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Rose Trehaeven
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Graham
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C. P. Crewe
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Jock Leyden
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Political, sporting and theatre cartoonist. Was educated at Grangemouth High School between 1922-1924. Was taught art there by James W Davie. Family emigrated to South Africa in 1926 where he became an apprentice lithographic artist in the printing trade. In 1927 he started having his cartoons published in the Natal Advertiser. He returned to Britain for the early part of the 1930s. In 1936 he joined the Durban Daily News where he was to remain for the rest of his career. He used his cartoons to attack the Nationalist Party in South Africa and also Hitler and Mussolini during the second world war.He also documented the fall of apartheid. Retired in 1995.
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Robert Moffat
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Robert Moffat(1795-1883) was born in Ormiston but moved to Carronshore in 1806 and was an apprentice gardener to John Robertson of Parkhall, Polmont, in 1809. He moved to Cheshire and joined the London Missionary Society and in 1816 became a missionary in South Africa. He was the father in law of missionary and explorer David Livingstone, who married his daughter Mary.
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Arthur Molloy Kennard
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Major Arthur Molloy Kennard was one of the Kennard dynasty who owned Falkirk Iron Co. He was the son of Arthur Kennard and grandson of Robert William Kennard. He served in the army 1886-1903 participating in military engagements in South Africa. After 1903 he acted as resident partner of the Falkirk Iron Co.
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Henry Wade
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Professor of Urology at University of Edinburgh. Son of Rev George Wade, minister at Falkirk West Church. Graduated from Edinburgh in 1898, civilian surgeon with the army in South Africa and during the First World War, demonstrator in anatomy thereafter and had medical career in University of Edinburgh. Designed a mobile surgical unit during the First World War.
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David Brechin
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Attended school in Dunoon and university in Bloemfontain, South Africa. Worked in newspaper all his life. was a close friend of Jock Leyden whom he worked beside on the Durban Daily News from c. 1937-c. 1949. His daughter Jean Mary Brechin thinks that he may have been responsible for the captions on some of donated cartoons
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Society of Incorporated Accountants
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The Society of Accountants and Auditors had been formed in 1885 by accountants who did not qualify for membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. The Society had many colonial and foreign members particularly in Australia and South Africa, and a South African Committee was formed in 1896. In 1899, the Society amalgamated with the Scottish Institute of Accountants which had been formed in 1880; an Irish branch of the Society was set up in 1900. In 1908, the Society was renamed the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors, and in 1954 it became the Society of Incorporated Accountants. In 1957 the Society amalgamated with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.
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Blair Lodge School
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Blairlodge School, Polmont (Stirlingshire) opened about 1836, with a small number of pupils, as a private boarding academy for boys, run by Mr Johnstone of Meadowbank. Later in the 19th century the school was run by Mr Hyslop, assisted by his son-in-law, Dr Maurice Paterson, of Moray House Training College, Edinburgh, whose occupancy lasted for many years. At its peak shortly afterwards numbers reached at least 150 pupils. New buildings were constructed by a subsequent owner, Mr Cooke Gray, who catered for about 400 scholars, but his health declined and so did the school. There were many scholars from South Africa, and on the outbreak of the Boer War a number of the pupils left. After Mr Cooke Gray died the trustees tried to carry on the school under Mr Matthews' management, but the venture did not prove successful. The school closed in 1904, and by 1911 the property had become a borstal.
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Cochrane & French
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Gordon Holmes Alexander MacMillan
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Gordon MacMillan(1897-1986) was an officer in the First World War and won a Military Cross and two bars. At the age of 19 he was appointed Adjutant in the 2nd Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. During the Second World War he served as a commander in North Africa, Sicily, the Normandy Landings and mainland Europe. In 1947 he was Commander of British Forces in Palestine. From 1948-52 he was General Officer-Commanding in Chief Scottish Command. From 1952 to 1956 he was Givernor of Gibraltar. After his retirement he remained Commander in chief of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders until 1958.
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John Heeps
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David Russell
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F Milson Dixon
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William Rose Primrose
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Cowan, Alexander & Sons
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Elspie
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The Dr Elspie Trust owned property in Weir St, Falkirk
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George Inglis
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Member of Falkirk Erskine Church and Sabbath School Superintendent.
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Peter McLean
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Architect
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