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14 unusual facts about Dundee


Dundee Royal Infirmary

Further royal charters were granted in 1877 and 1898, the former on the occasion of the opening of a convalescent home connected with the hospital at Barnhill.

Dundee University Students' Association

The present publication issued by the Association is known as The Magdalen.

Dundee-Crown High School

Juan Acevedo- Major League Baseball pitcher, at one time owned franchise record for saves in a season for the Detroit Tigers

Dundee, Minnesota

The first station out of Heron Lake was proposed in the extreme northeastern corner of Nobles County, and was originally named Warren, in honor of Joseph Warren who fell at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Dundee, Wisconsin

In the fall of 2006, the ABC show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition traveled to Dundee to build a house for the Koepke family after Matt Koepke was diagnosed with melanoma.

George Abercromby, 4th Baron Abercromby

Abercromby married Lady Julia Janet Georgiana Duncan (b. 1840), the daughter of Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown and his wife Juliana Cavendish Philips, at the earl's residence Camperdown House on 6 October 1858.

Gifford–Davidson House

James Talcott Gifford, a native of Scotland, was a founder of Dundee, New York.

Global Engine Alliance

Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance LLC, or GEMA is the manufacturing arm of the Global Engine Alliance and consisted of five factories worldwide; two in Dundee, Michigan, United States, two in South Korea and one in Shiga, Japan.

Harcourt Mortimer Bengough

En route, he received orders to proceed to Helpmakaar near Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal.

HMS Dundee

A number of ships of the Royal Navy have been named Dundee, after the town in Scotland.

Impati Mountain

Impati Mountain is a mountain near the town of Dundee in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Jenny Wood-Allen

Hailing from Dundee, Scotland, Wood-Allen initially took up sport in 1983 as a "one-off".

Petit-Rocher, New Brunswick

In 2012, Petit-Rocher was host to the CDBHL's annual ball hockey tournament with a team from nearby Dundee taking home the Allen, Paquet & Arseneau cup as champions.

Phoebe Ann Patten

Born sometime around 1807, Babcock was living in Dundee, Michigan with her family when she met David W. Patten, a farmer who had recently moved to Michigan from New York and who was seven years her senior.


Abertay Historical Society

Since 1953 the Society has published books on local history, the first of which was Dundee and the American Civil War by David Carrie.

Alexander Gibb

Gibb was born in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, the son of the civil engineer, Alexander Easton Gibb, and the great-grandson of John Gibb, an early member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Ardler

Unemployment in Dundee was at a high level, and this worsened when the Timex factory, located next to Ardler and an employer of many Ardler residents, closed in 1993.

Battle of Killiecrankie

He refused, and with some retainers retired to his home, Dudhope Castle near Dundee.

Bobby McMahon

Born in Dundee, McMahon played football at the school and youth level, before going on to play for Tayport in Fife, then one of Scotland's top amateur teams.

Bonnie Dundee

Bonnie Dundee is the of title of a poem and a song written by Walter Scott in 1825 in honour of John Graham, 7th Laird of Claverhouse, who was created 1st Viscount Dundee in November 1688, then in 1689 led a Jacobite rising in which he died, becoming a Jacobite hero.

Burnbank

Jim Bett - was a football player with Airdrieonians FC, K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen (twice), Glasgow Rangers FC, Aberdeen FC, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, Heart of Midlothian FC and Dundee United FC.

Charles McKean

He was awarded an Honorary Stephen Fry Award by the University of Dundee in 2012 for his life time achievements in engaging the public with his research in Scottish architectural history.

Christian Dailly

He became the youngest-ever player to appear for Dundee United when he made his first-team debut on 21 August 1990, though this record has since been broken by Greg Cameron.

Dare to be Digital

12 teams took part in Dare 2007, including BAFTA Ones to Watch Award nominees Care Box for their game 'Climbactic' (Edinburgh University), Phoenix Seed for 'Bear Go Home' (Peking University and the University of Abertay Dundee) and Voodoo Boogy for 'Ragnarawk' who ultimately won the BAFTA Ones to Watch Award.

Dattatreya Laxman Patwardhan

At the recommendation of his boss, he attended another naval school in Glasgow and Dundee in Scotland, and then worked on steamers plying between Liverpool and New York.

David Hay

Albert Kidd secured the victory for Dundee with two goals and Celtic were crowned surprise champions.

Demography of Scotland

Around 70% of the country's population live in the Central Lowlands — region stretching in a northeast-southwest orientation between the major cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and including major settlements such as Paisley, Stirling, Falkirk, Perth and Dundee.

Dennis Edney

Originally from Dundee, Scotland, Dennis Edney is a Canadian defence attorney based in Edmonton, Alberta noted for his involvement in high-profile cases, including Brian Mills, R. v. Trang, as defence attorney for Abdullah and Omar Khadr, who were captured in the War on Terror, Fahim Ahmad, and represents the entire Khadr family.

Downfield

Downfield F.C., a Scottish junior football club based in the Downfield area of Dundee

DUFC

Dundee United F.C., an association football club in Dundee, Scotland

Dundee International Submarine Memorial

Sailed from Dundee to join the Soviet Northern Fleet, but sunk in error by the RAF off the coast of Norway in 1944.

Frank L. Pinckney

After leaving Dundee, Pinckney joined the Illinois militia as a sergeant in with the 314 motor supply train in the American Expeditionary Forces serving in France.

Gaya–Mughalsarai section

When it was built, it was the longest bridge in India and was believed to be the second longest bridge in the world, short of the Tay bridge near Dundee.

Gordon Chisholm

Poor league form and a 3–2 defeat against Aberdeen in the third round of the Scottish Cup, after having led 2–0, led to Chisholm being sacked on 10 January 2006 by Dundee United chairman Eddie Thompson.

Hasselwood Rock

The brigantine Helen of Dundee, bound for Quebec, foundered at Hasselwood Rock in 1824; "the crew left most of the passengers to drown, including seven women and six children".

HMS Ambrose

The Dundee International Submarine Memorial has been built there to commemorate the submariners lost during the war from Dundee.

Hope Town, Quebec

In 1768, the first pioneer arrived, a certain Duncan McRae, a soldier of the Seaforth Highlanders and native of Dundee in Scotland.

Iain Luke

Iain Luke was educated at Stobswell Boys' Junior Secondary School and the Harris Academy (then a grammar school) in Dundee.

John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee

In The Dagger with Wings, one of the Father Brown short stories of G.K. Chesterton, a character tells Father Brown that Dundee sold his soul to the Devil.

The tune under the title of "Bonnie Dundee" (or "Bonny Dundee") predated Claverhouse's appointment as Viscount Dundee, and several 18th century songs under that title refer to the city of Dundee and not Claverhouse.

John Scrymgeour, 1st Viscount of Dudhope

He succeeded his father as hereditary Constable of Dundee and Standard Bearer of Scotland in 1612.

John Thomas Rochead

In 1849 he won a competition for his design for the Royal Arch, Dundee, which was built the following year.

Lewis Toshney

Toshney was born in Dundee his parents are Kyra Toshney and Sean Toshney, his dad Sean is Kyle Falconer of The View's second cousin.

Mark Boggan

Mark got his first break as one of the children's chorus for Joseph and his Amazing Technicoloured Dreamcoat at the Caird Hall in Dundee for Bill Kenwright's touring production.

Media in Dundee

For a few years, Dundee was also home to its own Restricted Service Licence television channel Channel Six Dundee.

Motley County Historical Museum

The Motley County Historical Museum is a repository of the history of rural Motley County, located at 828 Dundee Street in the former Traweek Hospital building in Matador, Texas.

Night of the Meek

He then reaches into the garbage bag and gives Dundee the fur coat for his wife and a baseball with the signatures of the 1961 Yankees lineup for himself.

Percy F. Frankland

Percy Frankland was Demonstrator and Lecturer in Chemistry at the Royal School of Mines (1880–1888), Professor of Chemistry at University College, Dundee (now University of Dundee)(1888–1894) and Professor of Chemistry at Mason College, Birmingham (now Birmingham University) (1894–1919).

Scotmid

Morning Noon & Night was a Scottish convenience store chain set up in Dundee in 1991, by retailing executive Eddie Thompson (who became chairman of Dundee United F.C. in 2002.)

Scott Kopel

Kopel, son of former Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers and Dundee United player Frank, began his career with Dundee United but made just one appearance, playing as a right-back in the 2-2 draw at home to Icelandic side FH in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup first round.

Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Enterprise has approximately 1,100 staff and operates from 13 offices - Aberdeen, Bellshill, Clydebank, Dundee, Dumfries, Edinburgh, two in Glasgow, Glenrothes, Kilmarnock, Paisley, Selkirk and Stirling.

St Marys, Dundee

The esteemed poet and winner of the Witbread Prize for Poetry, Don Paterson was raised in St Mary's, as was former Dundee footballer and current Dundee United coach Steve Campbell.

Steven Fallon

Fallon left Ochilview Park in 2005 and returned to Tayside in 2006, signing for junior side Dundee North End and being reunited with former Dundee United colleague Iain Jenkins.

Sydney Jordan

He studied aeronautical engineering at Miles Aircraft's experimental college in Reading, Berkshire, but returned to Dundee and worked as an assistant to comics artist Bill McCail, and learned by studying the work of Alex Raymond, Milton Caniff and Stan Drake.

Ted Cowan

He not only wrote for Comics, but also Annuals, 'Libraries' and short stories for many publishers including: Odhams Books Ltd., Fleetway Publications Ltd., IPC Ltd. and extensively in later years D.C. Thomson & Company Ltd. of Dundee, Scotland.

Triads in the United Kingdom

Triads in the United Kingdom first appeared during the post-World War era with the 14K Triad emerging in Chinese communities in London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester in England and Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee in Scotland as early as 1952.

Wave 102

When the station first launched it was called Discovery 102, since Dundee is known as the City of Discovery after the RRS Discovery, which is docked there.

West End, Dundee

Since 1998, the city council has developed a "Cultural Quarter" at the boundary between the city centre and the West End which is now home to the Dundee Repertory Theatre, the Whitehall Theatre, the Sensation Science Centre and Dundee Contemporary Arts building as well as other commercial galleries and studios, and the university's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.

Whitechapel and St George's by-election, 1923

Holden's campaign received the active support of Edwin Scrymgeour who had been elected to parliament for Dundee at the 1922 General Election on behalf of the Scottish Prohibition Party.