S.K. was visiting C.C.B. and, not waiting for breakfast, he was off to the University Club, where he spent hours writing obituaries of living Americans for The Manchester Guardian or The Glasgow Herald.

He was twice successful as the Glasgow University Conservative Association's candidate for Rector of the University, holding the post for two full terms between 1871 and 1877.

His personal library, purchased after his death, eventually came to the University of Glasgow, where a commemorative exhibition of books from his library was held in 1974.

* Black, Matthew, and Robert Davidson, Constantin von Tischendorf and the Greek New Testament Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 1981.

1678, Harvard College ; A. M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow ) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer ; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.

Category: Alumni of the University of Glasgow

Category: Alumni of the University of Glasgow

Despite his acquittal, Hume failed to gain the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow.

A native of Glasgow, Dewar studied at Glasgow University and worked there as a solicitor.

He attended the Glasgow Academy before studying at the University of Glasgow, in 1957, where he gained both a MA degree in History in 1961, and a second-class LLB degree in 1964, as well as editing the Glasgow University Guardian.

In his time at university he also served as Chair of the Glasgow University Labour Club and President of the Glasgow University Union.

* Catalogue of exhibition at the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow and the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Category: Rectors of the University of Glasgow

From 1904 to 1914, Soddy was a lecturer at the University of Glasgow and while there he showed that uranium decays to radium.

He became involved in debating with the Glasgow University Dialectic Society and the Glasgow University Union.

Born in Inverness, Scotland, he studied Scots law at the University of Glasgow and became involved in debating with the Glasgow University Dialectic Society and at the Glasgow University Union, where he befriended contemporary Labourites Donald Dewar and John Smith.

He was also a member of the Dialectic Society and the Conservative Club and participated in Glasgow University Union inter-varsity debates.

The union's formation was driven by members of Glasgow University Dialectic Society, the Glasgow University Medico-Chirurgical Society and the Glasgow University Athletic Club.

), where he was a member of the Glasgow University Union and Dialectic Society, and at Edinburgh ( Ph. D .), where he lectured in the Faculty of Law from 1964 until 1977.

Founded in 1802, Med-Chir is one of the University's oldest societies and, along with the Glasgow University Dialectic Society and Glasgow University Athletic Club, was instrumental in founding the Glasgow University Union, with which it retains close ties.

The Glasgow University Dialectic Society, re-instituted in 1861, is a student society at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, committed to the promotion of debating, logic, ethics and literary discussion at the University.

There is also an Inter-Board Debate, held between the boards of the four major student bodies ( Glasgow University Union, Queen Margaret Union, Students ' Representative Council and Glasgow University Sports Association ), and the Honorary President's Debate, as well as a St Andrews-tide football game and a Sports Day, the Dialectic Olympics.

The Dialectic Society, along with the Glasgow University Medico-Chirurgical Society and Glasgow University Athletic Club, helped drive the formation of the Glasgow University Union in 1885, as well as being instrumental in establishing the Glasgow University Students ' Representative Council the following year, and remains an active contributor to the activities of both organisations.

The archives of Glasgow University Dialectic Society are maintained by the Archives of the University of Glasgow ( GUAS ).

* Records of Glasgow University Dialectic Society

* 23 January 2008 – Graham Medal of the Glasgow Philosophical Society, awarded after he gave his lecture " DNA Profiling ; Past, present and future ", which was nominated as the Graham Lecture.

This Glasgow scientist seems to have been the first to suggest the usage of a manometric gas flame for optical transmission, demonstrated at a meeting of the Glasgow Philosophical Society ; " The History of selenium and its action in the Bell Photophone, with description of recently designed form ", Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow No. 13, 1881, * * * Moser, J.

It is the only church by the Glasgow born artist to be built and is now the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society headquarters.

* Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, Glasgow

Scottish country dancing was in danger of dying out when, in 1923, the Scottish Country Dance Society ( SCDS ) was founded in Glasgow with the goal of preserving " country dances as danced in Scotland " ( this was only recently changed to read " Scottish country dances ").

The oldest association in the United Kingdom similar to the YMCA was founded in Scotland in 1824 as Glasgow Young Men's Society for Religious Improvement.

The culture was oriented to books, and intense discussions took place daily at such intellectual gathering places in Edinburgh as The Select Society and, later, The Poker Club as well as within Scotland ’ s ancient universities such as Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

In 1978, following the much-postponed publication of further volumes in Velikovsky's Ages in Chaos series, the United Kingdom-based Society for Interdisciplinary Studies organised a conference in Glasgow specifically to debate the revised chronology.

Rejecting the Revised Chronology of Immanuel Velikovsky and the Glasgow Chronology presented at the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies's 1978 " Ages in Chaos " conference, the New Chronology lowers the Egyptian dates ( established within the traditional chronology ) by up to 350 years at points prior to the universally accepted fixed date of 664 BC for the sacking of Thebes by Ashurbanipal.

An organiser for the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, in the 1918 General Election Maclean was elected to the House of Commons to represent the Govan seat in Glasgow.

* Ellen Glasgow Society

Martin was presented with an award by the European Respiratory Society in Glasgow on 4 September 2004 for his work on the smoking ban.

He became U. S. Consul in Glasgow after the war until 1869 and then covered the Franco-Prussian war for the New York Herald and because of his military rank was accepted in Prussian Society and presented to the Kaiser Wilhelm I.

They included the Royal Humane Society in 1774, the Glasgow Humane Society in 1790, and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ( RSPCA ) in 1824.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

From 1882 the village was served by Aberfoyle railway station, the terminus of the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway which connected to Glasgow via Dumbarton or Kirkintilloch The station closed to passenger traffic in 1951, and the remaining freight services ceased in 1959.

He is also associated with the first recorded instance of a cycling traffic offence, when a Glasgow newspaper in 1842 reported an accident in which an anonymous " gentleman from Dumfries-shire ... bestride a velocipede ... of ingenious design " knocked over a little girl in Glasgow and was fined five shillings.

The estate was conveniently located within easy walking distance of Bletchley railway station, where the " Varsity Line " between the cities of Oxford and Cambridge – whose universities supplied many of the code-breakers – met the ( then-LMS ) main West Coast railway line between London and Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow.

In the Glasgow Hillhead by-election in March 1982, another candidate named Roy Jenkins was nominated by Labour Party activists to contest the seat in order to confuse voters and split his potential vote.

Other cable car systems were implemented in Europe, though, among which was the Glasgow District Subway, the first underground cable car system, in 1896.

He was also elected as the MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, the seat he also represented as an MP.

Born at 194 Renfrew Street, Glasgow on 21 August 1937 to mature parents, Dewar was an only child.

Donald Dewar was selected for the seat Glasgow Garscadden by a majority of three, after Dewar's friend the veteran Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers MP Willie Small died unexpectedly.

At the 1997 general election he became MP for Glasgow Anniesland, which was largely the same constituency with minor boundary changes.

He was elected as the Member of the Scottish Parliament ( MSP ) for Glasgow Anniesland, becoming both MP and MSP for this constituency.

Dewar's funeral service was held at Glasgow Cathedral, amid scenes of mourning unknown for a politician in Scotland's largest city.

* Justin Ryan-interior decorator and television presenter, although born in Glasgow, was brought up in Fort William.

In December a chest specialist was summoned from Glasgow who pronounced Orwell seriously ill and a week before Christmas 1947 he was in Hairmyres hospital in East Kilbride, then a small village in the countryside, on the outskirts of Glasgow.

In 1814, the Tolbooth was sold-with the exception of the steeple, which still remains-and the council chambers moved to Jail Square in the Saltmarket, near Glasgow Green.