PenicuikGREATS
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Thomas Adams 1871-1940 
Carlops
farmer to the Garden Cities of tomorrow
Jim Aitken
1947- 
Helen Bannerman
1862-1946 
artist
writer of children’s stories
Thomas Bouch
1822-1880 
engineer of the Penicuik railway who came to
grief
Athole
Cameron 1923-1992 
teacher and writer
Agnes Campbell, Lady Roseburn 1637-1716
printer, publisher, papermill
owner
Sir John Clerk FRS 1637-1716 
talented designer, composer, landowner
Alexander Cowan 1775-1859 
papermaker and philanthropist
Samuel Rutherford Crockett
1860-1914 
free church
minister & popular novelist
James Cossar Ewart FRS 1851-1933 
zoologist and animal breeder
Marjorie Fidler 1734-1819
Penicuik’s eighteenth century businesswoman
James Finlayson 1772-1852 
founder of
James Arnot Hamilton 1923-
Concorde designer
Cargill Gilson Knott
FRS 1856-1922 
mathematician, pioneer
seismologist in
John Leadbetter
1788-1865 
linen
merchant & railway developer
Siobhan Miller 1987- 
rising folk singer of rare gifts
Geoff Palmer 1940- 
world grain scientist & Scotland-Jamaica
historian
Nabil Shaban 1953- 
well-known actor, writer, film-maker
Albert Watson 1942- 
one of the worlds leading photographers
Jonathan Whitfield 1946- 
Andrew Hastie
Wilson 
CTR Wilson FRS 1869-1959 
Nobel laureate, inventor of
the cloud chamber
John
& William
Young (1815-1906) 
Gas, water and shale oil engineers
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