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Charles Robert Drysdale (1829 – 2 December 1907) was an English engineer, physician, public health scientist, and supporter of birth control. He was the first President of the Malthusian League [1] and he published books on a variety of topics including population control, syphilis, the evils of prostitution and the dangers of tobacco smoking.
1771 Robert Walker (Edinburgh: The High Kirk) 1772 Adam Fergusson ; 1773 and 1784 John Drysdale FRSE (Edinburgh: Tron) 1774 Robert Henry (Edinburgh: New Greyfriars') 1775 David Shaw (Coylton) 1776 John Ker ; 1777 James Brown (Edinburgh: New (West) Kirk, St Giles) 1778 Patrick Grant ; 1779 James Gillespie (St Andrews) 1780 Harry Spens (East Wemyss)
The baptisms and marriages of many Edinburgh luminaries took place in the Tron, one being the marriage of the famous jurist John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall on 21 January 1669, to Janet (1652–1686), daughter of Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall, 1st Baronet, and the first Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and a Senator of the College of Justice (d.1688).
Robert Lewis Drysdale [1] (born October 5, 1981) is a Brazilian-American Brazilian jiu-jitsu 4th degree black belt under Léo Vieira, a retired undefeated mixed martial artist and an instructor at his own BJJ academy.
Bessie Drysdale (née Ingram Edwards, 1871–1950) was a British teacher, suffragette activist, birth control campaigner, eugenicist and writer. She was a member of the Women’s Social and Political Union ’s (WSPU) National Executive Committee and secretary of the Malthusian League .
Denise Drysdale (born 1947), Australian entertainer; Don Drysdale (1936–1993), pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame; Dougal Drysdale, Professor Emeritus in Fire Safety Engineering at The University of Edinburgh; Douglas Drysdale (1915–1984), Scottish nationalist; Jamie Drysdale (born 2002), Canadian ice ...
Charles Douglas Drysdale (1915–1984), Scottish nationalist activist Charles Robert Drysdale (1829–1907), British physician Charles Vickery Drysdale (1874–1961), British electrical engineer and social reformer
Robert J. T. Bell: 1876–1963 mathematician Professor of Pure and Applied mathematics at the University of Otago: James W. Black: 1924–2010 physician Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1988 Joseph Black: 1728–1799 scientist carbon dioxide discoverer: Robert Blair: 1748–1828 astronomer inventor of the aplanatic lens: John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd ...