Gatty Marine Laboratory(which is also the home of Scottish Oceans Institute) was named after the zoologist Charles Henry Gatty, who paid for the original timber building with its permanent stone replacement in 1892. Though the stone building was…
General Władysław Sikorski was the Polish prime minister in exile and commander-in-chief of its armed forces during WW2.
Sikorski led the reorganisation of Polish forces after the fall of France and oversaw the construction of costal defences…
Patron of photography, with his wife Lady Kinnaird
Name:
George William Fox Kinnaird, ninth Lord Kinnaird of Inchture, Baron Rossie, and first Baron Kinnaird of Rossie
D.O.B:
1807
D.O.D:
1878
George Martine the elder, (1635-1712) was an historian of St Andrews, following in the footsteps of his grandfather Dr George Martine, who was the principal of St Salvator’s College, St Andrews. Martine (the younger) is remembered through his work…
George Martine the younger became a physician and studied at the University of St Andrews. He there headed a student riot during the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, ringing the college bells the day that the ‘Old Pretender’ was proclaimed. He studied…
This house is where George Martine (the elder, as well as the younger) used to live in St Andrews.
George Martine the elder(1635-1712), was a historian of St Andrews. He was known for the diocesan history Reliquiæ divi Andreæ. In June 1688, he…
