LIVES
& fragments




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Site under construction
Thomas Adams 1871-1940
Edinburgh to the Garden
Cities of tomorrow
George Thomas Beilby 1850-1924
Scots industrial chemist,
adviser, benefactor
Thomas Bouch
1822-1880
Cumbrian engineer
who overreached himself
Richard Henry Brunton 1841-1901
Father of Japan’s
lighthouses & builder of Yokohama
Mona Caird
1852-1932
Novelist, essayist, critic, social reformer
William Cavaye 1802-1896
Jamaica to India & Edinburgh: a general’s
life
Christian Clapperton
1815-1902
Scones in Selkirk gas works .
James Finlayson 1772-1852
Penicuik-born founder of
Colin McVean
Gubbins 1896-1976
Wartime head of Special Operations –a childhood album
Mary Jeune
1849-1931
London society hostess, journalist, alderman & charity worker
Max Lock 1909-1988
20th century town planner
of imagination & hope
John Claudius Loudon 1783-1843
Innovative improver of agriculture, gardens,
urban design
Winston Monk 1912-1954
New Zealand Rhodes scholar,
gymnast, thinker, teacher
Hugh Miller 1802-1856
Brilliant stonemason
haunted by demons
Marjory Simpson 1808-1891
Enthusiastic musician & passionate
bather
Mona Torrance 1889-1987
Spanning two worlds: a
Portobello life
John Young 1849-1938
Paris refiner, Edinburgh
florist & Western Australian
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