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William James Fleming MD – surgeon and medical researcher

July 8, 2020July 10, 2020 ~ Arlington Baths Club History Group ~ 1 Comment

William J. Fleming was a medical practitioner, surgeon and lecturer in physiology who published medical research, including experiments conducted on himself at the Arlington Baths.

Robert Peel Lamond – lawyer and Poor Law reformer

July 1, 2020July 10, 2020 ~ Arlington Baths Club History Group ~ 1 Comment

Robert Peel Lamond was a lawyer and legal author from a family of lawyers who were active in Glasgow city politics.

James S Higginbotham, calico printer, and Mary Higginbotham, nursing pioneer

June 30, 2020July 10, 2020 ~ Arlington Baths Club History Group ~ 1 Comment

James Samuel Higginbotham was involved in his family's successful calico printing business and his wife Mary set up an organisation of nurses to care for poor residents of Glasgow.

John Black Cowan – Surgeon and university professor

June 25, 2020July 10, 2020 ~ Arlington Baths Club History Group ~ 1 Comment

John Black Cowan was an eminent surgeon and a professor of medicine at Glasgow University with a family interest in public health.

Sebastian Hermann Schwabe – businessman and calico printer

June 22, 2020July 10, 2020 ~ Arlington Baths Club History Group ~ 13 Comments

Sebastian Hermann Schwabe was a businessman from a German Jewish family who had long been established in Glasgow and Lancashire.

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