The poet, writer, editor, literary critic and leader of the American Romantic movement, Edgar Allan Poe is believed to have lived in Perth for a short time. His adopted parents owned a property at 7 Barossa Place and it is believed that Poe may have spent some time in that […]
Muharajah Duleep Singh: There is a memorial stone in the kirkyard of Kenmore at the foot of Loch Tay in memory of an infant son of the Muharajah Duleep Singh, late ruler of the Sikh nation, Punjab, India, and of the Maharance his wife. He was born on 4 August […]
In 1803 Dorothy and William Wordsworth made a comprehensive tour of Scotland accompanied some of the time by the poet Coleridge. Dorothy gives a very full account of all the journey undertaken by William and herself, and the people they met. There is a certain tendency to consider the Trossachs […]
“Sir David Young Cameron (born June 28, 1865 in Glasgow, Scotland, died in Perth, Scotland on September 16, 1945 – he died whilst in Perth to give a sermon at St. John’s Kirk) is a Scottish painter and etcher. He was trained at the Glasgow and Edinburgh Schools of Art in […]
John barclay ~ an anatomist born in Perthshire (1758) who helped to found the Dick Veterinary College of Edinburgh. The Barcleian Museum of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons was founded from his anatomical collection. He died in 1826.
“Robert Sandeman (born Perth 29 April 1718, died Danbury, Connecticut 2 April 1771) was a nonconformist theologian. He was closely associated with the Glasite church which he helped to promote. He was born the second of twelve children to a linen weaver, David Sandeman and his wife Margaret Ramsay. He […]
Born in Edinburgh on 8th November 1774 he was the principal Government architect in Scotland in the first half of the 19th Century. His career began with a design for the law Courts in Edinburgh in 1803. He adhered to the style of the Adam brothers in his exteriors. Their […]
Born in 1780 in London he was the second son of the artist Robert Smirke. In 1796 he entered the office of Sir John Soane. He gained Silver and Gold Medals at the Royal Academy. He travelled and continued his studies in Greece and Italy. Sir Robert Smirke designed Sir […]
In the 15th Century, the knowledge of medicine and diseases was at the best rudimentary. Holy wells abounded and were credited with the power of curing everything from barrenness to whooping cough, madness to lumbago. There were ceremonies involved too and if the cure was unsuccessful it could be blamed […]
Christie Cleek (or -Cleek or of-the-Cleek), is a legendary Scottish cannibal, somewhat in the vein of the better-known Sawney Bean. According to folklore, his real name was Andrew Christie, a Perth butcher. During a severe famine in the mid-fourteenth century (Hector Boece records floods, morrain and plagues of ‘myce and […]