William Strang
Painter and etcher. Born  Dumbarton, aged 17 came to the Slade School of Art and stayed in London. Illustrated the works of John Bunyan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Rudyard Kipling. A Google image ...
Painter and etcher. Born  Dumbarton, aged 17 came to the Slade School of Art and stayed in London. Illustrated the works of John Bunyan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Rudyard Kipling. A Google image ...
Co-founder and lead singer of The Clash. Born as John Graham Mellor in Turkey and raised in Scotland. "London Calling" is his. Died suddenly of a heart defect at his home in Somerset.
The Young Pretender. Bonnie Prince Charlie. Born Rome of a rich Polish mother. Grandson of King James II who, being Catholic, was driven out of Britain, thus setting the scene for the Jacobite upr...
Australian explorer. Â Born Scotland. Trained as a civil engineer and aged 23 emigrated to Australia where 1858 - 62 he made 6 expeditions into the interior searching out new pastures and surveying ...
Second Lieutenant James Gibson Swinton was born, (according to Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 records), on 14 December 1891 in Dundee, St. Andrews, Forfarshire, Scotland, but this date co...
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Derek Ogilvie Sword was born on 30 November 1971 in Dundee, Scotland As a teenager, he played tennis for ...
Bishop of London 1856 - 1868, Archbishop of Caterbury 1868 - 1882. Born Scotland.
Architect. Born in Paisley. His works include: Selfridges in Oxford Street, Daily Telegraph office in Fleet Street, Unilever House in Blackfriars and Sydney Harbour Bridge. His own house also got a...
David Earl Taylor. Born Glasgow. Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page: "On January 29, the Birmingham Post wrote...
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