Tour Scotland early Autumn travel video, with Scottish music, of a road trip drive West on the A91 road on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Cupar in North East Fife. The town is believed to have grown around the site of Cupar Castle, which was the seat of the sheriff and was owned by the earls of Fife. The area became a centre for judiciary as the county of Fife and as a market town catering for both cattle and sheep. The historic town centre is the junction of Bonnygate and the Crossgate.
Robert Robertson was born in Cupar, on 17 April 1869, the son of J. A. Robertson, a doctor of dental surgery, and Euphemia Russell. He was educated at Bell Baxter High School. Robertson won the Balgonie Gold Medal in 1885 as Dux of Madras Academy, Cupar, one of the two schools that amalgamated to form Bell Baxter in 1889. The School Honours Boards list the winners of that medal from its institution in 1861. After leaving school he attended St Andrews University, where he graduated in both Arts and Science. He was then appointed assistant in the laboratory of the city analyst in Glasgow. He later obtained the post of analyst in the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey in Essex, England. His work as Director of Explosives Research during the Great War was recognised with the award of a KBE, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. He was also honoured with his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1917. In 1921 he became Chief Government Chemist, a post held until his retirement in 1936. Robertson married Kathleen Stannus Stannus in 1903. They had two children: Jesanne Euphemia Stannus in 1909, and Robert Hugh Stannus in 1911. He was brother-in-law to Hugh Stannus Stannus. Robert Robertson died on 28 April 1949.
Jane Stocks "Jean" Greig was born in 1872 in Cupar, to Jane née Stocks and Robert Greig, the oldest of seven children. She was educated at the High School of Dundee until the family migrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1889, where she then attended Brunswick Ladies College. Her father encouraged his children to pursue tertiary education, and in 1891 both she and her sister Janet enrolled at the medical school of the University of Melbourne. She graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine in 1895, and completed her Bachelor of Surgery with honours in 1896. After leaving university, she worked in general practice in the Melbourne suburbs of Brighton and Fitzroy, and in 1896 founded the Victorian Medical Women's Society. She was a founding member of the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Children in 1896 and was an honorary medical staff member at the hospital until 1910. Greig returned to the University of Melbourne to study for a Diploma of Public Health; when she completed the degree in 1910 she became the first woman at the university to do so. She went on to work for the Victorian Department of Education as a medical officer, providing healthcare services for schoolchildren. She was promoted to the department's Chief Medical Officer in 1929. From 1924 to 1925, she was a commissioner on the Royal Commission on Health. She visited a number of countries to give talks on types medical and dental inspection, and published numerous articles and reports in the Medical Journal of Australia. She was a lecturer in hygiene at the University of Melbourne and at the Teachers' Training College from 1916 to 1939. Greig died from cancer in 1939 in Richmond, Victoria. She was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2007, and in 2012 she was featured in an Australian postage stamp series titled Medical Doctors.
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