Old Photograph Of Prince Street In Peterhead Scotkand

Old photograph of Prince Street in Peterhead, Scotland. Famous people born in or near Peterhead include; Eric Temple Bell, born February 7, 1883, died December 21, 1960, who was a mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. Charles Creighton, born November 22, 1847, died July 18, 1927, who was a British physician and medical author, highly regarded for his scholarly writings on medical history. James Francis Edward Keith, born 11 June 1696, died 14 October 1758, who was a Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal. As a Jacobite he took part in a failed attempt to restore the Stuart Monarchy to Britain, before joining the Spanish and Russian armies. William Keith, born 1669, died 18 November 1749, who served as lieutenant governor of the Colonies of Pennsylvania and Delaware in America, from 1717 to 1726. Gilbert Mair, born 23 May 1799, died in Whangarei, 16 July 1857, who was a sailor and a merchant trader who visited New Zealand for the first time when he was twenty, and lived there from 1824 till his death.

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