St John’s Church – Monasteries – Chapel 1559 – John Knox – Church of Scotland – Presbyterianism 17th Century – Conventicles – Secret meetings held. The Covenanters adhered to the National Covenant. The Stuarts ruled by “Divine Right”. They believed that they were the Head of the Church. James VI […]
Scotch Burgher minister; born at Carpow, near Abernethy (on the Firth of Tay, 6 m. south east, of Perth), Perthshire, 1722; died at Haddington (12 miles east of Edinburgh) June 19, 1787. He was poor and self-taught, but acquired no small amount of learning; was a herd-boy, peddler, soldier, and […]
A biochemist born in Crieff in 1924. he studied at Heriot-Watt College in Edinburgh and then undertook a PhD in biochemistry at Edinburgh University Medical School. George Boyd then rose from Lecturer to Reader and then full Professor in 1970. His main research interests involved the study of Cholesterol Metabolism […]
This distiller was born in Perth in 1870. The eldest son of a wine and spirit merchant he joined the family business at the age of 19. A partner by 1895 he is credited with turning the small conservative business into a large multinational selling blended whiskey to a large […]
This tutor of the great English poet John Milton (until 1622) at St Andrews University (until 1622) was born in Perthshire in 1587. A Puritan divine, Thomas Young studied at St Andrews, taught there and then held religious positions in Hamburg and in Essex. Of note is an anti-episcopal text, […]
James Young is known as an inventor, agricultural engineer and philanthropist. He managed the cotton mills at Deanston in Perthshire from 1807. He is credited with the invention of the ‘thorough drainage’ system that employed subsoil ploughs. James Young was born in 1789 and died in 1850.
Robert Stirling, a Methven man invented two centuries ahead of its time, a simple and elegant engine that gave to the world the most efficient solar energy capture device, created the means to “effectively” sink the pride of the US Navy, the $6.2 billion dollar, nuclear-powered, Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, the […]
A clergyman born at Gask in Perthshire in 1536 Thomas Semton studied Philosophy at St Andrew’s University. He had attended school with James Lawson and Alexander Arbuthnot. Appointed to the post of Regent at Salvator’s College, Thomas Meton left for Europe during the Reformation. In 1578 after his return to […]
Known for being a palaeontologist, Ramsay Traquair was born at the Manse of Rhynd in Perthshire in 1840. After education at the University of Edinburgh he graduated a MD in 1862. Appointed as a Demonstrator at that university, he undertook that role for 3 years. He then performed similar posts […]
Born in Crieff in 1773, Thomas Thomson is known for his work in the field of chemistry. He studied initially at Edinburgh University and graduated a doctor in 1799. After a period working as a freelance editor, writer, teacher and historian, Thomas Thomson began an appointment as Professor at Glasgow […]
