His first poetry collection of many, Skail Wind, was published in 1941.

Thomas Chalmers statue, Edinburgh

He was apprenticed to the lawyer George Chalmers WS when he was 17, but took more interest in chemical experiments than legal work and at the age of 18 became a physician's assistant as well as attending lectures in medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

* Chalmers, John Audubon in Edinburgh and his Scottish Associates, 2003.

Intending to enter the Church, he proceeded to Edinburgh University, where he studied theology under Dr Thomas Chalmers, with whom he remained friendly until the latter's death in 1847.

After completing the usual course at King's College, Aberdeen, the young Chalmers studied law at the University of Edinburgh for several years.

After studying at the Marischal College, where Alexander Bain and David Masson were among his contemporaries, he went in 1839 to Edinburgh to complete his theological course under Thomas Chalmers.

* Thomas Chalmers, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, Dec 1896, (" Famous Scots Series ")

Statue of Thomas Chalmers in Edinburgh

On 28 May 1847 Chalmers returned to his house at Morningside, near Edinburgh, from a journey to London on the subject of national education.

In 1834 Dr Chalmers was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and in the same year he became corresponding member of the Institute of France ; in 1835 Oxford conferred on him the degree of D. C. L.

A statue of Thomas Chalmers by John Steell was erected in Edinburgh in 1878.

from Princeton, New Jersey, in 1841, was chosen by the Assembly of the Free Church to succeed Chalmers in the chair of divinity in the New College, Edinburgh.

* a statue of Dr. Thomas Chalmers in George Street, Edinburgh, 1878.

Gap creationism was popularized by Thomas Chalmers, a professor at the University of Edinburgh, founder of the Free Church of Scotland, and author of one of the Bridgewater Treatises, who attributed it to 17th century Dutch Arminian theologian Simon Episcopius.

* " Chalmers on Political Economy ", 1832, Edinburgh Review.

He joined the Free Church at the time of the Disruption of 1843, and in 1867 was moved to Edinburgh to take over the Chalmers Memorial Church ( named after his teacher at college, Dr. Thomas Chalmers ).

He was educated under Charles Chalmers at Merchiston Castle School, then from 1845 studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh ( graduating MD ).

He was born at Edinburgh, was educated at the University of Edinburgh and at the Divinity Hall of his native city, where he was taught by Thomas Chalmers.

In June 1875, St. Andrew's, Knox, Bank Street ( later Chalmers ), and the newly formed congregations in New Edinburgh ( now MacKay United Church, named after their first Elder and Trustee Thomas MacKay ), and in the Sandy Hill ( or Lower Town ) St. Paul's or Daly Street, as well as congregations in nearby Rochesterville ( Erskine ), Hull, Quebec, Cumberland, Manotick, Nepean ( Merivale, and Bells Corners ), that all became part of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, within the Presbytery of Ottawa.

When he was sixteen he entered the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh, working under Robert Scott Lauder with William Quiller Orchardson, J. MacWhirter, W. M. Taggart, Peter Graham, Tom Graham and George Paul Chalmers.

The Play was so successful that it was also invited to the Edinburgh Festival and received the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award.

In 1827, Macleod became a student at the University of Glasgow ; in 1831, he went to Edinburgh to study divinity under Dr Thomas Chalmers.

I felt rebuked beneath his eye .</ poem ></ small > In 1809, Scott persuaded James Ballantyne and his brother to move to Edinburgh and to establish their printing press there.

He granted the Edinburgh College of Surgeons a royal charter in 1506, turned Edinburgh Castle into one of Scotland's foremost gun foundries, and welcomed the establishment of Scotland's first printing press in 1507.

Expecting the English to press their advantage, the Scots hastily constructed a town wall around Edinburgh and augmented the castle's defences.

With the publication of his novel 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess ( Canongate, Edinburgh 2002 ), Home finally got the British literary press sitting up and taking serious notice of him, ironically for a book which carries his most acidic condemnations of the literary establishment.

Returning to Scotland in 1819, Haldane lived partly on his estate of Auchengray and partly in Edinburgh, and like his brother took an active part, chiefly through the press, in many of the religious controversies of the time.

The latter had almost been persuaded by his " dear Drummond " to print the later books of Poly-Olbion at Hart's Edinburgh press.

The earliest surviving edition ( c. 1553 ) was printed at London by William Copland ( d. 1569 ); an Edinburgh edition, from the press of Henry Charteris ( d. 1599 ), followed in 1579.

Cambridge: Edinburgh university press.

Merriman regards Somerset's failure to press on and capture Edinburgh and Leith as a loss of ' a magnificent opportunity ' and ' a massive blunder ' which cost him the war.

On being informed by letter of this manoeuvre, Muir, realising the impossibility of returning to Edinburgh in time, drafted a letter to the press stating his intention to return as soon as passport difficulties would admit.

His Mews House on Circus Lane in the New Town of Edinburgh was dubbed the ' Japanese House ' by the local press, and felt an inappropriate design for a World Heritage Site, though it subsequently won planning permission.

His friend Owen Dudley Edwards, an Irish-born Edinburgh historian, remembers his press briefings as unique: " Hostile journalists were staggered to hear him explain that their objections to this or that in the party were not really rewarding subjects but that a more useful question to raise would be this other.

He appeared alongside Rouse at the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh on August 2006 to 5 star reviews from the press.

Various options were put forward to keep the route open, such as singling large sections and reducing the number of signal boxes, and a ' basic ' DMU service to Edinburgh from Hawick only ; but this came to nothing, and British Rail ceased negotiations on 23 December 1969 and formally announced this to the press on 6 January 1970, after requesting interest payments to keep the infrastructure ' in situ ' while funding for the approximately £ 750, 000 capital required was sought.

( Edinburgh University's Chaplain, a supporter of the Anti-Nazi League, had taken Brand's e-mailed reflections on pederasty to the Scottish press.

Edinburgh: Tuckwell press.

By early 1941, Fuchs had returned temporarily to Edinburgh.

He also taught at the universities of Berlin ( 1921 ), Edinburgh ( 1936 ), Oxford ( 1939 – 1941 ), Paris ( 1961 ) and Heidelberg ( 1966 ), among other European universities.

In order to practice medicine in territories of the British Empire, however, he was apparently required to get a second medical degree ; he attended and graduated from the School of Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of Edinburgh in 1941.

He was commissioned into the Edinburgh University Officers ' Training Corps in 1941, but resigned his commission as a Lieutenant in 1945.

He returned to the British Isles for graduate work, receiving his Ph. D. at the University of Edinburgh in 1941.

In the twentieth century, Yearly Meetings started to be held outside of London, namely in Leeds in 1905 ; in Birmingham in 1908 ; in Manchester in 1912 ; in Llandrindrod Wells in 1924 ; in Scarborough in 1925 ; in Manchester in 1926 ; in Bristol in 1937 ; In York in 1941 and in 1942. in Edinburgh in 1948.

In 1941, the Polish School of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh was founded, where the first dean was surgeon Antoni Jurasz from the University of Poznań.

He was Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Edinburgh West from a by-election in 1935 to 1941.

* Alfred Joseph Clark ( 1885 – 1941 ), physician, and Professor of Pharmacology, University of Cape Town, 1918 – 1920, Professor of Pharmacology, University College, London, 1920 – 1926, and Professor of Materia Medica, University of Edinburgh, 1926 – 1941

Educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, the University of Edinburgh and Jesus College, Oxford, he served in the REME and SEAC from 1941 to 1946.