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James Robertson
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Simpson, McMichael & Davidson
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William H Scott
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John Taylor
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Falkirk Town Council. Burgh Architect
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George Deas Page
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George Deas Page (1856-1929) was an architect working in Falkirk from c. 1900-1929.
He was born in Glasgow and was the son of Francis Page and Janet Mathieson and married Anne Anderson Graham. He died at The Bungalow, High Station Road, Falkirk aged 73. (Source GROS) |
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Robert Stewart
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A N Malcolm
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Alexander Nisbet Malcolm (1877-1955) was an architect working in Falkirk and later in Stirling. He was in partnership with T M Copland from c 1900 until 1921 when he was appointed architect for Stirlingshire Education Authority and then County Architect in 1932. He retired in 1943.
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Alexander Gauld
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Alexander Gauld (d 1929) was an architect, who designed various buildings in Falkirk area. Died in Bangour Village but usual residence was 32 Buccleuch St, Edinburgh. Aged 62.
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Wilson & Tait
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The partnership of Wilson & Tait was formed in 1903 between David A Tait and Henry Wilson with offices in Grangemouth. The partnership ended in 1937 on the retirement of David Tait.
Wilson & Tait appear to have briefly had an office in Edinburgh at 122 George Street from about 1913-15. Presumably this was to to enable them to undertake a particular job in the city but this has not yet been traced. They also had a branch office in Jedburgh in the mid-1930s, presumably to oversee projects there. In 1937 when Tait retired, Henry Wilson merged his practice with that of Strang & Wilson, James Strang also having retired in that year, the combined practice of Wilson & Wilson being now based in Strang's office at 39 Vicar Street, Falkirk. [Source: Dictionary of Scottish Architects, accessed 22 Nov 2012 http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/ ] |
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David W Glass
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Architect
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Captain Sir John Kincaid
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John Kincaid, later Captain Sir John Kincaid, was born on 24 July 1787 at the small farm of Dalbeath, Bothkennar. He was baptised in the Relief Church of Falkirk, although his baptism was recorded in the Bothkennar Parish Register. His parents were John Kincaid and Margaret Gaff who were married at Polmont on 20 November 1784. He had an older and a younger brother who had also been born in Dalbeath. The family moved to Carronflats, now Grangemouth, but then Polmont Parish sometime between 1789 and 1791 as the younger brother and sister in the family were born in Polmont. His father died on 11 Feb 1794 and was buried in the family grave at Falkirk Churchyard.
He served as ensign in the North York Militia from 1807-08. The Dundas family had strong connections with this regiment which may have been the reason for his joining. He joined the 2nd Battalion the 95th Regiment at Hythe Barracks in the spring of 1809. Part of the British Army’s Light Brigade, the 95th was a special regiment which had been formed in 1800. They wore a distinctive green jacket and shako and carried Baker rifles. These were very accurate rifles but required a great deal of training and expertise to use effectively. The 95th usually operated separately from the rest of the regiments and were used as sharp shooters, skirmishers and information gatherers. They were encouraged to use their own initiative. Bernard Cornwell’s well known Sharpe novels were based on their exploits. Kincaid recounts his adventures in his memoirs of the Napoleonic War “Adventures with the Rifle Brigade” published in 1830 and later “Random Shots of a Rifleman “ Both books were enormously successful and are still in print. They are distinguished by his humility and regard for suffering. They are also very entertaining. Kincaid’s career in the 95th began with the South Beveland landing of the Walcheran Expedition, (Netherlands) possibly the most disastrous Expedition involving the British in the Napoleonic wars. The whole affair was badly planned and although just 106 men were killed in combat, over 4000 died of Walcheran fever (malaria) and many more, like Kincaid, became ill. He returned home to Scotland to recuperate. In 1810 he was transferred to the 1st Battalion 95th Regiment at Hythe and was shipped to Portugal. His time in the Peninsular War was extremely eventful. He served as Lieutenant and was adjutant for much of his time in the Napoleonic war. He recounts in his memoirs “Neither will I mention any regiment but my own, if I can possibly avoid it, for there is none other that I like so much, and none else so much deserves it; for we were the light regiment of the Light Division, and fired the first and last shot in almost every battle, siege and skirmish in which the army was engaged during the war.” He was involved in battles and sieges including Sabugal, Fuentes D’Onor, Cuidad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Vittoria, Nivelle and Bayonne. He was also involved in numerous minor actions. He led a storming party at Cuidad Rodrigo and was awarded the Peninsular Medal with nine clasps. He then spent the year before Napoleon’s escape from Elba, and the war’s resumption, in Scotland. He then rejoined his battalion in Brussels. His battalion (1st) was part of the 8th Brigade commanded by General Sir James Kempt, which was part of the 5th Division of the British Army under General Sir Thomas Picton. He then saw action at Quatre Bras and then shortly afterwards at Waterloo. His company were left of centre of the line at La Haye Sainte which was the part of the line that suffered the most sustained attack. There he was in the very thick of the action and had his horse killed under him. His famous quote was “I had never yet heard of a battle in which everybody was killed, but this seemed likely to be an exception, as all were going by turns.” He loyally maintained that Wellington had the battle won before Blucher’s arrival with the Prussian forces. In honour of the regiment’s bravery at Waterloo the 95th were renamed the Rifle Brigade in 1816. He remained in the Rifle Brigade until he retired from military service in 1831. Although the Rifle Brigade saw no more active service until 1846 his regiment was in Glasgow from 1819 to 1820 to maintain public order during the Scottish Insurrection. The regiment were then based in Ireland for 4 1/2 years from 1820 to 1825 again to quell popular unrest. He was on leave of absence, from his regiment there when he wrote a letter on 22nd Feb 1824 to the the young William Forbes of Callendar apologising after he was caught shooting snipe on the Callendar lands. He was visiting his brother Thomas Kincaid and his wife Isabella Balloch at Forganhall at the time. They were renting the ground floor from Jean Glen, widow of William Glen. Jean Glen was occupant of the upper floor of the house. In 1825 he served in Nova Scotia where he was particularly involved in literary pursuits and contributed to "The Nova Scotian" In 1826 he reached the rank of Captain. He retired from the army in 1831 after 22 years service. The remainder of his time was spent in public service. He became an Exon of the Yeoman of the Guard in 1844. After he became a senior Exon he was, as was customary at the time, knighted on 30 June 1852 . In 1847 he was appointed Government Inspector of Prisons for Scotland and in 1850 he took the joint role of Inspector of Prisons and Factories for Scotland and Northern England. Some of his findings in official reports regarding education and factory conditions were quoted in Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital”. He had over the years returned to Polmont and the Falkirk area, although his military service and public duties kept him away for much of the time. He obviously still retained a connection with the area as James Love recounts that Sir John Kincaid, London, was one of the main subscribers to the purchase of Falkirk’s Wellington Monument in 1853 He died at Hastings in 1862 shortly after retiring from public office due to ill health. Recent research has shown that he married not long before his death to Louisa. He is buried at Hastings Cemetery (where his grave gives the wrong year of birth). West Sussex Archives hold 30 of his letters to the Duke of Richmond. There are also some of his letters and statements held as part of Captain William Siborne’s Waterloo Correspondence at the British Library (Add Ms 34707-8). Siborne, at the behest of Sir Rowland Hill, Commander in Chief of the British Army, constructed a huge model of the battle completed in 1838. This was based on meticulous research and the above series of correspondence with all surviving allied officers who had served at Waterloo. He later wrote a famous history of the war in France and Belgium. However, his quest for accuracy led to the great displeasure of the Duke of Wellington as he suggested that the battle could not have been won without the assistance of the Prussians. |
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William Graham
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