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Sir William Stevenson Gray LLD (3 May 1928 – 9 July 2000) was a 20th century Scottish business director and Chairman of Clan FM who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1972 to 1975. He was Chairman of the Scottish Special Housing Association from 1966 to 1972 and also the first Chairman of the Scottish Development Agency in 1975.
John Gray McKendrick was born in Old Machar, Aberdeen in 1841 the son of James McKendrick, an Aberdeen merchant.. He was initially apprenticed as a lawyer (1855–1861) [2] but left law to study medicine at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh before graduating in 1864 as an MB ChB. [3]
In 1836 and in competition with Thomas Carlyle, Nichol was appointed Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. [1] He became an enthusiastic and effective lecturer and made a profound impression on William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin with his introduction of the "Continental" approach to mathematical physics of Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier. [2]
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His mother was a secondary school teacher [5] and his father was a senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Chairman of the city's Goethe-Institut. [4] John Gardner attended Glasgow Academy from 1970 to 1982. [6] [7] He won (in 1982) a place to study modern languages at New College but switched to law before his first term (in 1983 ...
Macdonald was a significant influence on Anne Strachan Robertson, one of his students; her obituary states that "Her own rich contribution owed much to the influence of Sir George Macdonald, who dominated Romano-British studies between the world wars. From him she imbibed the patience in noting details and the dispassionate weighing of evidence ...
John Young FGS (July 1823 – 13 March 1900) was a Scottish geologist, palaeontologist and a curator at the Hunterian Museum.He was a vice-president of the Glasgow Geological Society and of the Natural History Society of Glasgow, and was awarded both life membership of the Geological Society of London and money from their Murchison Medal Fund.
He was born at 189 Duke Street in Glasgow [1] on 4 August 1852 the son of Alexander Dobbie a local chemist. He was educated at Glasgow High School and then Glasgow University graduating MA in 1875. He continued as a postgraduate at University of Edinburgh under William Ramsay , receiving a DSc in 1879.
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