Old Photograph Main Street Barrhead Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage, shops, houses and people on Main Street in Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. The name Barrhead comes from the agricultural term Barr meaning long ploughed furrows for cultivation of crops. Barrhead was formed when a series of small textile producing villages, Barrhead, Arthurlie, Grahamston and Gateside, gradually grew into one another to form one contiguous town.

James David Provins Graham was born in Barrhead on 8 February 1914. He was educated at Barrhead High School and Hyndland Secondary School, then studied Medicine at Glasgow University and graduated BSc in 1937. He received his doctorate in 1939. In the Second World War he was commissioned in March 1941 and later served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt at the rank of Captain, attached to the 8th Army. After the war he was promoted to Major, serving at the military hospital at Buchanan Castle in Drymen in Scotland. In 1946 he began lecturing in Pharmacology at Glasgow University as an ICI Research Fellow. In 1948 he moved to the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff as a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology and Toxicology becoming a Professor in 1971. In 1969 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Alexander Bain, George Howard Bell, James Brough and Henry M Adam. He retired in 1979. He died on 16 May 1989. History Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.



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