Old Photographs High Street Banchory Scotland

Old photograph of shops, people and buildings on the High Street in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. John Macqueen Cowan, born 1892, died 1960, was a prominent Scottish botanist in the mid 20th century. He was born in Banchory in northern Scotland in 1891 or 1892. He was educated at Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen. He then attended both Edinburgh and Oxford University training as a botanist, specialising in trees, receiving a postgraduate doctorate from Oxford in 1927. From 1927 to 1929 he worked with the Indian Forest Service and conducted many studies of tree species throughout India.


Old photograph of the High Street, Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of the High Street, Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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