Saba Douglas-Hamilton is a Kenyan wildlife conservationist, television presenter, and documentary film producer. She was born to an English zoologist father and an Italian-Kenyan conservationist mother. She first attended school in Kenya, then United…
Built in 1895 by famous Scottish architect Sir Robert Rowen Anderson, Swallowgate has since been the home to the School of Classics. Inside the building, you have the classics library, which houses St Andrew's best classics collection and is known…
Sergeant John Ripley (“Jock”) VC was born in August 1867 in Keith. After completing a roof slater apprenticeship, he moved to St Andrews. It was in St Andrews where John met Jane Laing. They married in 1895 and had a son, Alexander Laing Ripley, in…
The 'charming and outstanding' Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson believed that all science and learning were one and the same, testified by his wide-ranging expertise as a scientist, naturalist, classicist, mathematician, scholar and philosopher. A year…
