Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch: A soldier (Lieutenant General) who was born (1748) the son of the Laird of Balgowan (Thomas Graham). He raised a regiment of infantry (90th Light Infantry Regiment) which fought in the Napoleonic Wars – raised as the 90th of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) in 1794, they […]
One of the most renowned of Scottish musicians from any period in that country’s history. Born at Dunkeld in 1727, Niel Gow composed in excess of one hundred strathspeys and reels including Farewell to Whisky, as well as being known for the accomplishment with the fiddle. He died in 1807. […]
A native of Perth, Marjory Kennedy Fraser, singer and folk-song collector was born in 1857. Classically trained in Paris she applied her abilities to the Scottish folk tradition producing in the early part of the 1900s important work on many Hebridean songs. A songwriter in her own right, Marjory Kennedy […]
A philosophy who became Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University in 1759 and then Professor of Moral Philosophy in 1864. He was born at Logierait in 1723. Prior to his academic career, Adam Ferguson was chaplain to the Black Watch and took part in the ’45 events – he […]
A landscape painter whose portfolio contained many paintings of the Scottish Highlands and the Cornish coast. Born at Blairgowrie in 1840, made A.R.A. in 1907, David Farquharson died in 1907.
A painter known for his Jacobite inspired paintings such as Prince Charles’s Entry into Edinburgh After Prestonpans. Born in 1807 at Kinclaven, Perthshire Thomas Duncan was created A.R.S.A., R.S.A. and in 1843 A.R.A. He died in Edinburgh in 1845.
The first Professor of Missionary Studies at New College, Edinburgh University, Alexander Duff was born near Pitlochry in 1806. In 1829, he travelled as a missionary to India being there the first from Scotland to undertake such evangelical work. His missionary work was a combination of Christian teaching and modern […]
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 […]