Tour Scotland 4K Spring travel video, with Scottish bagpipes music, of a road trip drive through Wormit on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Newport on Tay, North East Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. Major expansion of the village took place in the nineteenth century, and this increase was triggered initially by the development of the ferry service between Newport and Dundee. George Ranken Tudhope was born on 7 July 1893 in Newport-on-Tay in Fife the son of George Tudhope. He was educated at the High School of Dundee. He studied Medicine at the University of St Andrews graduating MB ChB in 1918. From 1919 to 1955 he taught Pathology at University College, Dundee, then a constituent college of St Andrews. In 1922 he married Elizabeth Florence McCombe, who dies in 1946. In 1949 he married Christian Johnston Bissett. From his first marriage he was father to his namesake George Ranken Tudhope, born 1924, died 1998, who also had an eminent career as a doctor. George Ranken Tudhope was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1947. His proposers were Robert Campbell Garry, Edward Thomas Copson, Robert Percival Cook and Alexander David Peacock. He was President of the Forfarshire Medical Association from 1964 to 1955. 1954/55. He died suddenly in Dundee on 13 December 1955 aged 62. Wormit is a village on the south shore of the Firth of Tay, Its location at the southern end of the Tay Rail Bridge has led to it becoming a commuter suburb of Dundee. Wormit claims to be the first Scottish village to have installed electricity. During the Second World War, King Haakon VII of Norway visited a house in Wormit used as a base by officers of the Norwegian Army. Richard Gadd was born, and brought up in the village of Wormit, he s a Scottish actor, comedian, and writer, best known for creating and starring in the 2024 Netflix drama series Baby Reindeer. The name is believed to derive from the plant wormwood, known as wormit in Old English, which was historically used as a medicinal tonic. Before its 19th century expansion, the area consisted primarily of the Wormit Farm. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip. The date for astronomical spring is Sunday 20th March, ending on Tuesday 21st June
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