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Old Photograph Hanover Street Stranraer Scotland
Old photograph of shops, cars, people and buildings on Hanover Street in Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Sir James Caird, who was born in Stranraer in 1816, was a Scottish agricultural writer and politician. He was educated at Edinburgh High School and University of Edinburgh. He was Member of Parliament for Dartmouth, England, from 1857 to 1859 and for Stirling Burghs from 1859 to 1865. He was a free trade farmer. In 1849, he wrote High Farming as the best Substitute for Protection. He toured American, and Canada. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1865, President of the Royal Statistical Society, 1880 and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1889. He was senior member of the Land Commission in 1882. He was director of the land department of the Board of Agriculture from 1889 to 1891.
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