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Her dancing career started in Leicestershire where her father worked in an aircraft factory. She went into pantomime as a chorus girl and eventually became known when she did a chocolate commercial which led to work on television and films, Despite what other people say she doesn't think that shes a good dancer. She met actor Peter Gilmore and became engaged to him in 1953 and married in 1958 and live in Radlett, Hertfordshire. Her ambitions are to have a family, and to pass her advanced driving test. She makes some of her own clothes,- Actor
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The imposing Scottish character actor Graham Crowden was one of the most recognizable and reliable British screen actors who worked for over half a century. He was the third of four children of a Scottish Presbyterian classics teacher. His first job was in a tannery in Edinburgh. He joined the Royal Scots Youth Battalion in 1940, but was invalided out after being accidentally shot by his own platoon sergeant. After studies at Edinburgh Academy, he worked for the stage in 1944 as student assistant stage manager at the Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. This was followed by repertory experience in Dundee, Glasgow, Nottingham and with the Bristol Old Vic. A prolific actor at the Royal Court from the mid-1950's, and later with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Laurence Olivier's National Theatre. Tall and possessed of an incisive manner, resonant voice and larger-than-life personality, Crowden was at his best in eccentric portrayals as mad scientists or flawed men-of-the-cloth.
One of his most memorable film appearances was as the maniacal chief surgeon in Lindsay Anderson's Britannia Hospital (1982). In television, he turned down the role of Doctor Who (1963) in 1974 but later appeared in it opposite Tom Baker, who had been cast as the Doctor instead, to give the series one of its most memorably over-the-top villains. He also achieved success in later life in television comedies such as A Very Peculiar Practice (1986) and opposite Stephanie Cole in Waiting for God (1990). He continued to act until shortly before his death.- Neil Connery was a Scottish actor who was the brother of Sean Connery and the uncle of Jason Connery. He appeared in a few films during the late 1960s and then left to run a business in Glasgow. Neil was known for his role in the movie MD Experiment 508 Operation Kid Brother A.K.A. Operation Double 007 (as Dr. Neil Connery), a James Bond knock-off (featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 as Operation Double 007) and the film The Body Stealers (as Jim Radford).
- Russell Hunter was born on 18 February 1925 in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Callan (1974), Callan (1967) and The Gaffer (1981). He was married to Una McLean, Caroline Blakiston and Marjorie Thomson. He died on 26 February 2004 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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Avuncular character actor Glynn Edwards became best known to TV audiences as the gullible bartender Dave who presided over Arthur Daley's favourite watering hole in Minder (1979). He was born in Malaya the son of a rubber planter and brought up by his grandparents in Portsmouth. He started acting professionally in his 20s while living in Trinidad and working as assistant manager of a country club. Upon his return to England Glynn enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Upon graduation, he joined Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop for ten years. Under Littlewood's direction he acted on the West End and had a leading role on Broadway in Brendan Behan's play The Hostage. His screen career began in the mid-50s when he began enjoying regular employment in British television as supporting or guest actor, often cast as police constables or detectives. Among his numerous credits have been Sir Francis Drake (1961), Z Cars (1962), The Baron (1966) and The Saint (1962). Infrequent film appearances included a small role in the epic Zulu (1964) (Glynn recalled in a later interview that a series of Kelloggs commercials, also filmed in Africa, turned out to be ten times more profitable). After Minder finished in 1994, Glynn went into semi- retirement, splitting his time between Spain, Edinburgh and a houseboat on the River Thames. He was formerly married to George & Mildred (1976) actress Yootha Joyce and had a son from his second marriage to Christine Pilgrim.- The character actor Robert Urquhart was born in 1921 in Ullapool, Scotland. His stage debut came in 1947 and his film debut 5 years later. He worked steadily until the late 1980s in both film and television, usually playing the stalwart, dependable type. He became particularly well known on television as a regular in a number of British series, including Pathfinders (1972) and The Aweful Mr. Goodall (1974). His one film, made in the 1990s, Master of the Moor: Part 1 (1994), was his last before his death in 1995.
- Mary Riggans was born on 19 July 1935 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Dear Frankie (2004), Take the High Road (1980) and Killer (1983). She was married to Malcolm Taylor. She died on 2 December 2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- John Malcolm was born on 26 March 1936 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), Enemy at the Door (1978) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984). He was married to Tamara Fuerst. He died on 14 June 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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Kevin McGee was born in 1977 in Winsford, Cheshire, England, UK. He is known for The Morning After Show (2005), Comic Relief: Red Nose Night Live 05 (2005) and The Real Little Britain (2004). He was married to Matt Lucas. He died on 6 October 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.- Anne Kristen was born on 7 March 1937 in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for The View from Daniel Pike (1971), Hamish Macbeth (1995) and Casualty (1986). She was married to Iain Cuthbertson. She died on 7 August 1996 in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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Of Welsh ancestry through both his parents, Lewis was born in London in 1941. His grandmother was the noted opera singer Dame Ethel Gomer Lewis, and he was also related to the actor Rupert Davies who played Maigret.
Despite being somewhat typecast as an oafish character in many of his roles, Lewis was in fact a very bookish man, and had a personal library of over 35,000 volumes.
As a young man, his flat mate was the actor Ken Morley best known for Coronation Street. The pair remained friends throughout their lives and Morley was Lewis' best man at his wedding.- Edith MacArthur was born on 8 March 1926 in Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Rob Roy (1977), Sunset Song (1971) and The Omega Factor (1979). She died on 25 April 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Clarissa Dickson Wright was an English celebrity chef, television personality, businesswoman and a former barrister. She was best known as one half, along with Jennifer Paterson, of the incredibly popular television series, Two Fat Ladies. Having trained as a lawyer, Dickson Wright was the youngest woman ever to be called to the Bar.
At the age of 11, Clarissa was sent to Sacred Heart School. After school Clarissa studied for the Bar at Gray's Inn, while pursuing a law degree at University College London.
She practiced successfully as a barrister for several years. However, she found cookery to be her true calling when she worked at Books for Cooks in London's Notting Hill while recovering from 12 years of alcohol abuse.
During her time in Edinburgh, television producer Patricia Llewellyn asked her and Jennifer Paterson if they wanted to make a television programme; they made a pilot in autumn 1994. After the pilot, BBC2 commissioned a series of Two Fat Ladies. Three successful series were made and shown around the world. Paterson died in 1998 mid-way through the fourth series and Clarissa refused to make another series after her co-star's death.
She also appeared with Johnny Scott in Clarissa and the Countryman from 2000 to 2003 and played the gamekeeper in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous in 2003. In 2005, Dickson Wright took part in the BBC reality television show Art School.
Dickson Wright has campaigned for the Countryside Alliance and was the first female Rector of the University of Aberdeen. Her autobiography, Spilling The Beans, was published in September 2007.
In 2008, she presented a one-off documentary for BBC Four, Clarissa and the King's Cookbook, where she makes recipes from a cookbook dating to the reign of Richard II.
During her cooking career, Clarissa ran her own catering business, worked on a yacht in the Caribbean and served 60 meals a day at her London luncheon club. She also became one of only two women in England to become a guild butcher. She was represented in the UK by Useful Talent who are specialists in celebrity-led endorsements. - Actress
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Ningali Lawford was born in 1967 in Christmas Creek Station, Wangkatjungka, Fitzroy Crossing, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia. She was an actress, known for Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), Last Cab to Darwin (2015) and Mystery Road (2018). She was married to Joe Edgar Wolf. She died on 11 August 2019 in Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, UK.- Actor
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James Cairncross was born on 21 December 1915 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Tom Jones (1963), Doctor Who (1963) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He died on 17 December 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.- Bradley Welsh played gangster kingpin Mr. Doyle in T2 Trainspotting (2017) co-starring with Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle. He had no prior acting experience before T2 Trainspotting. He also appeared as himself in a documentary The Boxer From Somewhere Else (2012). It was his appearance on Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men that Welsh was noticed for T2 Trainspotting. Dyer's documentary profiled Welsh as one of the most dangerous men in the UK who more than lived up to the title when he worked in the protection rackets as a bodyguard and enforcer. He used boxing to turn his life around which cause Dyer to feature Welsh on Season Two of his show on the Bravo Channel.
As a young adolescent growing up in Moredun, a district of Edinburgh, Scotland, Welsh was a member of a gang of neighborhood terrors who quickly graduated from causing dust-ups in Edinburgh's neighborhoods to violent bloody brawls as soccer casuals - attacking the opposing team players and their supporters. By age 13, his size and his anger were put to use as he moved out of the gangs into the neighborhood protection rackets, guarding anything from dubious warehouse shipments to people to drugs. He was incarcerated at age 14 and upon release, it was his brother who steered his aggression into boxing at the neighborhood gym.
It paid off. At age 17, Bradley Welsh became the 1993 lightweight champion in the Amateur Boxing Association of England, the youngest age allowed to register in the ABA. He learned how to market himself and earned enough money as a boxer to eventually buy his Holyrood Boxing Gym. He spoke locally to young people who were on the wrong path and used his gym to steer them in. Edinburgh Evening News editor Liam Rudden said on Twitter that Welshh was able to train his actors in two sessions to make them into believable boxers for a local stage play "A Cock and Bull Story."
Bradley Welsh came into notice by his appearance on Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men. He was cast in T2 Trainspotting which was released in 2017. There were no acting jobs after the movie wrapped and Welsh went back to part time bodyguard work and devoting his time to charities to keep young people out of trouble. His age has been misreported as 48. The official report of his death lists his age as 42, born in 1976.
On the night of April 17, 2019, after leaving his Holyrood Gym to go home, Welsh was walking down the steps to his flat in Chester Street when he was shot. The gunman ran off. His partner and young child who were inside didn't hear the gunshot. Bradley Welsh was found by a neighbor on the staircase around 8pm and he died at the scene. Police searched for the gunman and two days later, tips led to the arrest of a 28-year-old man who was also charged in the assault of a 22-year-old Pitcairn Grove man in March 2017. Police said that murders were extremely rare in the capital city and the use of a firearm were even more rare. The Daily Star newspaper reported they had an underworld source who claimed that Welsh was targeted by a hit man. In the process of providing muscle to protect 3 kg of heroin and 2 kg of cocaine, the shipment suddenly went missing on his watch. The source said the reason Welsh was targeted was because he could not explain the disappearance of the drugs. As of 2020, the accused hit man has not had a court date.
Bradley Welsh started out life as a street fighter in the ghettos of Moredun who turned his life around to become a lightweight boxing champ. owner of Holyrood Boxing Gym and a great supporter of children at risk. Police said it was likely that he fell back into old illegal activities which caused him to be gunned down at age 42. - Geoffrey Wilkinson was born on 5 October 1942 in Sneinton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Calendar Girls (2003), Brideshead Revisited (2008) and Heartbeat (1992). He was married to Rita May. He died on 13 August 2007 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Dawn Archibald was born on 20 June 1958 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Company of Wolves (1984), Mona Lisa (1986) and My Beautiful Laundrette (1985). She died on 2 May 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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Chic Murray was born on 6 November 1919 in Greenock, Scotland, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Casino Royale (1967), Gregory's Girl (1980) and The Chic Murray Collection (2009). He was married to Maidie Dickson. He died on 29 January 1985 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.- Stephen Archibald was born on 5 May 1959 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for My Way Home (1978), My Childhood (1972) and My Ain Folk (1973). He died on 24 March 1998 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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Roy Urquhart was born on 28 November 1901 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is known for A Bridge Too Far (1977). He was married to Pamela Edith Condon. He died on 13 December 1988 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.- Writer
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John McGrath was born on 1 June 1935 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for Carrington (1995), The Bofors Gun (1968) and Six (1964). He was married to Elizabeth MacLennan. He died on 22 January 2002 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.- Sandy Neilson was born on 29 January 1943 in Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Taggart (1983), The Debt Collector (1999) and Jute City (1991). He was married to Beth Robens. He died on 19 October 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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Tam White was born on 21 July 1942 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Braveheart (1995), Cutthroat Island (1995) and EastEnders (1985). He died on 21 June 2010 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.- Writer
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Compton MacKenzie was born on 17 January 1883 in West Hartlepool, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Sylvia Scarlett (1935), The Ballet Girl (1916) and Sinister Street (1922). He was married to Lillian McSween, Christine McSween and Faith Stone. He died on 30 November 1972 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.- Director
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Ken Grieve was born on 31 March 1942 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was a director and assistant director, known for The Omega Factor (1979), Poirot (1989) and Bugs (1995). He was married to Fiona Mary Mouat. He died on 15 November 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.- Composer
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David McNiven was a musician and composer whose work featured in theatre, on radio and on television - he provided the music for Rab C Nesbitt amongst other shows - as well as winning his group Bread Love and Dreams cult status among aficionados of progressive rock and acid folk music.
The group's three albums, recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s, sold disappointingly at the time but now fetch three- and four-figure sums among collectors of vintage vinyl.
Born in Dennistoun, McNiven was given his first instrument, a banjo, by his grandmother and used it to write his first song. He also played clarinet and saxophone and when, in his teens, he met and became friends with another Dennistoun boy on holiday in Millport, the actor Bill Paterson, he formed his first performing partnership.
The two would busk on the streets of the resort as strolling players, Paterson reciting scenes from Shakespeare while wearing a white sheet and McNiven singing and accompanying himself. They came to the attention of Duncan Macrae, the actor and comedian, who had a house in Millport and became a mentor and friend, inviting them to his house in Glasgow to watch the ground-breaking satirical television show That Was The Week That Was and sip cider.
At school, after Dennistoun Private School he attended the High School of Glasgow - McNiven hated classical music lessons but he was encouraged by his English teacher, Donald MacCormick, later a broadcaster and Newsnight presenter. MacCormick gave McNiven a room to himself and told him to get on with playing guitar and writing songs.
McNiven went on to study drama and did various jobs, including bingo caller, bus conductor and laborers at an iron works before, in 1967, he formed Bread Love and Dreams with singer-guitarist-keyboards player Angie Rew, who became his wife, and guitarist Carolyn Davis. While appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe, the group came to the attention of and were subsequently championed by Ray Horricks, a producer and A&R man at Decca Records who had overseen guitar legend Davy Graham's recordings, and they released their eponymous first album in early 1969.
Despite the group touring the UK extensively with Tyrannosaurus Rex and Magna Carta to promote it, the album sold poorly and Davis left. McNiven kept writing and developed a relationship with the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. One of the pieces intended for the next Bread Love and Dreams album, Mother Earth, was adapted for the theatre group and performed in Edinburgh, then toured to London and Europe.
In 1970, Bread Love and Dreams went back into the studio with session players including The Pentangle's rhythm section, bassist Danny Thompson and drummer Terry Cox, and recorded enough material for a double album. This eventually appeared as two separate albums, The Strange Tale of Captain Shannon and The Hunchback from Gigha and Amaryllis, after which McNiven decided to pursue theatre projects.
He acted with the Traverse Theatre Workshop then the Young Lyceum and joined the 7.84 Theatre Company, going on to form its music offshoot, Wildcat, with Rew, keyboardist Dave Anderson and singer Terry Neason. Shows for Neason, including Jenny and the Poison Factory, and work on Liz Lochhead's Dracula followed and as well as leading the backing band for Emma Thompson's breakthrough Edinburgh Fringe show McNiven composed for BBC Scotland's Naked Radio, subsequently moving on to television work with A Kick up the Eighties and Naked Video and composing the theme for Ben Elton's Happy Families, which was played by the Halle Orchestra.
At one point McNiven was commuting daily between Granada Television's studio in Manchester, where he was working on Alfresco with Robbie Coltrane and Stephen Fry, and Edinburgh, where he had a rock version of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera running at the Lyceum. For Rab C Nesbitt he not only wrote the theme tune and all the incidental music, he also played the parts of Marshall Gormley and Clatty McCutcheon. Altogether he composed the themes for more than twenty television series including Atletico Partick.
In more recent times McNiven worked with children and adults with special educational needs notably with Drake Music Scotland. Here he successfully campaigned for the Scottish Qualifications Authority to recognize the Brainfingers system, which allows pupils with cerebral palsy to create music with a laptop and to interact with other musicians, as just as valid as conventional musical instruments. Share article
He is survived by his wife, Angie, daughters Anya and Lucille and son Martin.- Hector Nichol was a Paisley comedian, actor and singer. He recorded football songs for Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian, Dundee United and Dundee, but his other lasting legacy, as well as a spate of video releases of his stand up routines, is in a very different vein. In 1979 he took on the role of a dying gangster in the shocking Peter McDougall drama Just a Boy's Game for the BBC. His performance was a remarkable study of stubborn, hollow disregard for life around him, and despite a few tell-tale signs of his comic skill in his perfectly timed insults, this was a brilliant transformation. Sadly his potential career as a straight actor was cut short by his death in the early eighties.
- Alex Howden was an actor, known for Gangs of New York (2002), Strictly Sinatra (2001) and The Acid House (1998). He died on 15 August 2015 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Peter Tobin died on 8 October 2022 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Bridget Biagi was born on 4 November 1935 in Lincolnshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The House on the Hill (1981), Dramarama (1983) and Taggart (1983). She was married to Carlo Biagi. She died on 8 June 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- James Bridie was born on 3 January 1888 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was a writer, known for Under Capricorn (1949), Storm in a Teacup (1937) and Folly to Be Wise (1952). He was married to Rona Locke Bremner. He died on 29 January 1951 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- David Daiches was born on 2 September 1912 in Sunderland, Durham, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Full Man (1964), Who Said That? (1955) and Read All About It (1974). He was married to Hazel Newman Neville and Isobel (Billie) Janet Mackay. He died on 15 July 2005 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Margery Morris was born on 9 August 1914 in Canada. She was an actress, known for Bedtime Story (1938) and A Dog's Life (1952). She died in 1978 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Tom Fleming was born on 29 June 1927 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for King Lear (1970), Jesus of Nazareth (1956) and An Age of Kings (1960). He died on 18 April 2010 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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Frank Deasy was born on 19 May 1959 in Dublin, Ireland. He was a writer and producer, known for Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act (2006), Father & Son (2009) and The Courier (1988). He was married to Marie Connolly. He died on 17 September 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.- Angus Calder was born on 5 February 1942 in Belmont, Sutton, Surrey, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The World at War (1973). He was married to Catherine (Kate) Janet Kyle and Jennifer (Jenni) Rachel Daiches. He died on 5 June 2008 in Joppa, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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Michael Elder was born on 30 April 1931 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Flight of the Heron (1976), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978) and Sam (1973). He was married to Sheila Donald. He died on 28 July 2004 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.- Peter Higgs was born on 29 May 1929 in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK. He was married to Jody Williamson. He died on 8 April 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Romilly Squire was born on 3 May 1953 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) and Conquest of the South Pole (1989). He died on 7 December 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Alma Cullen was born on 10 May 1938 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Inspector Morse (1987), Intimate Contact (1987) and The Advocates (1991). She was married to James Cullen. She died on 7 August 2021 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK.
- Mairhi Russell was born in 1923 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Gilbert and Sullivan: The Immortal Jesters (1961), Undermind (1965) and Made (1972). She died in 1986 in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Tom Fidelo was born on 26 October 1932 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Borderers (1968), The Stanley Baxter Show (1963) and The Highland Jaunt (1968). He was married to Eileen McCallum. He died on 31 August 2020 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Hans Oppenheimer was born on 25 April 1892 in Berlin, Germany. He was a producer, known for Code Name: Jaguar (1965), Stop Train 349 (1963) and Wir Kellerkinder (1960). He died on 19 August 1965 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- John Reith was born on 20 July 1889 in Stonehaven, Scotland, UK. He was married to Muriel Odhams. He died on 16 June 1971 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Jean Bruce was born on 4 April 1915 in Uphall, West Lothian, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Killer (1983), Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962) and Z Cars (1962). She died on 25 November 1989 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Alex Young was born on 3 February 1937 in Loanhead, Midlothian, Scotland, UK. He was married to Nancy. He died on 27 February 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- David Hume was born on 7 May 1711 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. David died on 25 August 1776 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Thomas De Quincey was born on 15 August 1785 in Manchester, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Histoires extraordinaires à faire peur ou à faire rire... (1949), La monja alférez (1987) and Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962). He died on 8 December 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Stephen Salter was born on 7 December 1938 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was married to Margaret Donaldson. He died on 23 February 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.