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Ronald Drever (908 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ronald William Prest Drever (26 October 1931 – 7 March 2017) was a Scottish experimental physicist. He was a professor emeritus at the California Institute

Ian Macdonald (Scottish politician) (374 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

is a former Scottish nationalist activist. Macdonald studied at the Glasgow Academy and University of Glasgow before undertaking National Service He

Jack Buchanan (1,864 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

his wife, Patricia, née McWatt (1860–1936). He was educated at the Glasgow Academy. After a brief attempt to follow his late father's profession and

William Ramsay (1,498 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir William Ramsay KCB FRS FRSE (/ˈræmzi/; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel

John Gardner (legal philosopher) (1,186 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

John Gardner FBA (23 March 1965 – 11 July 2019) was a Scottish legal philosopher. He was senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and prior

Colin Sinclair (minister) (413 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Colin Sinclair is a minister of the Church of Scotland. He was Moderator of the General Assembly for the year from May 2019. He has served as the minister

Hugh Douglas (minister) (209 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Scotland portal Hugh Osborne Douglas KCVO CBE TD was an eminent Church of Scotland minister in the 20th century. He was born into an ecclesiastical family

Darius Campbell Danesh (2,699 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1983) and Cyrus (born 1995). He attended Bearsden Primary School and the Glasgow Academy, before going on to study English Literature and Philosophy at the

James Wordie (848 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir James Mann Wordie CBE FRS FRSGS LLD (26 April 1889 – 16 January 1962) was a Scottish polar explorer and geologist. Friends knew him as Jock Wordie

Marshall Lang (son) (238 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Scotland portal Marshall Buchanan Lang TD (1868 – 3 October 1954) was a Church of Scotland minister and author. He was born into an ecclesiastical family

Louis Greig (1,003 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Group Captain Sir Louis Leisler Greig, KBE CVO (17 November 1880 – 1 March 1953) was a Scottish naval surgeon, rugby player, courtier and a friend of King

Alexander Wood Renton (513 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cousin of Sir James Wemyss Mackenzie, 5th Baronet. He was educated at the Glasgow Academy and the University of Edinburgh, where he took first class honours

George MacDonald Fraser (2,593 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

George MacDonald Fraser OBE FRSL (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author and screenwriter. He is best known for a series of works that featured

Douglas Lockhart (129 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Douglas Ross Lockhart (born 19 January 1976) is a Scottish cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. He has played well over 100 times

Ian Peebles (937 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ian Alexander Ross Peebles (20 January 1908 – 28 February 1980) was a cricketer who played for Oxford University, Middlesex, Scotland and England. After

W. H. Murray (1,435 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William Hutchison Murray, OBE (18 March 1913 – 19 March 1996) was a Scottish mountaineer and writer, one of a group of active mountain climbers, mainly

Iain Cuthbertson (1,139 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Iain Cuthbertson (4 January 1930 – 4 September 2009) was a Scottish character actor and theatre director. He was known for his tall imposing build and

James Macnabb Campbell (728 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir James Macnabb Campbell, KCIE (1846–1903) was a Scottish administrator in India and ethnologist. During the 1890s he was a leading figure in the intellectual

Holly Cram (202 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Holly Cram (born 30 April 1984) is a Scottish field hockey forward. She won 140 caps playing for the Women's National Team. Cram was born in Glasgow and

Colin Kidd (391 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Colin Craig Kidd OBE FRSE FSA Scot FRHistS FBA (born 5 May 1964) is a historian who specializes in American and Scottish history. He is currently Professor

W. P. Ker (511 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William Paton Ker, FBA (30 August 1855 – 17 July 1923), was a Scottish literary scholar and essayist. Born in Glasgow in 1855, Ker studied at Glasgow Academy

Laura Bartlett (176 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Laura Bartlett (born 22 June 1988) is a retired Scottish field hockey player, representing Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She competed for the national

Alan Mackin (tennis) (455 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Alan Mackin (born 11 August 1981) is a former professional tennis player from Scotland who competed for Great Britain in Davis Cup. Mackin was a quarterfinalist

Sandie Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker (877 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Anna and Thomas Martin Lindsay. Lindsay was educated from 1887 at the Glasgow Academy, then at the University of Glasgow, where he gained a Master of Arts

James Prime (617 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

James Prime (born 3 November 1960) is a Scottish musician best known as the keyboard player for rock band Deacon Blue. Prime also lectures at the University

William Sharp (writer) (1,691 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

William Sharp (12 September 1855 – 12 December 1905) was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as

John Arthur (missionary) (2,332 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

John William Arthur OBE (1881, Glasgow – 1952, Edinburgh) was a medical missionary and Church of Scotland minister who served in British East Africa (Kenya)

David Omand (848 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir David Bruce Omand GCB (born 15 April 1947) is a British former senior civil servant who served as the Director of the Government Communications Headquarters

Archibald Corbett, 1st Baron Rowallan (582 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

philanthropist, and Sarah (née Cameron), he was educated at home and at the Glasgow Academy. With his older brother Thomas, he took up the offer of a world tour

Kelvinbridge (461 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

neighbourhoods of Woodside, Woodlands, Kelvinside and Hillhead. The Glasgow Academy private school is nearby on the Hillhead side of the valley, with

David Goldie (priest) (118 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Christianity portal David Goldie (20 December 1946 – 7 April 2002) was a priest in the Church of England. Goldie was educated at Glasgow Academy and Fitzwilliam

Charles Warr (628 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Laing Warr KCVO FRSE (1892–1969) was a Church of Scotland minister and author in the 20th century. Warr was born on 20 May 1892, the second son

John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard (1,061 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Olav Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG (born 22 February 1942) is a British former diplomat and civil servant, and is a crossbench member of the

Donald Petrie (botanist) (220 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Aberdeen. He taught at the Glasgow Free Church Training College, the Glasgow Academy and Scotch College in Melbourne, Australia, before being appointed

Sir James Lithgow, 1st Baronet (2,000 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with his brother Henry Lithgow, at first privately at home then at the Glasgow Academy before the two were apprenticed in the shipbuilding industry. William's

Hugh Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of Allander (277 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hugh Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of Allander (15 January 1903 – 6 November 1966), was the grandson of Hugh Fraser I, and the father of Sir Hugh Fraser, 2nd

Walter Coutts (151 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Walter Fleming Coutts GCMG MBE (30 November 1912 – 4 November 1988) was a British colonial administrator and was Uganda's final Governor before independence

Thomas Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde (744 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde, PC (20 March 1891 – 12 July 1985), was a Scottish Unionist Party politician. After serving in the Royal

Alexander Pollock (politician) (256 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Alexander Pollock (born 21 July 1944) is a former Scottish Conservative Party politician and now a sheriff. He was educated at Rutherglen Academy, Glasgow

Sir John Cargill, 1st Baronet (450 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir John Traill Cargill, 1st Baronet, DL, JP (10 January 1867 – 24 January 1954) was a Scottish oil magnate. Cargill was born in Glasgow, the second son

James Scott (obstetrician) (477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

McAlpine Scott, was a physician and surgeon. After an education at the Glasgow Academy and the University of Glasgow Medical School, qualifying in 1946

George Baker (judge) (382 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Sir George Gillespie Baker, OBE, PC (25 April 1910–13 June 1984) was President of the Family Division (formerly of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division)

Charles Strong (1,359 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Strong (26 September 1844 – 12 February 1942) was a Scottish-born Australian preacher and first minister of the Australian Church. Strong was the

Albert Russell, Lord Russell (139 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Albert Russell, Lord Russell (1884 – 12 May 1975) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician, lawyer, and judge. Russell was educated at Glasgow Academy

Sir James Caird, 1st Baronet, of Glenfarquhar (659 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir James Caird, Baronet of Glenfarquhar (2 January 1864 – 27 September 1954) was a shipowner and the principal donor in creating the National Maritime

William Curphey (701 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

9 August 1917. Retrieved 10 November 2014. Temple, Edwin (1918). The Glasgow Academy Roll of Honour, 1914-1918. Glasgow: John Smith & Son Limited. p. 3

David Strang (police officer) (539 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

David James Reid Strang CBE QPM is a former senior police officer and public servant from Scotland. He has worked in a number of senior roles in the criminal

John Currie Gunn (1,279 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir John Currie Gunn CBE FRSE (13 September 1916 – 26 July 2002) was an influential Scottish mathematician and physicist. Gunn was born at 19 Kelvinside

John Kennedy Tod (641 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Kennedy Tod (11 September 1852 – 2 June 1925) was a Scottish-American merchant banker. In his youth he was a Scottish rugby union international who

Niall Dickson (408 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Niall Forbes Ross Dickson CBE (born 5 November 1953) was appointed chair of East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust in April 2021. He was chief

Martin Smellie (261 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Robert Martin Stuart Smellie FRSE FIB (1927–1988) was a 20th-century Scottish biochemist and first Cathcart Professor of Biochemistry at the University

John Henderson Sinclair (434 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Henderson Sinclair (5 November 1935 – 8 November 2009) was emeritus professor of conveyancing at the University of Strathclyde and the first director

George Matheson (1,188 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

George Matheson FRSE (27 March 1842 – 28 August 1906) was a Scottish minister and hymn writer and prolific author. He was blind from the age of 17. Born

Woodville Gray (180 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Woodville Gray (10 June 1866 – 28 February 1938) was a Scottish footballer who played as a forward. A member of a large and successful Quaker family who

Hamish Dawson (688 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

James 'Hamish' Cooper Dawson (29 October 1925 – 19 October 2007) was a rugby union international who represented Scotland from 1947 to 1953 gaining 20

Alec Spalding (643 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alec J. Spalding MBE (9 August 1923 – 2 October 2007) was a prominent figure in the UK Scout Association, serving in the 24th Glasgow (Bearsden) Scout

Alexander Robertson MacEwen (814 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alexander R. MacEwen (1851–1916) was Scottish writer, minister, professor and Moderator of the United Free Church of Scotland. He was born on 14 May 1856

James Douglas Miller (325 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

James Douglas Miller FRSE (20 July 1937 – 23 August 1995) was a Scottish neurosurgeon of international repute. The Douglas Miller Memorial Lecture is named

James Bonar (civil servant) (774 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

James Bonar (27 September 1852 – 18 January 1941) was a Scottish civil servant, political economist and historian of economic thought. He was born in Perth

Robert Stevenson Thomson (369 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Prof Robert Stevenson Thomson FRSE FFPSG (1858–1905) was a 19th-century British physician. He was born in Southampton to Scots parents. His father was

Glenlyon Campbell (503 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Glenlyon Archibald Campbell (October 3, 1863 – October 20, 1917) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

Albert Alexander Gray (322 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Albert Alexander Gray FRSE (8 October 1868 – 4 January 1936) was a British physician and otologist. He was born at Firbank, a large villa in Pollokshields

Charles Grant Gordon (205 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Grant Gordon (21 August 1927 – 21 December 2013), was a Scottish whisky distiller, chairman and president of his family firm, William Grant & Sons

Richard Irvin (merchant) (930 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Richard Irvin (July 2, 1799 – June 27, 1888) was a Scottish-American merchant and banker who served as the president of the Saint Andrew's Society of the

Hector Morison (335 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hector Morison (1850 – 4 June 1939) was a British stockbroker and Liberal Party politician. He was the son of John Morison of Glasgow, and was educated

John M. M. Munro (298 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Mackintosh Mackay Munro FRSE MIME MICE (1853-1925) was a Scottish businessman and electrical engineer. He was born in Glasgow in 1853 the son of David

President of the Scottish Rugby Union (596 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from eight Scottish rugby union sides came together in Glasgow at the Glasgow Academy in Elmbank Street. They decided to form an organisation to develop

Eric McKellar Watt (661 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alexander 'Eric' McKellar Watt, OBE (16 March 1920 – 12 July 2001) was a Scottish entrepreneur, the founder and chairman of McKellar Watt Limited, at one

Robert McNair Wilson (1,411 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Captain Robert McNair Wilson MB, ChB (22 May 1882 in Maryhill, Glasgow – 29 November 1963 in New Forest, Hampshire), was a British surgeon, writer and

Newlands, Glasgow (280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

has many traditional shops which include The Newlands Cafe. One of the Glasgow Academy preparatory schools is located Newlands, located in a blonde sandstone

J. S. Thomson (579 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

end, in the Woodlands area. John Shaw Thomson became a pupil at the Glasgow Academy and is recorded as having played for Glasgow Academicals in 1871

Charles Maclay (anatomist) (367 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Charles Workman Maclay FRCS, FRCSED, FRFPSGLAS (4 November 1913 – 12 April 1978) was a Scottish anatomist and consultant surgeon. Maclay was born in Glasgow

Scottish Rugby Academy (812 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

national rugby union team on 2019, Shade Munro is now the Lead Coach of the Glasgow Academy. Work went underway to create a new purpose-built facility, on-site

Louis Auguste Barbé (527 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Glasgow in 1884 and was head of the Modern Languages department at the Glasgow Academy from 1884 to 1918. He was employed as a reviewer with the Glasgow

2019–20 Scottish Rugby Academy season (1,248 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ollie Smith transfers in from the Glasgow Academy; Murphy Walker transfers from the Caledonia Academy to the Glasgow Academy. Note: Flags indicate national

Duncan MacDonald (politician) (325 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

MacDonald Snr and his wife Christina (née McLean). He was educated at the Glasgow Academy University of Edinburgh and after arriving in Queensland in 1908

Douglas Schulze (701 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Douglas Schulze (5 March 1881 – 17 May 1956) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played as a Full Back. He initially played for Glasgow

Magnus Magnusson (1,350 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

traffic accident in 1973, when he was struck by a vehicle close to the Glasgow Academy playing fields at Anniesland in the city's West End. Their daughter

Mairi McDonald (658 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

her. The amount of work that Tyrone Holmes has done with her in the Glasgow Academy. Mairi has really come on and its through him that things have really

William Forsyth (rugby union) (732 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

rugby club Glasgow (Scotland). Academy, The Glasgow academy: the first hundred years, (Pub. for the Glasgow academy by Blackie), 1946 E. H. D. Sewell, Rugby

New Order (band) (7,114 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and "Ceremony". The New Order: Live in Glasgow DVD was recorded at the Glasgow Academy in 2006 and features 18 tracks, including 4 Joy Division songs. Next

New Order (band) (7,114 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and "Ceremony". The New Order: Live in Glasgow DVD was recorded at the Glasgow Academy in 2006 and features 18 tracks, including 4 Joy Division songs. Next

Millie Innes (498 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Rosshall Academy for her secondary education and was trained at the Glasgow Academy of Musical Theatre Arts. She is currently studying at the University

Robbie Fergusson (667 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

stated: "I’m buzzing to have signed for the club. I came through the Glasgow academy, and it’s always been a lifelong rugby dream to sign for Glasgow

World Maths Day (1,138 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pakistan Willem E, Remarkables Primary School, New Zealand Sharan M, The Glasgow Academy, UK Lim C, Cempaka Schools, Malaysia 7 Michael Z, Holy Family Primary

J. H. Muirhead (521 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Glasgow, Scotland, Muirhead was educated at Gilbertfield House School, the Glasgow Academy (1866–70), and proceeded to Glasgow University, where he was deeply

David Keir (historian) (395 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Newcastle, Birkenhead, and finally Glasgow, where Keir attended the Glasgow Academy, an independent school. In 1913, he began a degree at Glasgow University

Rugby union in Scotland (3,255 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

later named SRU - was founded in 1873 (in the Staff Common Room at The Glasgow Academy) and was a founding member of the International Rugby Board in 1886

Ian Garrow (559 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

soldiers and airmen escape Nazi-occupied France. Garrow attended the Glasgow Academy, where he rose to the rank of cadet sergeant in the academy's officer

Roderick McKenzie (713 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

He was born in Ross-shire, Scotland in 1852. He was educated at the Glasgow Academy and became a builder by trade. He then began two years of employment

John Henry Kerr (441 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Kerr was educated first by Messrs Wren and Gurney, later going to the Glasgow Academy (1885-1887). He attended the University of Glasgow from 1886 to 1888

West of Scotland F.C. (2,413 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

This led to the origination of Glasgow Hawks, an amalgamation of the Glasgow Academy, High School of Glasgow, and Kelvinside FP clubs (the latter two

Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (4,295 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

School — Gareth Warren George Watson's College — Melvyn W. Roffe The Glasgow Academy — Matthew K. Pearce Glenalmond College – Mark Mortimer Gordonstoun

World Education Games (1,087 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Salcombe Prep School, UK Oliver Papillo Balwyn Primary School, Australia Sharan Maiya The Glasgow Academy, UK Malayandi P Cempaka Schools DH, Malaysia

The Master Singers (873 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cheadle Hulme – the group split up. John Horrex joined the staff at The Glasgow Academy as Head of the Physics Department in January 1965, where he was also

William Scott Chalmers (604 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Scotland, the son of Dr. Quintin Chalmers MD JP of London. He attended the Glasgow Academy from 1895 to 1902, entering the Navy on 15 September 1903 as a cadet

Vedam Hariharan (362 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bangalore during his stint with Glasgow Accies. He worked as a coach at the Glasgow Academy in Scotland and was accredited as a Level 3 coach from the England

William Brown Macdougall (656 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

them was unveiled in 2012. Macdougall received his art education at the Glasgow Academy and at the Académie Julian in Paris, also working in the studios

Brian Keighley (727 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spent on Inchmurrin, an island in Loch Lomond. He was educated at the Glasgow Academy, then studied at the University of Glasgow graduating with a medical

Frank Coutts (rugby union) (682 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

select XV against H. Waddell's under-25 select XV. This was in aid of the Glasgow Academy building fund and it drew the largest crowd of the season at New

School debating in Scotland (1,364 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Farrington and Cosmo Grant from The Glasgow Academy won the trophy. In 2010, the trophy was retained by The Glasgow Academy by Séamus Macdonald McGuigan

George Stokes (rugby union) (536 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

player. Stage 3 players are assigned to a professional side - with the Glasgow academy players being assigned to Glasgow Warriors. Stokes said of the move

2017–18 Scottish Rugby Academy season (1,321 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Edinburgh academy in the second intake. Grant Hughes was transferred to the Glasgow academy in the second intake. Cameron Henderson (Strathallan School) is added

Thomas Cullen Young (2,316 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

school in Edinburgh, then moved to Glasgow, starting attendance at the Glasgow Academy in 1891. All the boys in his family received the same school education

Versus Cancer (2,226 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at the Glasgow SECC, but unfortunately the concert was moved to the Glasgow Academy because Echo & the Bunnymen and Alphabeat were both scheduled to

C. A. Campbell (2,271 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

born in Glasgow on 3 January 1897. He attended secondary school at the Glasgow Academy and continued to the University of Glasgow where he earned a Bachelor's

Frances Mayli McCann (865 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

After discovering acting and singing, she auditioned for and joined the Glasgow Academy Musical Theatre Arts (now GPRO), graduating in 2009. McCann reportedly