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  • An early black and white portrait photo of a person looking off to the right. They are smiling, and wearing a dark suit, white shirt and black cravat, with two holly leaves pinned to their lapel. They have large grey sideburns reaching down to their cheeks.

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    John Scott Russell

    Inventive engineer and founder of single-wave theory

  • Black and white photo of man wearing an officer

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    Cyril Percy Ryan

    Navy Captain who invented the hydrophone for use in submarine detection

  • Old portrait image of David Robertson. He has a white beard and is wearing an academic cap and gown.

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    David Robertson

    'The Cumbrae Naturalist'

  • Black and white drawing of a person in period dress wearing a bonnet-style hat.

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    Mary Somerville

    Astronomer, scientist and polymath, known as ‘the queen of science’

  • A person with a small moustache and wearing a soldier

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    Charles Hamilton Sorley

    Army officer and poet, known for his First World War poetry and letters

  • Two black and white portraits of white women, both with the appearance of white hair.

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    Louisa Stevenson / Christian Guthrie Wright

    Campaigners for women’s education and founders of Queen Margaret University

  • Young woman with short hair, photographed in side profile. Image is black and white.

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    Dorothy Emily Stevenson

    Author of over 40 popular novels

  • A watercolour painting of a person wearing a dark coat looking directly forwards. They have red cheeks and small white tufts of hair over their ears, and a thin smile on their face.

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    Robert Stevenson

    Engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board who designed and built the Bell Rock Lighthouse

  • Black and white image of a seated man wearing a suit and tie. He has one hand on the arm of the chair and is looking at the camera.

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    Bram Stoker

    Author of Dracula

  • Black and white image of woman sat in wicker chair in a garden. She is wearing a hat and holding a handbag on her lap.

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    Mary Symon

    Scottish poet who expressed the heartbreak of the First World War

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    Dr Margaret Caroline Tait

    Avant-garde film maker and the first Scottish woman to direct a feature length film

  • Black and white portrait photo of a young looking John Thomson from 1898. Thomson has a mutton-chop style beard, with his long dark moustache joining up with even longer white sideburns. He is wearing a dark suit, with a white shirt and tie.

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    John Thomson

    Early photographer celebrated for his ground-breaking images of China

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