Born in Edinburgh in 1826, Henry Duncan Littlejohn was educated at Perth Academy. He taught for 42 years at the School of Medicine of the Royal College of Surgeons in the field of medical jurisprudence and public health. In 1897 he was made Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at the University […]
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 […]
James Connolly was born at 107 Cowgate in Edinburgh (an area known commonly as Little Ireland) on June 5 1868 and went on to become the General Secretary of the Irish Transport & General Workers Union (IT&GWU), one of the seven signatories to the 1916 Proclamation of Irish Independence, and […]