James Murray MD was listed in the Post Office Directory at No. 6 Malta Terrace in 1883/4, the home of his father James Murray. He was born 20 July 1858 on Hamilton Place, Edinburgh, and was listed at No. 6 Malta Terrace in the censuses of 1861 and 1871, aged 2 and 12. He graduated…
W Thomson M.A., B.Sc., F.R.S.E. was listed at No. 4 in 1883/84. Sir William Thomson was a mathematician, born 31 December 1856 at Kirkton of Mailler, Perthshire, and died 6 August 1947. He was an Assistant in Mathematics at Edinburgh University, 1878-83; and appointed Professor of Mathematics at Stellenbosch University in 1883. Principal 1924-8 Witwatersrand…
John Kerr Craig, minister at the Dean Street United Presbyterian church, lived at No. 5 from about 1883 to 1887. Born at Lochwinnoch on 2 September 1844, John Craig was ordained at Ramsbottom in 1871. Between 1872 and 1882 he served at Ancoats, Manchester, and was inducted at Dean Street, Edinburgh on 19 October 1882….