Tammas Broon: ‘Lad O’ Pairts’
Thomas 'Tammas Broon' Brown of Kelty, Fife was a promising scholar and keen boxer. When he matriculated at United College in 1920-21, he entered an environment vastly different to the coal-mining community he had grown…
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James Christie Ross (1895–1976) BSc 1921
James Christie Ross [1914-UCD-027] may have been born in Nigg, in 1895, though he was later living in Arbroath. He matriculated at University College Dundee in 1914 at the age of 19, to study under the Provincial…
Madge Turnbull (1895?–after 1960), MA 1917
Madge Turnbull was educated at the High School of Dundee. She matriculated at University College Dundee in 1913, studying under the committee for the training of teachers; but later transferred to St Andrews and…
Malcolm McGibbon (1894–1970), BSc 1922
Malcom McGibbon [1913-UC1-041] was born in 1894, in Inchture. He may have been educated at Harris Academy, Dundee. He arrived at St Andrews in 1913, at the age of 19, intending to study under the St Andrews Provincial…
Margaret Black (later, Chalmers) (1895?–1965), MA 1917
Margaret Mary Black [1913-UCD-004], of Dundee, entered University College Dundee in 1913. She was in training under the Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers. In her second year, she received the…
Margaret Owler (1895–1976), MA 1918
Margaret Martin Wilson Owler [1914-UCD-025] was born 13 September, 1895 in Dysart, near Kirkcaldy, Fife, and educated at the local high school until 1912. She attended University College Dundee from 1914 to 1918,…
Annie McGowan (1895–?)
Annie May McGowan [1913-UC1–042] appears to have been born on February 28th, 1895, in Girvan, Ayrshire. She appears to have been educated at Madras College in St Andrews, where she took examinations in 1911 and 1913.…
Agnes Hogg (1896–?), MA 1918
Agnes Marion Hogg [1914-UC1-033] was born in Montrose, Forfarshire, in 1896, and entered the United College in 1914. She studied under the Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers. Although she had not placed…
Agnes Ferguson (later, Ingle) (1895?–after 1965)
Agnes Sinclair Ferguson [1913-UC1-024] came from Auchtermuchty, in Fife. She arrived at the University of St Andrews in 1913 at the age of 18, to study under the St Andrews provincial committee for the training of…
Beatrice Fernie (later, Evans) (1895–?)
Beatrice Emma Fernie [1913-UC1-025] entered United College at 18 years old in 1913, with a home address in Ipswich. In 1913 and 14, she studied Math, Logic, and Latin as part of her training under the St Andrews…