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unusual facts about Glasgow University



1873 in sports

Eight clubs are represented at the foundation: Glasgow Academicals; Edinburgh Academical Football Club; West of Scotland F.C.; University of St Andrews Rugby Football Club; Royal High School FP; Merchistonians; Edinburgh University and Glasgow University.

Declaration and Address

He studied at Glasgow university under George Jardine, who was a friend and student of Thomas Reid.

Edward McCombie McGirr

century physician William Cullen who almost 200 years before had, like himself, been educated at the Hamilton Academy school and Glasgow University.

Samuel MacCurdy Greer

He was the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Greer, presbyterian minister of Dunboe, and Elizabeth Caldwell, daughter of Captain Adam Caldwell, R.N. He was born at Springvale, County Londonderry, in 1810, educated at the Belfast Academy and Glasgow University, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1833.

Scottish Rugby Union

Eight clubs were represented at the foundation, Glasgow Academicals; Edinburgh Academical Football Club; West of Scotland F.C.; University of St Andrews Rugby Football Club; Royal High School FP; Merchistonians; Edinburgh University RFC; and Glasgow University.

Shona Robison

Born in Redcar, England, she went to Alva Academy, and then gained an MA in Social Sciences at Glasgow University in 1989, and gained a Postgraduate Cert in Community Education, obtained in 1990 at Jordanhill College.

The Glasgow Committee on Anæsthetics

However, they did not succeed, but a subcommittee consisting of Davind Newman (a Pathological Chemist to the Western Infirmary) Joseph Coates (Pathologist to the Western Infirmary) and Professor McKendrik (Physiologist at Glasgow University) became known as the Glasgow Committee and began work in 1877.

Thomas Miller, Lord Glenlee

Born in Edinburgh on 3 November 1717 the son of William Miller of Glenlee WS, Kirkcudbrightshire and of Barskimming, Ayrshire, and Janet Hamilton, he was educated at Glasgow University (1730) and Edinburgh University (1738).


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Castle and Barony of Robertland

Sir Edward Hunter-Blair, 8th Baronet "married" Jonet Clemency Wilson Reid of Robertland daughter of David Wilson Reid of Robertland, Baron of Robertland and Archivist of Glasgow University and his wife Diana Rosamond Angell secretary of the Baronetage of Scotland (1973–1997).

David Stark Murray

He was born at 244 Main Street, Barrhead, Scotland, and qualified in 1925 from Glasgow University.

Dugald Cowan

He was Headmaster of North Kelvinside Higher Grade School from 1896–1919 and he played a large part in educational activities in Scotland in particular through the Educational Institute of Scotland, but also through Glasgow University and the Corporation of the City of Glasgow as well as other bodies.

Elizabeth Janet MacGregor

Elizabeth studied medicine at Glasgow University during the Second World War and eventually served for and became captain of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Henry George Farmer

A collection of Farmer's papers is housed at the Special Collections Department of the Glasgow University Library at the University of Glasgow.

Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector

Historians Peter Barton and Jeremy Banning with archaeologists Tony Pollard and Iain Banks from the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at Glasgow University were successful in May 2010 in finding at Mametz the remains of one of the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projectors.

Samuel Bourn

He was born at Crook near Kendal, and educated at Stand grammar school and Glasgow University, where he studied under Francis Hutcheson and Robert Simson.

Bourn was the third Samuel Bourn, as second son of Samuel Bourn the Younger, and was educated at Stand grammar school and Glasgow University.