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Adamson, Janet Laurel n. Johnston

Milestones Birth: May 09 1924 – Kilmarnock Death: April 15 1962 – Bromley Brief Profile Jennie Johnston was born in Kilmarnock on 9th May 1882. She followed her husband William (Billy) Adamson to the north of England in search of work. An activist in the trade union movement and the Labour Party, he had […]

Arthurson, Iain Hayden

Milestones Birth: April 19 1939 – Edinburgh Death: October 30 2020 – Edinburgh Brief Profile Born and brought up up in Edinburgh, Hayden was educated at George Watson’s College following which, in 1956, he entered the Medical School at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1962. Following pre-Registration training in Medicine and Surgery in […]

Begbie, Catherine

Milestones Birth: January 26 1901 – Glasgow Marriage: October 24 1946 – Glasgow to John Edward Begbie Death: December 19 2001 – Oban Brief Profile Catherine Hoey was born in Glasgow on 26th January 1901. Katie was the eldest child of Owen Hoey and Catherine McInnes. The family settled in Oban where her father […]

Blackwood, Margaret

Milestones Birth: October 01 1924 – Dundee Death: January 18 1994 – Edinburgh Brief Profile Margaret Blackwood was a warrior in a wheelchair. Her successful campaigning for a national disability income was a huge achievement on the road to helping people with disabilities lead independent lives. Diagnosed with muscular dystrophy as a schoolgirl in […]

Crawford, Marion

Milestones Birth: June 05 1909 – Kilmaurs Death: February 11 1988 – Milltimber Brief Profile Marion Crawford grew up in Dunfermline and trained as a teacher at Moray House College. After graduation in 1931, she obtained work locally as a governess with titled families and thus met the Duke and Duchess of York who […]

Daviot, Gordon

Milestones Death: February 13 1952 – Inverness Brief Profile For more information please see: Elizabeth MacKintosh

Dickson Wright, Clarissa Theresa

Milestones Birth: June 14 1947 – London Death: June 15 2014 – Edinburgh Brief Profile Clarissa Dickson Wright is remembered as a celebrity TV chef with a larger-than-life personality. After her convent school education, she studied law, and at 21 became the youngest barrister in England. Her Australian mother, Molly Bath, left her a […]

Eardly, Joan

Milestones Birth: May 18 1921 – Warnham, Sussex Death: August 16 1963 – Killearn Brief Profile Following the death by suicide of her father who had been gassed in the World War I the family moved to London where Joan’s talent was spotted by her art teacher. She entered Glasgow School of Art in […]

Foxton, Eileen Elizabeth

Milestones Birth: May 01 1933 – Buxton Marriage: September 25 1954 – Buxton to Ronald Peter Foxton Death: June 23 2020 – Stockport Brief Profile Eileen Elizabeth Thompson was born in Buxton, Derbyshire on 1st May 1933. She attended Hardwick Square School and Silverlands Girls School, Buxton. Following school, her first job was at a […]

Gilbertson, Reginald Wemyss Dyke

Milestones Birth: April 30 1894 – Saltburn by the Sea Marriage: September 26 1920 – Edinburgh to Violet Catherine McIntosh Death: June 10 1977 – Inverness Brief Profile Reginald Gilbertson was born in the last years of the 19th century. In the course of a long life he experienced two world wars and technological […]

Henderson, James

Milestones Birth: January 04 1908 – North Berwick Marriage: July 15 1937 – Dumfries to Nan Fergusson Death: December 22 2007 – Kelso Brief Profile James Henderson was the third of the four children of James Henderson and Mary Stewart of North Berwick. A good Leaving Certificate enabled him to secure a place in […]

Inglis, Elsie Maude

Milestones Birth: August 16 1864 – India Death: November 26 1917 – Newcastle Brief Profile Elsie was a medical pioneer and a suffragist who believed in equality of opportunity in politics and education. She attended the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women from 1886. After further study in Glasgow and experience in hospitals in […]

Jamieson, Christina

Milestones Birth: June 30 1864 – Sandness, Shetland Death: March 23 1942 – Nelson, New Zealand Brief Profile Christina was a writer and a suffragist who was very aware of the hard lives led by Shetland women. Unlike her brothers, she was expected to stay at home and worked as a pupil teacher in […]

Jex-Blake, Sophia Louise

Milestones Birth: January 21 1840 – Hastings Death: January 07 1912 – Sussex Brief Profile Sophia Louise Jex-Blake was born in Hastings on 21st January 1840. She was described as “brilliant, hot tempered and resourceful” and was a tireless campaigner for women’s education, most particularly for medical education. She challenged the academic establishment at […]

Kay, Christina

Milestones Birth: June 01 1878 – Edinburgh Death: May 22 1951 – Midhope Brief Profile Christina attended James Gillespie’s School for Girls from age five until she trained as a teacher, returning to spend her career there. An inspirational teacher she numbered one Muriel Camberg amongst her pupils. Her lessons and concerns for ‘her girls’ […]

Lee, Jennie

Milestones Birth: November 03 1904 – Lochgelly Marriage: October 24 1934 to Aneurin Bevan Death: August 06 1988 – London Brief Profile Janet (Jennie) Lee was born in Lochgelly, daughter of a coal miner. She attended Beath Secondary School where she was dux and was funded to study in The University of Edinburgh by […]

Livingston, Peggy

MilestonesBirth: June 02 1920 – EdinburghDeath: February 26 2025 – Edinburgh Brief ProfileNone

MacGillivray, James Ian MacKenzie

Milestones Birth: January 09 1929 – Kirkcaldy Death: November 25 2016 – Broadford Brief Profile None . Full Obituary follows. Obituary James Ian MacKenzie MacGillivray was born in Kirkcaldy, where his father, Ian MacGillivray, was a local government education officer. In 1937 the family moved to Dumfries when his father was appointed Director of […]

MacKintosh, Elizabeth

Milestones Birth: July 25 1896 – Inverness Death: February 13 1952 – Inverness Brief Profile Elizabeth MacKintosh was born in Inverness on 25th July 1896. Beth was the oldest of the three daughters of Josephine Horne and Colin MacKintosh. She lived several ‘lives’: best known as Golden Age Crime Fiction writer ‘Josephine Tey’, she […]

Mackintosh, John Pitcairn

Milestones Birth: August 24 1929 – India Death: July 30 1978 – Edinburgh Brief Profile John Pitcairn Mackintosh was an unlikely combination of Labour politician, author and academic. On his parents return to Scotland from India where he was born, John attended Melville College, then the Universities of Edinburgh, Oxford, and Princeton. After early […]

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Profiles

A word about our terminology.

Rather than ‘the deceased’ or ‘the loved one,’ we’ve chosen to use ‘the Subject’ to describe the person whose memory is registered.

You are our ‘Customer.’ If you submit an Appreciation you will be a Contributor.

We refer to anything published on the website as an ‘Entry.’

Adding entries is ‘enhancing the profile’;

the sum total of the entries for a subject is their ‘Profile’ in the Milestones Memories Register.

It is in their Profiles that loved ones are appreciated and remembered whether they were larger than life or unassuming souls. There too the lives of forebears may be recorded and celebrated. And it is in their Profiles that those rightly held in high regard in their time but now feared forgotten may be called back to mind.

We believe that it is through the display of accurate, considered, quality material in Profiles that we will build up Milestones’ reputation as a unique resource for family and general research in Scotland.

All Profiles open with the Brief Profile created by us using the milestones, the short life summary and any photograph received from you, adding the invitation to submit appreciations. Most customers enhance the Brief Profile in due course with tributes in the form of eulogies, obituaries and appreciations. A timeline is encouraged – with more photographs. You may wish to add the death notice, abstracts from the Order of Service, an Acknowledgement. Under the ENHANCING title in the main menu you’ll find more detail including the Enhancing the Profile form, used for all additional entries after registration. The customised Invitation and a Postscript can add appreciably to the eventual value of any Profile for future research.