PenicuikGREATS
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Thomas Adams 1871-1940 
Carlops farmer to the Garden Cities of tomorrow
Jim Aitken 1947- 
Scotland’s legendary Grand Slam
rugby skipper
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 Finland’s second city
James Arnot Hamilton 1923-
Concorde designer
Cargill Gilson Knott
FRS 1856-1922 
mathematician, pioneer
seismologist in Japan
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- 
US expert in neonatal and pediatric
critical care
Andrew Hastie Wilson 
Canada’s eminent engineer
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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