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). […]
Henry Adamson (1581-1639) was a Scottish poet and historian. He was the son of James Adamson, Dean of Guild in Perth. He was trained for the church,but became a schoolmaster in his home city. His friend William Drummond induced him to publish his most famous poem: Muses Threnodie: of Mirthful Mournings […]
Professor Donald B. McIntyre – geologist (mountaineer, piper, scholar and writer) – was born in Edinburgh in 1923. He was educated at Giffnock, George Watson College (Edinburgh) and later Grantown Grammar School in Inverness-shire. After attending Edinburgh University from where he graduated in geology, McIntyre continued his studies in Switzerland. Amongst […]
ROBERT STUART (1812-1848) historian and writer was born in Glasgow on 21 January 1812. His father (William Stuart) a merchant travelled frequently and so Robert was left in the care of his grandfather from an early age. With his grandparents, Robert Stuart lived close to Perth. Later (1819) he joined his […]
John Cunningham – historian and minister – born 1819 in Paisley was ordained in 1845 as the Church of Scotland parish minister of Crieff; he stayed in this parish for more than four decades. Here he married a local woman, Susan Porteous, who bore him seven children. Cunningham did not restrict […]