldest child of James Ernest and Agnes Jane Cox. She was educated at Bentley Priory. A member of the British Red Cross, Margot served at the British Red Cross Convalescent Home, La Selva, Italy during the Second World war. She died at her home, Seaton House, Nairn and was buried at the Cox family burial ground, Meigle, Perthshire.

Alexander Burn-Murdoch

  • Person
  • 21 August 1886-7 Jun 1954
Alexander Burn-Murdoch was an Edinburgh solicitor whose hobby was photography, particularly the taking of autochrome stereoscopic slides. He pioneered stereoscopy with Lumière plates and was a member of L'Association de Lumière in 1911. He was the fifth son of John Burn-Murdoch of Gartincaber, Perthshire and Mary Harriet Burn Callander of Prestonhall, Midlothian. Burn-Murdoch was commissioned in the 8th Royal Scots, serving in France and Ireland during WW1. In 1929 he married Aline, the daughter of Rev WJ Macdonald of Kirkaldy and the widow of Cecil Blake. As Writer to the Signet, Burn-Murdoch lived in Edinburgh, but also kept a house at Boat of Garten

Alistair Durie

  • Person
  • 4 August 1946 -5 October 2017
Dr Alistair Durie taught at Aberdeen and Glasgow Universities before moving to the Department of History and Politics at the University of Stirling. His academic interests lay in the linen and tourist industries, as well as banking, railways and transport. He also taught the history of medicine for the Open University. His publications include Scottish Linen Industry (1981), Scotland for the Holidays. A history of Tourism in Scotland (2003) and Water is Best, the Hydros and Health Tourism (2006)

Department of Anatomy

  • Corporate body
  • 1888-
The Department of Anatomy in Dundee is one of the oldest in the University, having been conferred through an endowment by the Cox family in 1888. The twenty-six year old Andrew Paterson was appointed its first professor. In the 21st century, it was renamed the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification

Young at Heart

  • Corporate body
  • fl. 2022-
Young at Heart is a women's group is based at Kirkton Community Centre and consists mainly of retired women from the local area. They meet each week to chat, and arrange visits and activities involving other groups, organisations and individuals

The Grampian Club

  • Corporate body
  • 1927-
The Grampian Club is based in Dundee and organises hill walks and more strenuous mountaineering activities, including rock climbing and skiing, within the local area and abroad. A programme of 'indoor meets' includes lectures and slide shows and the club publishes The Grampian Club Bulletin. Members of the club are also involved in Tayside Mountain Rescue and other local and national organisations, as well as taking an interest in issues relating to the environment and access to the Scottish countryside. Club members have also made significant contributions to the Dundee Mountain Film Festival.
The Club was formed in January 1927 at a meeting at Mathers Hotel, Dundee. Twelve members attended the first meet in Glen Clova, climbing a snow gully on Mayar. Membership has steadily increased and as of 2018 the Club had over 200 members.
Members of the Club are elected and must be over the age of 18. The Club owns two properties for use by its members - Inbhirfhaolain, a climbing hut in Glen Etive, which was acquired in 1961, and a cottage in Torridon acquired in 1984. On 14 February 1988, a coach dropping members off at a meet was hit by another coach near Tyndrum, resulting in the death of the Club Secretary, Elizabeth Stenhouse, and serious injuries to other members.
At a committee meeting in 1929 it was decided that the club should form a library and appoint an officer to take charge of it. Eric Maxwell was appointed and continued as librarian until 1970. The library opened in 1929 with a mere 4 books, which had increased to 22 by the end of the year. The librarian was also responsible for the lantern slide collection. Today, the club is managed by up to eight office-bearers and five Ordinary Members. The office-bearers include an Honorary President, President, Vice-President, Honorary Secretary, Honorary Treasurer, Honorary Meet Secretary, Honorary Librarian (in conjunction with another post), Honorary Editor, and Hut Custodian.

Alexander Shanks & Sons Ltd

  • Corporate body
  • c 1840-1960s
The firm of Alexander Shanks & Sons Ltd of Arbroath, engineers, founders and boiler makers, was incorporated in the year 1893. It was founded around 1840 by Alexander Shanks (1801-1845) who was a pioneer in the development of the lawnmower. In the 1850s, the firm purchased Dens Iron Works, manufacturing a wide variety of products including cranes, hoists, pumps and lawnmowers. In the 1960s the firm was taken over by Giddings & Lewis Fraser Ltd, Engineers, Arbroath.

Dundee Royal Infirmary

  • Corporate body
  • 1782-1998

Dundee Royal Infirmary had its origins in the Voluntary Dispensary founded in the city by public subscription in 1782. This proved so beneficial to the community that in 1793 Dr. Small proposed that an Infirmary for indoor patients should be founded. His proposal was realised in 1798, when the first 56-bed Dundee Infirmary was erected at King Street. Only the central portion was built at the time, the wings being erected in 1825-27. The Infirmary was granted a Royal Charter by George III in 1819, establishing it into a Body Corporate and Politic, called the "Dundee Royal Infirmary and Asylum". In 1820 the Asylum was formally established as a separate entity in premises in Albert Street, Dundee.

By the mid nineteenth century the King Street premises were no longer adequate and in 1852 building started on a new site in Barrack Road, near Dudhope Castle. Designed by Messrs. Coe & Godwin of London, it was completed and opened in February 1855, when patients were transferred from King Street. Originally constructed to accommodate 220 patients, later additions were made and the hospital began to diversify its services with new children's, ear and eye, ear nose and throat wards and an out patient clinic. The infirmary was granted further Royal Charters in 1877 and 1898 - the former on the occasion of the opening of a convalescent home at Barnhill and the latter providing for the addition of a maternity hospital.

In July 1948 the running of the Infirmary was transferred to the National Health Service in accordance with the 1947 National Health Service (Scotland) Act. The hospital closed in 1998, after all services were transferred to Ninewells Hospital.

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.
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