Tour Scotland photograph of the Mary Syme gravestone in Gask Parish Churchyard cemetery, Perthshire, Scotland. Mary Syme who died aged 4 years and one month in December, 1834.
Famous Symes from Scotland include:
James Syme, born 7 November 1799, died 26 June 1870, who was a pioneering Scottish surgeon. James was born in Edinburgh. His father was a writer to the signet and a landowner in Fife and Kinross, who lost most of his fortune in attempting to develop the mineral resources of his property. James was sent to the Royal High School at the age of nine, and remained until he was fifteen, when he entered the University of Edinburgh. For two years he frequented the arts classes, including Botany, and in 1817 began the medical curriculum, devoting himself with particular keenness to chemistry. His chemical experiments led him to the discovery that a valuable substance is obtainable from coal tar which has the property of dissolving india-rubber, and could be used for waterproofing silk and other textile fabrics; an idea which was patented a few months afterwards by Charles Macintosh, of Glasgow. He married the sister of his former colleague, Robert Willis.
David Syme, born 2 October 1827, died 14 February 1908, who was a Scottish Australian newspaper proprietor of The Age and regarded as "the father of protection in Australia" who had immense influence in the Government of Victoria. Syme was born at North Berwick in Scotland, the youngest of the seven children and fourth son of George Alexander Syme a parish schoolmaster. David's mother, was Jean née Mitchell.
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