LIVES
& fragments
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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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