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On This Day: 28th of September
On this day in 1703:
Coal and Candle
The Faculty chose David Holmes, the servant of the janitor Claud Hamilton, "to succeed... James Hall... in providing coal and candle... and to the making of the beds within the College and generally all other things [formerly done by James Hall]".
On this day in 1938:
Gardiner Institute
The Gardiner Institute of Medicine was formally opened by Lady Gardiner, widow of the shipowner Sir Frederick Crombie Gardiner. An address was given by Right Hon John Colville MP, the Secretary of State for Scotland.
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1942
Percy Hillhouse died.
On this day in 1942
George Henderson died.
On this day in 1943
Stewart Hillis was born.
On this day in 1856
Hugh Kirkland was born.
On this day in 1868
Joseph Newbigging Glaister was born.
On this day in 1856
Charles Gilroy King was born.
On this day in 1871
William McCall was born.
On this day in 1868
William Dove MacFarlane was born.
On this day in 1867
Andrew Stewart Tindal was born.
On this day in 1881
Robert Adam was born.
On this day in 1890
Ann Cook Anderson was born.
On this day in 1888
Martha Law Howie was born.
On this day in 1885
Nicholas Stewart McCallum was born.
On this day in 1884
Walter Malcolm McCulloch was born.
On this day in 1885
James McMillan McMillan was born.
On this day in 1886
John Fisher McRae was born.
On this day in 1880
Alexander Harper Napier was born.
On this day in 1876
George Shann was born.
On this day in 1885
James Cameron Stewart was born.
On this day in 1879
John Stewart was born.
On this day in 1873
Andrew Taylor was born.
On this day in 1881
Svend Greund Henningsen was born.
On this day in 1883
Andrew Hepburn Syme Adams was born.
On this day in 1891
William Adam Brechin was born.
On this day in 1891
David Gordon was born.
On this day in 1892
Margaret Winifred McSkimming was born.
On this day in 1868
Pasquale Infante was born.
On this day in 1915
2nd Lieutenant Harold Arthur Cruickshank died.
On this day in 1915
Harold Arthur Cruickshank died.
On this day in 1892
John Morrison Hay was born.
On this day in 1892
George Menary was born.
On this day in 1893
Agnes Orr MacPhail was born.
On this day in 1896
Elizabeth Mary Duff was born.
On this day in 1894
George Strachan was born.
On this day in 2012
Martin Paul Weaver died.