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On This Day: 4th of April
On this day in 1867:
First Stone is Laid on Gilmorehill
Work begins to build the new campus on Gilmorehill in January 1867 and the first stone is laid 4 April 1867.
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1988
John Menzies Halliday died.
On this day in 2004
Sir Alwyn Williams died.
On this day in 1916
Sir John Eldon Gorst died.
On this day in 1884
Thomas Murray MacRobert was born.
On this day in 1878
George Barger was born.
On this day in 1992
Stanley Alstead died.
On this day in 1925
Sir Malcolm Macnaughton was born.
On this day in 1863
Alexander Bryce was born.
On this day in 1864
James Hill was born.
On this day in 1816
William Dawson Hooker was born.
On this day in 1948
James Alexander McCallum died.
On this day in 1863
Lewis Robertson Sutherland was born.
On this day in 1887
Charles Averill was born.
On this day in 1873
William Napier Bell was born.
On this day in 1886
John Rankine Brown was born.
On this day in 1878
Alexander Pender Crichton was born.
On this day in 1940
Cunison Charles Finlator died.
On this day in 1873
Norman Fleming was born.
On this day in 1883
James Bell Foulis was born.
On this day in 1883
James Mair Frew was born.
On this day in 1883
James Dunlop Kidd was born.
On this day in 1880
Chrissibelle Macdonald was born.
On this day in 1884
Alexander Fisher MacRobert was born.
On this day in 1886
William Aubrey Layard Marriott was born.
On this day in 1890
Charles William Marshall was born.
On this day in 1882
Ewen McKinnon was born.
On this day in 1877
Alexander McGaw McMillan was born.
On this day in 1875
Charles McNeil was born.
On this day in 1875
John Cassels Monteith was born.
On this day in 1882
John Murdoch was born.
On this day in 1856
Leverett E Akins was born.
On this day in 1891
Adolph Aaron Saphir died.
On this day in 1887
Amelia McGregor Cameron was born.
On this day in 1883
Captain James Bell Foulis was born.
On this day in 1726
John Murray was born.
On this day in 1891
Devendra Nath Joshi was born.
On this day in 1869
Charles McKee Cantrall was born.
On this day in 1894
Robert Black was born.
On this day in 1895
Neil McEachran was born.
On this day in 1888
Mary Rhys was born.
On this day in 1883
Frank Robertson was born.
On this day in 1894
Elizabeth Douglas was born.
On this day in 1893
James Guthrie Menzies was born.
On this day in 1893
Robert Wiggins was born.
On this day in 1904
Mary Rachel Grigor was born.
On this day in 1936
Allan Hamilton FRSE was born.