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On This Day: 1st of October
On this day in 1936:
Hector Hetherington becomes Principal
Sir Hector Hetherington took up post as Principal of the University of Glasgow
On this day in 1947:
Anderson's College
The Anderson's College buildings were transferred to the University, which assumed responsibility for the educational work carried on there.
On this day in 1949:
Glasgow Veterinary College is incorporated with the University
After 4 years of partnership and preparation, Glasgow Veterinary College and the University formally merged.
On this day in 1958:
Glasgow appoints the UK's first professor of Virology
Michael Stoker was appointed to the first Chair of Virology in a UK University.
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1768
Robert Simson died.
On this day in 1940
George Service died.
On this day in 1911
Sir James King Baronet died.
On this day in 1937
Kenneth Stephen was born.
On this day in 1899
George Pryde was born.
On this day in 2004
Ernest Best died.
On this day in 1743
William Richardson was born.
On this day in 1906
W Arthur Mackey was born.
On this day in 1924
Eva Schaper was born.
On this day in 1853
John Morris Davies was born.
On this day in 1859
John Henry Tudsbery Tudsbery was born.
On this day in 1881
Francis Sara Chambers was born.
On this day in 1864
Michael Joseph Connell was born.
On this day in 1878
Jennie Dick was born.
On this day in 1881
John Cochrane Henderson was born.
On this day in 1874
Robert Fleming Kinloch was born.
On this day in 1878
Thomas Walker Love was born.
On this day in 1889
Isabel Mitchell Macphail was born.
On this day in 1881
Robert Scott McIntosh was born.
On this day in 1886
Charles McNeil was born.
On this day in 1879
Irving Maffat Morgan was born.
On this day in 1875
John Lyle Morison was born.
On this day in 1869
William Shearer was born.
On this day in 1888
John Ebenezer Stewart was born.
On this day in 1887
Jessie Cochrane Storrie was born.
On this day in 1877
Peter Taylor Young was born.
On this day in 1890
Jotindra Nath Bhattacharjee was born.
On this day in 1891
Mary McDonald Dunlop was born.
On this day in 1891
Humphrey Robertson was born.
On this day in 1892
Harold Congdon Anthony was born.
On this day in 1894
Archibald Campbell Brown was born.
On this day in 1891
Thomas Beaton Manson was born.
On this day in 1891
Jogendra Chandra Roy was born.
On this day in 1894
Margaret Hogg Grant was born.