User:Stephencdickson

Born 11th January 1960 in Airthrey Castle near Stirling. I was christened in Muckhart parish church around two weeks later: Stephen Charles Dickson. My father's side of the family are from the Kirriemuir area and were related to J.M. Barrie, the author of "Peter Pan". I also appear to be related to the far less known blind scientist, William Ogilvy Kermack FRSE. My mother's side of the family are from Perivale in London. My paternal grandparent's lived nearby, my grandfather Charles Dickson, being the local gamekeeper, mainly concerned with woodland management and the raising of pheasant for shooting. My paternal grandmother, Jane Ann Howe Ogilvy, provides the link to both Barrie and Kermack.

My mother Joyce Gladys Dickson (nee Day) (1924-2021) served in the code-breaking section of Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and came to Scotland in 1946 as a war bride. My father had been injured in the Battle of the Ardennes in the war while serving as a sergeant in the REME, maintaining tanks on the battlefield. He died of a heart attack in 1969 when I was nine years old. He had spent most of his life working on the estate of Cowden Castle, the same estate for which my grandfather was gamekeeper. My father worked at the sawmill on the estate and as an agricultural engineer. Later he concentrated solely on car mechanics.

In my childhood, until 1978, I lived in Baldiesburn, Muckhart, in a 17th century house attached to a former blacksmiths, which was wholly remodelled around 1870 to add an upper level. My sister-in-law Nancy, from Chile, lived there until summer 2022 when it was sold out of the family.

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Eve Casini (model) - portrait by Stephen C Dickson

Ancestry

I come from a long line of professional gardeners, originating in Glen Clova, and my great great grandfather laid out the grounds of Cortachy Castle in the early 19th century. Prior to that, my ancestors appear to have been servants at Inverquharity Castle. A branch of my family (on my paternal grandmother's side) appear to have left Kirriemuir in the mid-19th century with a large group from that town, to colonise on the north coast of Hawaii.

Family

I have two older brothers and one younger sister.

My brother Colin John Dickson (1950-2021), 10 years older than myself, retired from the Edinburgh Observatory in December 2014. There his role had been designing and commissioning telescopes for principal observatories around the world, including Hawaii and Chile. His design projects include updating equipment on the Hubble Telescope in space. He was married to Nancy, whom he met in Chile while installing a deep-space telescope at the Paranal Observatory.

My sister Kathleen is 18 months younger than myself and lives in London, working as the main public interface for the British Film Institute in their archive section. She has worked there for over 30 years.

My oldest brother, Ian, lives in Dollar. Following several years of ill-health he has now retired from his trade as a motor mechanic (which followed in his father's footsteps)

I have a son (born 1986), Rory, by my first marriage to Gillian Lesley (nee Young). We married at the Thomas Morton Hall in Leith and honeymooned in Paris. Our first home together was at 5 Grosvenor Crescent. Gill emigrated to Australia in 2004. Rory prefers to be known as Ray. He married Tiffany at Gretna Green on Valentine's Day 2016 and after gaining his Green Card emigrated to America in August 2017. He now lives in Hollister, California.

I was married to Linda (nee Tierney) in December 1994, at Gleneagles Hotel and honeymooned in York and then on the Orient Express. I met Linda at Leith Enterprise Trust, actively helping the revitalisation of Leith on the employment side in the 1980s. She went on to be office manager at Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, and currently works for an architect's office. We separated at Easter 2011.

Influences

The greatest single influence on my life was the former war correspondent, playwright and theatre owner, Robin Stark. From his first job as chaffeur to Lawrence of Arabia, to entering Berlin with Russian stormtroopers in 1945, his life was a huge adventure. His friends and acquaintances included Rachmaninov, Charles Laughton, Ernest Hemingway, and countless authors and stars of stage and screen. Oddly I spent every day with him, listening to his stories during a period of unemployment. He died 22 days after I met him, in June 1981.

The other great influence, due to her perspective on life, was Martha Sinclair, who was my closest friend from 1988 to 1993, then disappeared.

From February 2011 until February 2013 I had a complex rollercoaster relationship with a person 26 years my junior: Meegan Montgomery, a Texan PhD Philosophy student then attending Edinburgh University. This was a major upheaval from which my life is still recovering.

Early Life

My home life would be seen as idyllic by many. The family was mainly self-sufficient and acted as a croft in many respects. We kept goats for milk, chickens for eggs, and bees for honey. We provided enough potatoes and vegetables for our own needs, and grew huge quantities of fruit (raspberries, strawberries, blackcurrant, whitecurrant, redcurrant and gooseberry) for jam for both our own use and barter. A trout stream runs through the garden. We grew enough hay and turnips to keep the goats through the winter.

However, this was all unmechanised, apart from a home-made garden tractor made out of my father's motorcycle and Spitfire wheels. Deep ploughing was largely done with a Scottish hand plough (see Wikipedia article on ploughs), an arduous task. Hay was gathered using scythes.

My father died aged 54 when I was 9. The family survived on my mother's widow's pension; the same as an Old Age Pension, and not intended to be capable of supporting a family. This was supplemented to a very small degree with a role as Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages. As this required my mother to stay at home permanently but only be paid for a registration (which were few) this was probably of minimal if any benefit. My brother Colin who was then 19 did a huge amount to support the family and made huge personal sacrifices to do this. We largely survived due to the pre-existing reliance on self-sufficiency and living off our own produce.

Hobbies

I like music and singing and have been in several choirs over the years. My first public performance was at The Mod in Perth in 1970. My most notable appearance in later life was a solo in St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh in 1981. In student years I was lead singer with a pseudo-punk band "The Born Losers". My favourite singing moment was singing "Why Can't We Be Friends?" live on stage with WAR at the the Glasgow Apollo in 1980. In the same concert (and technically top of the bill) was the Average White Band and I was also pleased to sing "Let's Go Round Again" with the band.

I joined the Edinburgh Choir and performed at the official switch on of the Christmas lights on George Street on November 24th 2013. I am currently in a soul choir: Edinburgh's Got Soul. The choir performed publically at a sell-out concert at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh in May 2014, at the Royal Highland Show in June 2014, again in the Queen's Hall in both December 2014 and December 2015 with guest star Sharlene Hector of Basement Jaxx, and with Kele Le Roc in May 2015. Our guest soloist in December 2016 was Mica Paris in a sell-out concert to 2200 persons at the Usher Hall.

I enjoy painting and drawing, particularly life drawing and oil painting. I generally have a reluctance to sell work, having sold my first work at 10 and instantly regretting its loss. From 2005 I have been working on a series of oil paintings of Edinburgh's street characters/tramps. A curious early commission (in my teens) was to Craig and Rose paint company (famed for supplying the paint for the Forth Rail Bridge who required several building interiors to be painted in proposed paint schemes to demonstrate to clients (including Ceres church and a Kirkcaldy church). More recently some of my sketch-work was exhibited in a bar on Leith Walk for the month of October 2013. I joined a local art group, Sketchy Beats, in October 2013.

I have always taken many photographs and this exploded due to the advent of digital photographs. I am a member of 3 digital photography groups.

I am also a collectaholic. Collections include bottles, maps, netsuke pieces, chinoiserie and odd finds. I also enjoy fossil-hunting and metal-detecting.

I am an avid film watcher, trying to watch at least one daily, and have an extensive collection of VHS and DVD recordings. I am a particular fan of Korean films and older Japanese films such as the works of Akira Kurosawa, or more modern works such as those of Beat Takeshi. American films I take with a pinch of salt but do enjoy directors such as the Coen Brothers and independent gems like Napoleon Dynamite.

Most friends consider me a more than competent chef, and I greatly enjoy cooking and being creative with food.

Education

Educated originally at Muckhart Primary School, and greatly influenced by the headmaster, Graham Nisbet. All three Perth and Kinross County Council annual bursaries to Dollar Academy were awarded to this tiny school which then contained only 30 pupils aged from 5 to 11, split into two classes. I received one of these bursaries giving me a free place at Dollar. My sister Kathleen did the same the following year. Although the bursary covered all school fees and books it did not cover the cost of the uniform and sportswear, and this caused major problems within the family budget.

I attended Dollar Academy 1971-1978 and excelled academically, being first in class in all eight subjects I took in 1977. I won the Kennedy Medal for best fifth year pupil in 1977 and Mylne Medal for best sixth year pupil in 1978. I won the subject prize medals for Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Geography and Art. I was the School Dux 1977/78.

I am one of the few people ever to have scored 100% in a national GCSE Higher English essay (writing on the topic of the day my father died).

I won the Scottish National Maths Contest in both 1977 and 1978.

I was accepted to Stirling University to study Physics and Mathematics and by Strathclyde University to study naval architecture but instead chose to study architecture at Edinburgh University. Qualified with a MA (Hons) and Diploma in Architecture. Specialised in Architectural Conservation and particularly in warehouse conversions and industrial buildings. I also spent two years studying contract and copyright law.

Adult Life

Only two periods of employment have ever been directly as an architect. Firstly a period at the Scottish Executive in the Prison Building Division (then at Meadowbank), largely working on survey work for rehabilitation of existing prisons such as Perth and Peterhead but also designing parts of the chapel at Cornton Vale Women's Prison at Stirling, and a Training for Freedom Centre for young offenders at Polmont, Falkirk. Secondly, a small local architects office in Leith, mainly overseeing housing repairs on tenements. Both of these periods of employment were prior to graduation. The latter very oddly included considerable work for the Libyan army during the Colonel Khadafi years.

Subsequent to graduation my employment has been entirely with Edinburgh City Council (named Edinburgh District Council at the time of original employment).

My initial role was unique, and no longer exists as a post, being employed as Surveyor of Graveyards and Cemeteries. This was later extended in terms of both role and time to Surveyor and Historical Reasearcher of Graveyards and Cemeteries for Edinburgh. At the time of employment (1984) Edinburgh had 26 graveyards and cemeteries under its control. Many of these are historically significant including one (Greyfriars Kirkyard) of international importance. Research was done from source; original burial documents and records, many from the 16th century and written in Old Scots. This work was complemented by periods in the National Library researching biographical material on those significant figures interred in the cemeteries. My interest in this field continues, and I am brought in as an "expert" when issues arise relating to the graveyards. I am also occasionally asked to speak at conferences on this specialist field. As a private commission I drew up a management plan for Scotland's only cemetery run as a non-profit-making trust; Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.

The above however was a temporary contract, having an end when all research was complete. Thereafter I moved to the Council's Planning Department within their Conservation Section, to oversee grant-aided restoration projects funded by the Council. I have remained within a planning role since 1984. Central to my roles was the revitalisation of Leith, Edinburgh's harbour area, which was very run down and was evolving into a huge Council Housing estate, sweeping away all historic interest. Working closely will local architects and Housing Associations, by 2000 the area was wholly transformed, and is now a trendy place to live and core area for upmarket bars and restaurants. Unusual projects included the complete restoration of the famous statue to Greyfriars Bobby, rebuilding the Flodden Wall at the Pleasance, floodlighting of Edinburgh Old Town and Calton Hill and in more recent years the total restoration and remodelling of Waverley Station.

On one of the few ventures to leave the Council I was shortlisted for the role of Director of the Edinburgh New Town Conservation Trust, but at the time (1994) was considered too young for the post. Parallel to this I was credited for helping to establish the Edinburgh Old Town Trust. Both are now amalgamated into one body, the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust, since the granting of Edinburgh as a World Heritage Site.

For 10 years I was the most long-serving member of the listed building team for Edinburgh, and mainly oversaw applications for Listed Building Consent. I currently work in the Local Developments and Listed Building East team, again looking after Leith.

In 2014 I won a commendation in the Scottish Quality Awards in Planning for the revitalisation of the south side of Charlotte Square. In 2015 I was category winner (Development on the Ground) for the same award: for the multi-prize winning Advocates Close development just off the Royal Mile.

Local History

Parallel to this I was living in Leith (from 1981) and becoming part of its revitalistaion on a social as well as building side. I was a founding member of Leith History Society, and taught "History of Leith" as an adult education class from 1986 to 1998. I regularly give free guided tours of the area, to locals and visiting architects or planners, and particularly enjoy giving tours to schoolchildren or church groups.

During the critical years of Leith's rebirth I was a committee member of Leith Housing Forum, Leith Physical Development Group, and Leith Initiative For Tourism. Responsible for the erection of 30 blue and white visitor plaques around Leith, and responsible for the text on numerous guide panels around the Leith area. I am also an official "Friend of Leith Rotary", part of Rotary International.

Personal research

Odd projects requiring full research included a request from Historic Scotland to track down all executions in Edinburgh from 1500 to 1900 as part of a challenge to a private plaque which wished to declare "thousands of women were burnt alive here at the hands of man while their children watched". The expected tome from the National Library turned out to be 4 pages long! No-one was executed for stealing a loaf of bread, as legend would have it. 12 persons were executed for "witchcraft". Of these 5 were male; 7 were female. Of those 3 were from one very infamous case at North Berwick. Burke and Hare jump out on the list as the only mass murderers. "Half-hangit' Maggie" jumps out as the only person surviving execution (after her case the words "till dead" were added to the Scottish sentence to be hung by the neck).

A second private research commission was at the request of the Marie Stuart Society, who involve themselves with all things connected to Mary Queen of Scots. Mary's mother, Mary of Guise ended her days in Leith and had a private palace built on Rotten Row (now Quality Lane). Records show that in 1561, Mary Queen of Scots visited the "house of Andro Lamb, beit the space of ane hour" having disembarked in Leith. Research pinpointed her landing site (and a plaque now marks the spot) and disproved that the house currently known as "Lamb's House" was the house visited by her. Instead she (more logically) visited the former house of her mother, then owned by Andrew Lamb, on Quality Lane, immediately east of the current Lamb's House.

Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh commissioned me in 1985 to do a comprehensive study of the cemetery, to improve the efficiency of this non-profit making trust. This looked at both landscape and monuments. The results created a highly efficient work programme and maintenance philosophy which keeps the cemetery in exceptional visual condition within the cost constraints of the trust.

For around 5 years I have been researching the individual members of the 15th Battalion Royal Scots, also known as the 1st Edinburgh Pals battalion. A huge number were killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Further heavy losses were taken in the Battle of Arras. These men were half from Manchester and its surrounding area and half from Edinburgh and Fife. Research has involved going to the various battle sites and grave locations and visiting their home towns to locate them on UK war memorials. Library research includes trailing through lists of dead and wounded from newspapers of the period, Census records, notices of births and deaths, and scouring school Roles of Honour. Occasionally I will visit descendants of those in the battalion and be given copies of letters etc from the period. Research demonstrates that a large percentage were underage at the time of enlistment, some apparently as young as 14.

More recent areas of research include Scottish Sculptors and Scottish architects and architectural practices of the 19th century. Major research in the past included a fully comprehensive study of all the sculpture on the Scott Monument. I am currently working on creating (or upgrading) articles for every Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Media

In earlier years I have helped with film research on projects such as Film Four's "Conquest of the South Pole" (set in Leith). And background research for radio programmes such as the Life of Thomas de Quincey starring Russell Hunter.

A rather obscure Channel 4 comedy series called "The Creatives" was "set" at my home on Shore Place in Leith, with opening credits filmed there.

2012 was a busy year with (unscreened) filming for Channel 4's "Secret Restorers" at John Street Portobello, and tours and background for Mark Steel's in Town: Leith filmed during the 2012 Edinburgh Festival. The 2013 BBC documentary, "The Planners", also had much filming of me regarding a new Sainsburys Local on Portobello High Street. This was due to be screened in February 2013 but was not screened due to the story being inconclusive.

I administer an Arabic English-speaking website "The Truth About English" and am also a major contributor on the page "Photography is an Art so be an Artist".

I have been editing and writing new articles on Wikipedia for seven years. The only bias I have ever experienced was the total deletion of a very well-researched and time-consuming article on the Cuban film Y Soy Cuba which was deliberately balanced in its incorporation of American influence and references throughout.

Travel

I lived in Boston USA for a brief summer and have also toured Russia in pre-Glasnost days and East Berlin prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall. However, I am particularly well travelled in Europe, going to Germany more or less every year for the last 20 years (in that time covering most of the country), Italy every year for the last 10 years (again covering most of the country), Belgium around 6 times, France around 8 times, and Poland 6 times and Czech Republic 5 times. More minor visits covered variously Portugal, Spain, Greece, Holland, Austria, Estonia and Hungary. My interests are particularly city-based. Having my best friend Nicolas Prechtel in Dresden it is a particularly regular base and has been visited by myself 15 times, including once to help survey the flood damage of the summer of 2002. My favourite city is certainly Venice which I last visited to see in New Year for 2017.

Apart from English, I speak Doric (traditional Scots), French and some Italian, Polish, German, Spanish, Czech and Portuguese. I speak a little Arabic, Swahili and ChiShona.

Teaching and Lecturing

I was a teacher of Local History at Adult Education level: a course of twenty 2 hour lectures per year.

1987-1991 – History of Leith, based at Old Leith Academy
1991-1994 – History of Edinburgh and Leith, based at new Leith Academy.
1994-1995 - History of Edinburgh and Leith, based at Broughton Primary School
1995-1997 – History of Edinburgh and Leith, based at Broughton High School

As this role was under the umbrella of Lothian Regional Council (as with all local teaching posts) at the point of amalgamation of Lothian Regional Council with Edinburgh District Council in 1996, I was in a fairly unique position of being employed by both bodies.

I lecture on a regular basis, invariably at no charge, to Rotary International, Probus Groups, local church or community groups, library talks, local festivals etc. I also give numerous free tours of the architecture and history of my area. I also commonly give tours of Greyfriars Kirkyard, Old Calton Cemetery and Dean Cemetery.

More unusual talks include:

“The Differences Between English English and US English”, Boston, USA, August 1983
“The History of Leith”, RIAS annual lecture, 1986
“The Villa Areas of Edinburgh”- Civilising the City Conference, Edinburgh, March 1990
" The Gretna Rail Disaster" various presentations 1989 onwards
“The History of Gravestones and Inscriptions” – Stirling, January 2008
“The History of Public Houses and Pub Architecture” Edinburgh (several repeats) 2004-2006
"A Comparison of Dean Cemetery and Warriston Cemetery" for the Mausoleum and Monument Trust, September 2012.
“Dating by means of Stonework Patterns and Windows on Vernacular Buildings” EAA final lecture of 2012.

I currently give advice to several English teachers in Mexico, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt once per week on an intellectual but casual basis. This includes administration of an Algerian website for learning English, plus advising an Egyptian web-site on Arabic to English translation.

Wikipedia Articles Created

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Other Moderators

David Bruce (minister) (Australia, 1903), Robert James Drummond (UF, 1918), John Elmslie (NZ, 1872 and 1892), Peter Lorimer (moderator) (English Presbyterian Church), Duncan Stewart McEachran (Presbyterian Church of Victoria 1885) Dugald Mackichan (United Free Church Moderator 1917), Alexander Mair (minister) (United Presbyterian Church 1899), Adam Philip (United Free Church Moderator 1921), David Ross (minister) (Australia 1919), John Tallach (Free Presbyterian 1933), Alexander Topp (Presbyterian Church of Canada 1868 and 1876), Gordon Webster (New Zealand 1898), Henry McIlree Williamson (Northern Ireland 1896), Michael Willis (minister) (Canada 1870), Alexander Yule (Victoria 1891, Australia 1901)

Lord Provosts of Edinburgh

David Aikinhead, William Alexander (Lord Provost), William Allan of Glen, Sir John Arnot, Sir John Garnett Banks, Sir William Binning, Robert Blackwood of Pitreavie, Kenneth Borthwick, Sir John Boyd of Maxpoffle, Adam Brown of Blackford, Walter Brown (Lord Provost), Sir William Slater Brown, John Byres of Coates, John William Chesser, Robert Chieslie, Sir Thomas Clark, Alexander Clerk of Pittencrieff, William Coulter (Lord Provost), Robert Cranston, Hugh Cunningham of Bonnington, James Dick of Prestonfield, William Dick of Braid, Francis Brown Douglas, John Greig Dunbar, Louis Stewart Gumley, George Haliburton (Lord Provost), John Hall of Dunglass, Alexander Henderson of Press, George Home of Kello, Sir Thomas Hutchison, Robert Kirk Inches, Sir Patrick Johnston, Jack Kane (Lord Provost), Alexander Kincaid, Gilbert Laurie, William Law (Lord Provost), Richard Lawson of High Riggs, John Learmonth, George Lind, William Little (Lord Provost), James Lumsden (Glasgow - father and son), Thomas McCalzean, Kincaid Mackenzie, Sir Samuel McClellan, John Manderston, Sir John Melville, Sir James Miller, Sir Archibald Muir, William Nisbet of Dean, Sir William Lowrie Sleigh, Donald Smith (banker), John Smith of Grothill, James Spittal, Sir James Steel, David Steuart (Lord Provost), Archibald Stewart (Lord Provost), James Stuart of Binend, William Johnston Thomson, Archibald Tod, Thomas Tod, William Trotter (cabinet-maker), Nicol Uddert, Duncan Weatherstone, Thomas Barnby Whitson, John Wightman of Mauldslie

Lord Provosts of Glasgow

John Aird, John Thomas Alston, William Rae Arthur, Sir James Bain, Sir James Bell, Sir William Bilsland, John Blackie, Andrew Buchanan of Drumpellier and his son James Buchanan of Drumpellier, John Campbell of Clathick, Mungo Campbell, Peter Clouston, Andrew Cochrane, Arthur Connell, John Coulter (Lord Provost), Lawrence Craigie, Robert Dalglish, Tommy Dingwall, Lawrence Dinwiddie, Colin Dunlop of Carmyle, Henry Dunlop of Craigton, Andrew Galbraith, Walter Gibson, Robert Grahame of Whitehill, Sir William Gray, Gilbert Hamilton of Glenarbuck, John Hamilton (Lord Provost), Alexander Hastie, Archibald Ingram, Sir Donald Liddle, James McDowall, William McOnie, Sir David Mason, William Mills, Henry Monteith, Matthew Walker Montgomery, Sir John Muir, George Murdoch (Lord Provost), John Murdoch of Rosebank, Peter Murdoch of Rosehill, Sir Andrew Orr, John Ure Primrose, Sir David Richmond, Dame Jean Roberts, Robert Rodger, William Smith of Carbeth Guthrie, Matthew Stewart of Minto, John Stirling (Lord Provost), John Ure, Victor Warren

Lord Provosts of Aberdeen

Alexander Anderson (Lord Provost of Aberdeen), William Cruden (provost), Gavin Hadden (provost), James Jopp, William Leslie of Nethermuir, Sir Andrew J. W. Lewis, Thomas Leys, Sir Alexander Lyon, Daniel Mearns, William Meff, Alexander Robertson of Glasgowego, James Reid Rust, Sir James Taggart, James Walker of Richmondhill, Edward William Watt

Other Provosts

Sir John Anthony (Govan), Sir Richard Mackie (Leith), James Pringle (Provost) (Leith), John Pullar (Perth), Alexander Riddoch (Dundee)

Female Heroes

Phyllis Bone, Florence St John Cadell, Dr Grace Cadell, Dr Agnes Marshall Cowan, Margaret Neill Fraser, Dr Jessie Gellatly, Lady Henrietta Gilmour (photographer), Anne Grant (author), Mary Grant (sculptor), Amelia Robertson Hill, Helen Kerr, Dr Sybil Lewis, Elizabeth Liddell (artist), Khadijah Mellah (jockey), Dr Nora Miller, Dr Alice Moorhead, Dame Jean Roberts, Tibbie Shiel

Naval Officers

Admiral John Carter Allen, Rear Admiral Septimus Arabin, Rear Admiral James Bisset, Admiral James Paterson Bower, Vice Admiral Alexander Boyle, John Brisbane (Royal Navy officer), Commodore Thomas Collingwood, Rear Admiral Robert Craigie, Rear Admiral Sir Digby Dent, Rear Admiral William Duddingston, Rear Admiral John Macpherson Ferguson, Alexander Fraser (Royal Navy officer), Thomas Fraser (Royal Navy officer), Admiral Major Jacob Henniker, John Inglis (Royal Navy officer), Commander Alexander Karley, Commodore Reginald Thomas John Levinge, Thomas Livingston (Royal Navy officer), Admiral Francis Erskine Loch, Admiral Sir Frederick Thomas Michell, Admiral Sampson Michell (Portugal/Brazil), Vice Admiral Dashwood Fowler Moir, Admiral Salmon Morrice, Cpt James Robert Mosse, Rear Admiral John Toup Nicolas, Admiral David Peat, Captain Taylor Penny, Vice Admiral George Anson Primrose, Admiral Sir William Ramsay, Vice Admiral Thomas Revell Shivers, Captain Lancelot Skynner, Admiral Pringle Stoddart, Rear Admiral James Haldane Tait, Thomas Western (Royal Navy officer), Richard Willis (Royal Navy officer), Sir Isaac Wilson (physician)

British army officers

Major General William Allan (British Army officer), General William John Arabin, Surgeon Major Alexander Watt Beveridge, Major General Nicholas Carnegie (HEIC), Captain Edward Cheney (Waterloo), William Franklin (physician), Brigadier General William Stevenson Jaffray (chaplain), Major General John Pringle (British Army officer), Thomas Reynell (British Army officer), Lt Gen William Strode (British Army officer), Brigadier GeneralHerbert Conyers Surtees, Major General John Munro Sym, Major General James Conway Victor

Protestant Archbishops and Bishops

John Abernethy (bishop of Caithness), James Boyd of Trochrig, William Erskine (archbishop), Robert Hamilton (bishop), Hector McLaine (bishop), Robert Montgomerie (archbishop), Walter Stewart (archbishop), John Young (Bishop of Argyll)

Scottish Clergy

David Arnot (minister), Rev Lewis Balfour, James Barclay (minister) (footballer), Robert Barron (minister), Rev Dr Archibald Bennie, John Bruce (minister), Alexander Bryce (minister), Rev Dugald Butler, Rev Prof Peter Colin Campbell, Rev James Smith Candlish, Rev David Carment, Rev Prof G. N. M. Collins, Rev Prof John Cook (historian), Rev Dr George Ramsay Davidson, Rev Thomas Randall Davidson, Rev Prof Daniel Dewar, Rev David Dickson the Elder, Rev Prof John Dobie (linguist), Rev Prof James Fairlie, Rev Robert Howie Fisher, David Fletcher (bishop), William Gloag (minister), Rev William Gusthart, James Hannay (minister), William Harlaw, James Hart (minister), Rev Alexander Hetherwick, Peter Hewat (minister), Robert Howie (principal), Rev Peter Hay Hunter, William Jack (principal), John Jardine (minister), Rev James Maxwell Joass, David Johnston (minister), Rev Dr Thomas Snell Jones, James Kirkton, John Knox (rebel minister), Rev James Lapslie, Rev Mungo Law, Rev William Leask, Rev Prof Robert Lee (minister), David Leitch (minister), Rev Robert Lippe, James Lundie (minister), Rev William Currie McDougall, Rev Dr William McQuhae, Neil McVicar (minister), Rev Thomas Marjoribanks, Hugh Martin (Scottish minister), Maitland Moir (priest), John Mathieson (minister), Robert Monteith of Salmonet, George Muirhead (minister), James Murray (historian), James Nisbet (minister), Rev James Noble (geologist), William Paul (minister), George Paxton (minister), David Rait, Alexander Ramsay (minister), Robert Ramsay (principal), Rev William Robertson (urban missionary), Rev William Robertson (1686-1745), Rev Charles Salmond, Rev James Scott (antiquarian), Alexander Scrogie, Bishop William Scrogie, Rev Samuel Semple, John Somerville (minister),, John Stirling (principal), Archibald Stobo (Darien), James Struthers, William Struthers, John Stuart (Edinburgh minister), Malcolm Campbell Taylor, Archibald Turner (minister), Rev Dr James Veitch (minister), Rev George Wilson of Glenluce, Rev Alexander Stoddart Wilson, William Lyall Wilson, James Wodrow, Edward Wright (principal).

Other Notable Scots

David Laird Adams, Sir Philip Ainslie, Dr James Arrott, Henry Bellyse Baildon, Dr John Balmanno, James Barron (harbour engineer), Alexander Bethune (poet) and his brother John Bethune (poet), John Bethune (FRS), James Bonar (philanthropist), Prof Francis Darby Boyd, Andrew Betts Brown, John Brunton (manufacturer), James Buchanan (1785-1857), William Burns (Scottish historian), Robert Carfrae, David W. T. Cargill (art collector), Robert Carrick (banker), Robert Hodshon Cay, Sir John Cheyne (advocate), Sir Alexander Christison, David Christison, Dr Campbell Clark, Sir John Connell, Sir William Robertson Copland, Robert Corse (Darien), Alexander Cowan (philanthropist), Sir John Cowan (steel merchant), Robert Craig of Riccarton, John Cruickshank (mathematician), Alexander Ormiston Curle, Mark Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, George Davidson of Pettens (philanthropist), James Deas (engineer), Thomas Dickson (antiquary), William Dickson (MP), Andrew Halliday Douglas, Patrick Dun (educator), William Jolly Duncan FRS, John Gibb Dunlop (shipbuilder), Nathaniel Dunlop, Prof Keith Dyce, Prof Kenneth Fearon, Richard Findlay (broadcaster), David Taylor Fish, William Galloway (architectural historian), James Gillespie (philanthropist), Gilbert Goudie, John Gray (Old Jock), James Young Gibson, Sir Douglas Hardie, James Hedderwick, Sir James Hodsdon, John Howkins (civil engineer), William Hurst (civil engineer), Francis Brodie Imlach (dental pioneer), Sir Robert Inches, James Sligo Jameson (explorer), Sir William Allan Jamieson (physician), Prof James Jeffray, Frederick Charles Kennedy, Sir Archibald Gordon Kinloch, 7th Baronet (murderer), Dr Thomas Latta, James Leatham, James Leslie (principal), Sir Patrick Lindesay, John Lyon (botanist), Alastair Macintyre (presenter), Paul MacKenzie (physician), Gillian Maclaine, Elizabeth Macneal, Prof Alexander William Mair, James Melvin, Rev Prof Allan Menzies, Daniel Miller (engineer), George Mills (shipbuilder), Andrew Moir (anatomist), William Moir, William Beatton Moonie, Claud Muirhead, Prof James Muirhead (scholar), Sir William Murrie, James Nicholson (poet), Rev Dr Maxwell Nicholson, Peter Orphoot (dentist), John Osborne (principal), Robert Paterson (principal), George Pirie (mathematician), Alexander Mactier Pirrie, William Fettes Pitcairn, Robert Pollock (principal), James Pringle (Provost), Andrew Provand, Edmund Pullar, Prof Thomas Purdie FRS, Harry Rainy, Robert Carstairs Reid, Robert Rintoul, James Robertson (surveyor), J. H. Ronaldson, John Merry Ross, Sir Henry Simson, Basil Skinner, Robert Scot Skirving, George Smith (1833-1919), Neil Snodgrass (inventor), Peter Spalding, Dr John W. L. Spence (x-ray pioneer), John Stirling of Kippendavie, William Sutherland, 18th Earl of Sutherland, Francis Darby Syme (coolie trader), Crauford Tait WS, David Taylor (poet), Prof David Thomson (physicist), Prof Henry Alexis Thomson, William Thomson (physician), James W. H. Trail, Robert de Bruce Trotter, William Veitch, James Watson (printer), Patrick Heron Watson (surgeon), Joseph Laing Waugh, Peter Williamson (Indian Peter), Sir Alexander Kemp Wright (banker).

Veterinarians

David Argyle, Orlando Charnock Bradley, J. R. U. Dewar, William Dick (veterinarian), Keith Dyce, Col James Hallen, Richard Halliwell (veterinarian), William McGregor Mitchell, Arthur Olver, Alexander Robertson (veterinary surgeon), Morley Sewell, Sir Stewart Stockman, Thomas Walley

Films

Booby Trap (1957 film), Her Painted Hero (1915), Robin Redbreast (TV film), The House of Intrigue (1956 film), New Towns for Old (1942), None Shall Escape, The Tin Drum (film), The Battle of Sinai (film), Operation Cross Eagles, Sally Sallies Forth (1928), A Hash House Fraud (1915), Feet of Mud (1924). Fiddlesticks (1927 film), The Hansom Cabman (1924), Plain Clothes (1925 film), The Luck o' the Foolish (1924), Berth 24 (1950 documentary), Don't Be Foolish (1922), The Cross Red Nurse (1918), Out of the Fog (1962 film)

Figures of the Reformation

Joachim von Beust, Gregor Brück (Luther's lawyer), Christian Döring (Bible publisher), William Harlaw, Andreas Schato, János Sylvester

Edinburgh

Advocates Close, Cramond Kirk, Crawford's Biscuits, Dundas Riots (1792), Edinburgh Smashers Club, Edinburgh Wax Museum, Charles Hamilton Fasson (ERI) Great Fire of Edinburgh (1824), Heriot Row, Lady Glenorchy's Church, Lost Street Names in Edinburgh, Pillans & Wilson, Ramage & Ferguson (shipbuilders), Sketchy Beats (arts concept), Whitefoord House, John Dowie's Tavern, Cooke's Royal Circus, Waverley Steps, Romanes & Paterson, York Place, Edinburgh, The Shore, Leith

Living People

Yanni Agisilaou, Louise Giblin, Elizabeth Macneal, Guy Portelli, Morley Sewell, Andrea Darvi.

Actors

Dora Mills Adams, Chris Alcaide (western baddie), Michael Alldredge, Mary Adams (actress), Sheila Bernette, Billie Brockwell, Karl Davis (actor), Geoffrey Denton (actor), Jean Driant, Fella Edmonds, Hal Landon Jr., Tony Millan, Ingo Mogendorf, Eileen Moore, Griffiths Moss, Hugh Moxey, Sam Reese, Tiny Ward, John Warren (actor)

Medicines

Askit Powders, William Henry Veno (Veno's)

Dundee

Siege of Dundee (1651), Tayside Meal Mobs, Western Cemetery, Dundee

Ships and Shipbuilding

Sir Jacob Ackworth, Edward Allin (HMS Victory), and his father Sir Joseph Allin, HMS Antelope (1802), John Barnard (shipbuilder) and his son William Barnard (shipbuilder), HMS Bideford (1756), Blaydes Yard, Thomas Bucknall, William Castle (shipbuilder), HMS Deal Castle (1756), HMS Devastation (1841), Nicholas Diddams, Adam Hayes, Edward Hunt (Surveyor of the Navy), HMS Hussar (1807), James Laing (shipbuilder), Peirson Lock, John Naish (shipbuilder), Henry Peake, Christopher Pett, Thomas Pollard (shipbuilder), Israel Pownoll, Ramage & Ferguson, William Rule (Surveyor of the Navy), HMS Sapphire (1758), HMS Saucy (1918) (tug), HMS Scarborough (1756), Richard Stacey, HMS Success (1740), HMS Tavistock (1745), John Tippetts , John Williams (Surveyor of the Navy)

Murders

Lorenz Beha, Browne and Kennedy, Robert Coombes (murderer), Charles John Drew, Driscoll and Rowlands, Catherine Foster (murderer), John Graham, Lord Hallyards, Carl Hau, Annie Hearn, Sir Archibald Gordon Kinloch, 7th Baronet, Limeslade Mystery, James Mackcoull, Ethel Major, Donald Merrett, Nicol Muschat, James Canham Read

Lost or Abandoned Houses

Amisfield House, Ardmillan Castle, Elibank Castle, Glendevon Castle, Kelvingrove House, Murthly House, Rosneath House

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Architects

John Begg, Hippolyte Blanc, William Burn, Edward Calvert (architect), Archibald Elliot, Reginald Fairlie, John Fairweather, James Gillespie Graham, John Henderson (architect), John Kinross, Alexander Laing (architect), William Leiper, Ian Lindsay, Sir Frank Mears, John Paterson (architect), John Dick Peddie, Robert Reid (architect), David Rhind, John Thomas Rochead, James Sellars, John Moyr Smith, J. J. Stevenson

Sculptors

John Bacon (sculptor, born 1777), Thomas Banks, William Behnes, Francis Bird, William Brodie (sculptor), Agostino Carlini, John Cheere, Thomas J Clapperton, Joseph Durham, Robert Forrest, Giovanni Battista Guelphi, Ernst Julius Hähnel (G), John Hickey (sculptor), Peter Hollins, Humphrey Hopper, Lawrence Macdonald, James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, William Calder Marshall, John Mossman, Patric Park, John Rhind (sculptor), William Birnie Rhind, Henry Scheemakers, Peter Scheemakers, Edward Stanton (sculptor) and his father William Stanton (mason), John Steell, David Watson Stevenson, William Grant Stevenson, William Theed the elder, William Tyler, John van Nost, William Wauer (G), Charles Molloy Westmacott, Richard Westmacott (the younger), Joseph Whitehead (sculptor), Alice Meredith Williams, Joseph Wilton

Cemeteries and Churchyards

Brompton Cemetery, Dean Cemetery, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Grange Cemetery, The Howff (Dundee), Inveresk Graveyard/Cemetery, Kensal Green Cemetery, Rosebank Cemetery, St Cuthberts Churchyard, St John's Churchyard, Old St Pancras Churchyard, London, St Machar's Cathedral, Sudfriedhof (Cologne),Warriston Cemetery

Artists

William Bonnar, John Crawford Brown, Robert Burns (artist), James Drummond (artist), Thomas Duncan (painter), David Foggie, John Strickland Goodall, Sir James Guthrie, David Hay (artist), Niels Moeller Lund, William York Macgregor, Sir Daniel Macnee, William MacTaggart, Thomas Corsan Morton, Erskine Nicol, James Campbell Noble, Simon Francois Ravenet, William Stott (artist), Phoebe Traquair, William Walker (engraver born 1791)

Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

John Abercrombie (physician), Alexander Adie, Sir Stair Agnew, Thomas Allan, Isaac Anderson-Henry, John Anderson (pathologist), John Anderson (Scottish engineer), Thomas Annandale, William Arthur (mathematician), Sir John Atwell, Thomas Balfour, Edmund Bruce Ball, Archibald Barr, John Christopher Bartholomew, John (Ian) Bartholomew, Dr James Begbie, Ferdinand Faithfull Begg, Archibald Bell (writer), Ronald Percy Bell, Sir George Andreas Berry, James Black (scientist), Rev Matthew Black, Walter Biggar Blaikie, Robert Blair (astronomer), Dr Norman Bor, Robert Henry Bow, Frederick Orpen Bower, John Buckley Bradbury, William Brand (botanist), William Thomas Brande, Percy Wragg Brian, Frederick Tom Brooks, Robert Bruce, Lord Kennet, Alexander Bryson, Alexander Buchan (meteorologist), John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir (adventurer), Alick Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno, Joseph Langley Burchnall, James Burgess (archaeologist), John Burnett (advocate), Dr Keith Burton (physicist), Samuel Butcher (classicist), Henry Cadell (geologist), William Archibald Cadell, John Morrison Caie (poet), John Caird (theologian), Rev Robert S. Calderwood, Harold Garnet Callan, John Cameron, Lord Cameron (law lord), Sir Ilay Campbell, Sir John Carroll (astronomer), George Chisholm (geographer), Sir Robert Christison, George Chrystal, Alfred Joseph Clark, Sir Hugh Cleghorn (colonial administrator), Rev Robert Cleghorn, Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet, Sir John Clerk, 5th Baronet, Andrew Constable, Lord Constable, Ralph Copeland, Henry Cotterill, Andrew Coventry, Charles Cowan MP, David Craigie, Donald Crawford MP, William Creech, Andrew Crosbie of Holm, Henry Cullen, Robert Cullen, Lord Cullen, Alexander Cumming (instrument maker), Daniel John Cunningham, Sir William Gibson-Craig, Henry Cullen, Robert Curran (physician), Sir Alastair Currie, Sir David Cuthbertson, Nicol Alexander Dalzell, Sir William Darling (politician), Duncan Davidson (died 1881) MP, Prof Norman Davidson (biochemist), Sir Stanley Davidson, Philip Dee, Charles Dickson, Lord Dickson, Henry Newton Dickson, Alexander Dirom, Sir James Johnston Dobbie, James Donaldson (classical scholar), Prof Norman Dott, David Douglas, Lord Reston, George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton, Henry Drummond (evangelist), George Dunbar (classical scholar), Sir David Dundas, John Colin Dunlop, Prof George Dunnet, William Edge (mathematician), George Francis Scott Elliot, Walter Elliot (Scottish politician), Ivor Malcolm Haddon Etherington, Arthur Humble Evans, James Cossar Ewart, James Ewing (MP), Rev Valentine Faithfull, James Falshaw (Lord Provost), Sir John Bretland Farmer, Norman Feather, John Ferguson (chemist), Robert McNair Ferguson, Robert Ferguson of Raith, George Fergusson, Lord Hermand, Bill Ferrar, Sir Edmund Findlay, John Fleming (naturalist), John Fleming (Gatton and Saltash MP) (botanist), Robert Flint, Alexander Campbell Fraser, Sir John Fraser (surgeon), Thomas Richard Fraser, Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, Elias Magnus Fries, Andrew Fyfe (chemist), John Gaddum, Dr Sampson Gamgee, Francis Garden (theologian), Prof Alan Gemmell, Thomas Neville George, Very Rev Alexander Gerard, Walcot Gibson, Sir Henry Gidney, Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Prof John Glaister (father and son), Prof John Goodsir, Major General William Driscoll Gosset, Robert Graham (botanist), Thomas Grainger (railway engineer), Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet, Sir Alistair Grant, Sir James Grant, 8th Baronet, James Shaw Grant, Lewis Grant-Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Seafield, James Gray (mathematician), Prof James Gregory (physician), Percy H. Grimshaw, Henry B. Guppy, Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie, Dr Douglas Guthrie, John Hall-Edwards (x-ray pioneer), Robert Kerr Hannay, Sir Charles Robert Harington, Prof Sydney Harland, Sir William Abbott Herdman, Percy Theodore Herring, John William Heslop-Harrison, Dr David Berry Hart, David Hay (artist), Denys Hay, Sir John Hay, 6th Baronet, Matthew Forster Heddle, Sir John Henderson, 5th Baronet, Sir William MacGregor Henderson, Very Rev Robert Henry, Sir Edmund Hirst, Olaf Holtedahl, Henry Home-Drummond, William Evans Hoyle, Robert Hunter, Baron Hunter of Newington, William Hunter (surgeon), Edward Lindsay Ince, John Inglis, Lord Glencorse, Alexander Taylor Innes, Cosmo Innes, James Irvine (chemist), Henry Jack, Sir John Jackson (engineer), George Auldjo Jamieson, Rev John Jamieson, James Jardine, Herbert Spencer Jennings, Christopher Nicholson Johnston, James Finlay Weir Johnston, Alexander Keiller (physician), Prof Charles Kemball, Robert Foster Kennedy, Robert Kidston, William King (engineer), Alexander Kinnear, 1st Baron Kinnear, Joseph Fairweather Lamb, Prof John Newport Langley, Malcolm Laurie, Thomas Laycock (physiologist), George James Lidstone, Robert Lim, John Lizars, William Lochead, James Lorimer (advocate), Maurice Lugeon, Prof Graham Lusk, George Fosbery Lyster, Sir Peter MacCallum, Sir George Macdonald (archaeologist), Sir John Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh, Thomas Logie MacDonald, John McDougall (rugby union), Sir John McFadyean, John Muirhead Macfarlane, Prof James Gordon MacGregor, Dr John Macintyre (radiologist), Henry Mackenzie, Donald Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie, Andrew Douglas Maclagan, John McLaren, Lord McLaren, Prof Walter McLeod, Sir Daniel Macnee (artist), Charles McNeil (physician), Thomas Murray MacRobert, George C. McVittie, Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple, John Malcolm (professor), Francis Marshall (physiologist), Irvine Masson, Sir John Maxwell (politician), John Clerk Maxwell, John Hall Maxwell, Jonathan Campbell Meakins, Gilbert Laing Meason, George F. Merson, John Miller (engineer), David Milne-Home, Joseph Mitchell (engineer), Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baronet, Alexander Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff, James Montgomery, 2nd Baronet, Very Rev James Francis Montgomery, John Shank More, Rev Robert Morehead, General Sir William Morison (politician), Clifford H. Mortimer, John Muir (indologist), Robert Muir (pathologist), Thomas Muir (mathematician), Robert Munro (archaeologist), Charles Murray, Lord Murray, Hugh Murray (geographer), Prof James Musgrove, Macvey Napier, Louis Albert Necker, Joseph Shield Nicholson, Alexander Nimmo, Mary Noble, Charles Henry O'Donoghue, Noel Odell, Cyril Offord, Sir William Gammie Ogg, Michael Oliver (cardiologist), T. T. Paterson, Diarmid Noel Paton, Sir William Peck (astronomer), Dr Alexander Peddie, Prof William Peddie, George Hector Percival, Sir Rudolph Peters, Prof James Petrie, Hans Pettersson, Robert William Philip, Harvey Pirie, Robert Pitcairn (antiquary), James Playfair (minister), Sir John Donald Pollock, Mungo Ponton, Charles Edward Price (biscuits), Sir Robert Pullar, Richard Pulteney, Edward Ramsay (Dean Ramsay), John Ramsay of Ochtertyre, Prof Ralph Raphael, Herbert Harold Read, G. Archdall Reid, Arthur David Ritchie, James Ritchie (naturalist), Alexander William Roberts, Rev A. E. Robertson (mountaineer), William Robertson (historian), Harold Roper Robinson, John Robison (inventor), Sir Hugh Robson (educator), J. M. Robson, Sir James Alexander Russell (Lord Provost), Daniel Rutherford, Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd, Ralph Allan Sampson, Daniel Sandford (Bishop of Tasmania), Edward Sang, William Saunders (physician), Leonhard Schmitz, John Halliday Scott, William Young Sellar, George Seton, The Hon John Webb Seymour, Napier Shaw, Wilson Sibbett, Robert Silver, Sir Alexander Russell Simpson, John Sinclair (Archdeacon of Middlesex),James Skene, Alexander Smith (chemist), Very Rev George Adam Smith, James Smith of Jordanhill, James Lorrain Smith, James Parker Smith, John Smith (dentist), Norman Kemp Smith, Robert Allan Smith, Sydney Smith (forensic expert), David Smythe, Lord Methven, Prof Ian Sneddon, William Somerville (physician), James Spence (surgeon), Prof Edward Percy Stebbing, Prof John Steggall, Henry Stephens (agriculturalist), Alan Stevenson, Charles Alexander Stevenson (lighthouse engineer), David Stevenson (engineer), David Alan Stevenson (lighthouse engineer), D. Alan Stevenson, J. J. Stevenson, Matthew Stewart (mathematician), Thomas Grainger Stewart, Lord Stormonth-Darling, Friedrich Stromeyer, Jean-Joseph Sue and his son Pierre Sue, John Derg Sutherland, Richard Lightburn Sutton, William Swan (physicist), Wladyslaw Szafer, Canon Andrew Tait, Sir George Taylor (botanist), Rt Rev Charles Terrot, Robert Thalen, Arthur Thomson (naturalist) and his son Arthur Landsborough Thomson, Sir Godfrey Thomson, Thomas Stewart Traill, Rev Dr William Trail, Rt Rev Walter Trower, Sir William Turner (anatomist), Benjamin Vaughan, Nicolas Vilant, Sir James Walker (chemist), George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace, William Wallace (mathematician), A. D. Walsh, W. H. Walsh, James Alfred Wanklyn, Very Rev Charles Warr, Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet, John Steven Watson, Sir Patrick Heron Watson, William J. Watson, William Whitehead Watts, Sir William Weipers, Rev David Welsh, Sir David Wilkie (surgeon), Prof William Williams (veterinarian), George Wilson (chemist), James Wilson (zoologist), John Wishart (statistician), Henry Witham, Harry Harvey Wood (Edinburgh Festival), Sir German Sims Woodhead, James Mann Wordie, Thomas Wright (geologist), V. C. Wynne-Edwards, Andrew Young (schoolmaster and poet)

Moderators of the Church of Scotland

Peter Blackburn (bishop) (1597), Peter Brodie (minister) (1979), James Cooper (minister) (1917), William Dalrymple (moderator) (1781), Alexander Gerard (1764), Robert Gordon (minister) (1841), John Gowdie (1733), William Hamilton (university principal) (1712,1716,1720,1727,1730), Robert Henry (1774), Alexander Hume (poet) (1602,1604,1607), William Johnston (minister) (1980), Daniel Lamont (1936), John Marshall Lang (1893), John Lee (university principal) (1844), Hugh Mackintosh (1932), William Ritchie (moderator) (1801), James Smith (university principal) (1723 and 1731), Lauchlan Watt (1933), David Welsh (1842), Thomas Wilkie (1701 + 1704), William Wishart (primus) (1706 + four other periods), William Wishart (secundus) (1745)

Moderators of the Free Church of Scotland

James Begg (1865), Andrew Bonar (1878), David Brown (1885), Patrick Fairbairn (1864), Henry Grey (minister) (1844), Thomas M'Crie the Younger (1856), Robert Rainy (1887), Thomas Smith (missionary) (1891), Walter Chalmers Smith (1893), Alexander Moody Stuart (1875)

Other Moderators

Andrew Cameron (Presbyterian minister) (NZ), John Inglis (missionary) (Reformed Presbyterian 1861), George Adam Smith (United Free Church - 1916)

Lord Provosts of Edinburgh

Charles Lawson, James Wilson McKay, John Lorne MacLeod, James Alexander Russell

Victoria Cross Winners

Walter Lorrain Brodie, James Dundas, Samuel Evans (VC), Allan Ker, Donald MacKintosh (VC), William McBean, Arthur Frederick Saunders

Senators of the College of Justice

William Baillie, Lord Polkemmet, William Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne, Andrew Constable, Lord Constable, Robert Crichton (Lord Advocate), William James Cullen, Lord Cullen, Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar, David Fleming, Lord Fleming, John Hay Forbes, Lord Medwyn, Patrick Fraser (Lord Fraser), Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies, Alexander Irving, Lord Newton, Alan Johnston, Lord Johnston, Christopher Nicholson Johnston, Lord Sands, David MacGill, Donald Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie, Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple, John Marshall, Lord Curriehill, Thomas Miller, Lord Glenlee, Alexander Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff, Thomas Brash Morison, Lord Morison, Alexander Murray, Lord Henderland, Charles Murray, Lord Murray, William Penney, Lord Kinloch, Andrew Pringle, Lord Alemore, William Prosser, Lord Prosser, David Rae, Lord Eskgrove, Hercules Robertson, Lord Benholme, Patrick Robertson, Lord Robertson, Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd, Edward Theodore Salvesen (Lord Salvesen), David Smythe, Lord Methven, James Veitch, Lord Elliock, George Young, Lord Young

Female Heroes

Isabella Bird, Mary Crudelius, Isabella Pringle, Harriet Siddons, Agnes Grainger Stewart

Scottish Clergy

James Bannerman (theologian), Rev John Barclay (Berean), William Laurence Brown, Andrew Bruce (bishop), James Buchanan (minister), Andrew Cant (bishop), Andrew Cant (educator), Henry Charteris, William Colvill, Alexander Douglas (bishop), George Douglas (bishop), Rev James Gall, Bishop John Hamilton of Blair, William Hay (bishop), Rev William Maxwell Hetherington, Rev Cameron Lees, Rev Dr Thomas Liddell, Bishop William Lindsay of Dowhill, John Longmuir (poet), Rev George Matheson, Andrew Ramsay (minister), Dean Ramsay, Rev Hew Scott (Fasti), George Smeaton (theologian), Robert Herbert Story, David Strachan (bishop), Rev William King Tweedie, Rev Wallace Williamson

Other Notable Scots

James Baird (industrialist), James Balfour (philosopher), John Montgomerie Bell, Sir Robert Duncan Bell, Robert Tuite Boothby,, George Burnett, Lord Lyon, Sir John Harrison Burnett, General Sir John Campbell (1802–1878), Elizabeth Clephane (hymnwriter), Robert Hunter Craig, Kenneth Craik, William Creech, William Kirk Dickson, Stewart Duke-Elder, Finlay Dun, James Dunlop (footballer), Henry Ogg Forbes, Major General James Forlong, John Galt (novelist), Dr Hector Gavin, Robert Gilfillan (poet), John George Govan, Admiral Alexander Graeme, John Gulland MP, Ian Clark Hutchison MP, James Jardine (civil engineer), Prof Robert William Johnstone, William Knox (Scottish poet), David Laing (antiquary), Aeneas MacBean WS, Prof W. J. M. Mackenzie, Frederick Moir (African Lakes Corporation), Thomas Arthur Nelson, Mary Noble, George Outram, Herbert J. Paterson, Cpt William Penny, Robert Pitcairn (antiquary) and his cousin William Fettes Pitcairn, Hugh Lyon Playfair, Dr Isabella Pringle, Andrew Provand (MP), Alexander Reid (art dealer), James Rolland, John Scott (British Army officer), John Sinclair (Ayr Burghs MP), Alexander Smollett, Patrick Boyle Smollett, James Thin, James Towers (obstetrician), Frank Worthing (actor)

Villages and Towns

Aberdalgie, Auchtermuchty, Caputh, Perth and Kinross, Collace, Creich, Crook of Devon, Dunning, Grandtully, Strathmiglo, Lasswade, Muckhart, Penicuik, Newburn, Fife, Ochtertyre, Townhill, Fife

Edinburgh

Barnton, Edinburgh, Colinton Parish Church, Comely Bank, Craigentinny, Duddingston Kirk, Inch, Edinburgh, Liberton, Edinburgh, Newington, Edinburgh, Prestonfield, Edinburgh, Queen Street, Edinburgh, Queensberry House, South Bridge, Edinburgh, West Coates

German Towns

Elstra, Großenhain, Nebelschütz, Panschwitz-Kuckau, Zabeltitz

Films

Be Kind Rewind, Dead of Night, Dulcima, The Tailor from Ulm, None Shall Escape, Osaka Elegy, Utamaro and His Five Women, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums, Meteora (film), Taxi to the Dark Side, The Tin Star, The Piper (film), Pardon Us, Jumping for Joy, Portrait of Clare, Pink String and Sealing Wax, Fatty Joins the Force, Love, Loot and Crash, The Rogue, The Candy Kid, The Hobo (1917), On the Front Page, Johnny Come Lately, Strange Holiday (1945 film), He's in Again, Darling Lili, Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious, Girl on Approval, Theatre Royal (film), One Too Many (1916 film), Hustling for Health, Mud and Sand, Should Sailors Marry?, Kid Speed, Bromo and Juliet, Detained (film), Moby Dick (1956 film), King David (film), The Shriek of Araby, Eyewitness (1970 film), During One Night, Pie-Eyed (1925), Value for Money, The Jesse Owens Story (1984), The Iron Mule (1925), Battling Butler, The Girl on the Pier, Stick Around (film) (1925), Johnny on the Run, Up in the World, The Girl from Manhattan, Chain of Events, Passage Home, A Challenge for Robin Hood, Villa Rides, Carnival, Oh Doctor! (1917 film), The Hero (1917 film), Made in America (1993 film), Persian Lessons, An Inspector Calls (1954 film), Fanny by Gaslight (film), His Prehistoric Past, Steamboat Bill Jr., Freedom Radio, Down to the Sea in Ships (1949 film), Confession (1955 film), The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery

TV Dramas

The Chain, Edna, the Inebriate Woman

Reformation Figures

Johann Deutschmann, Paul Eber, Urbanus Rhegius, Christoph von Scheurl

Buildings

Drommedaris (tower), Dundas House, Gaddesby Hall, Holy Rude Church and graveyard, Stirling, Kinfauns Castle, Statues and Locations on the Scott Monument, St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen (RC), Yester Parish Church

Ships

HMS Alcide (1779), HMS Dublin (1757), HMT Firefly, HMS Mordaunt, HMS Norfolk (1757), HMS Resolution (1770), HMS Royal Oak (1769)

Royal Navy

Battle of the Saintes (1782), Commodore James Graham Goodenough, Robert Faulknor the younger, Vice Admiral Robert Swanton, Admiral Richard Tyrell

Portraits

In an attempt to fill gaps in Wikimedia, whilst observing copyright laws, I frequently create portraits of persons, usually in grey pastel and based on composite information. Persons portrayed are:

James Ormiston Affleck, William Burney Bannerman, Sir William Bilsland, Hippolyte Blanc, Russell Brock, Baron Brock, Andrew Betts Brown, Peter MacGregor Chalmers, Charles Clough (geologist), Thomas Jackson Crawford, Charles Findlay Davidson, Carstairs Cumming Douglas, Patrick Dudgeon, Stewart Duke-Elder, Henry Dunlop of Craigton, William Euing, Sir William Gray, John Russell Greig, James Holmes Hutchison, Frederick Hutt, John Iball, Charles Illingworth, Alexander Taylor Innes, Geoffrey Jefferson, Alan Johnston, Lord Johnston, Christopher Nicholson Johnston, Lord Sands, James Finlay Weir Johnston, William Campbell Johnston, Robert Kenedi, William Quarrier Kennedy, Sir James King, Peter Redford Scott Lang, James Learmonth, Very Rev Matthew Leishman, J. A. R. Lenman, E. A. Letts, Sybil Lewis, Robert Lickley, N. M. H. Lightfoot, Robert Lim, Eric Linklater, Robert Douglas Lockhart, John McFadyean, John Sturgeon Mackay, Donald James MacKintosh, Rev Dr James Calder Macphail, Ebenezer James MacRae, Henry Marshall (physician), C. C. Mitchell, George Arthur Mitchell,Joseph Mitchell (engineer), Pearson McAdam Muir, Hamish Munro, Charles Roy Nasmith, Victor Negus, William Newbigging, Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Sir Andrew Orr, Bartholomew Parr, Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet, William Peddie, Harold Plenderleith, John Ure Primrose, Sir Robert Pullar, Harry Rainy, Andrew Maitland Ramsay, Ralph Raphael, F. I. G. Rawlins, James Ernest Richey, Ralph Allan Sampson, John Halliday Scott, Napier Shaw, Robert Silver, George Smeaton (theologian), Charles Alexander Stevenson, William James Stuart, Rev Wallace Williamson, D. G. M. Wood-Gush

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