Botanist and explorer born at Scone in 1798. His journeys to North America resulted in the discovery of countless species of flora and fauna previously unknown to the science of botany. Many of these trees and plants were subsequently introduced to Britain, most notably the Douglas Fir (Oregon Pine – Pseudotsuga […]
A historian born in 1897 and educated at Millhill, Perthshire and St Andrews and London University. During the First World War he served in France and in Flanders. Later William Croft Dickson became Librarian of the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics (1933-44). […]
Wine and spirit merchant born in Perth in 1856 and educated at Perth Academy. With his brother Thomas he built up the family business into a huge company and present day multinational. He was elected Liberal MP for Invernessshire from 1900 to 1916 and then was elevated to the House […]
“Robert Carver (c1485-c1570) was perhaps the greatest of Scottish composers, and one of the most dynamic of early Renaissance British composers. Carver was apparently associated with the Royal Chapel of Scotland, as well as with the famous Scone Abbey. He is best known for his sacred choral music, of which […]
A Covenanter born in Rattray (near Blairgowrie) around 1619. He studied at Aberdeen and St Andrews. In 1655, David Cargill was ordained a minister for the Barony parish in Glasgow. Later he was ejected for denouncing the Restoration of the Monarchy. Becoming a field preacher, David Cargill went onto fight […]
Neil Cameron, KT, GCB, CBE, DSO, DFC: was another of the flight training recruits at Scone Aerodrome during the late 1930s. He was born at 32 Pitcullen Terrace in Perth on 8 July 1920 to Isabella Cameron (née Stewart) and Neil Cameron who had served as a company sergeant major […]
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 […]
