John Black Cowan was an eminent surgeon and a professor of medicine at Glasgow University with a family interest in public health.
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Archibald Colville – cotton merchant
Archibald Colville worked all his life with one of the biggest cotton spinning companies in Glasgow.
Ellinor Agnes Christison: the domestic science student who got an MBE
Ellinor Agnes Christison trained and worked in domestic science; a profession that took her to North Africa and Italy in the Second World War.
Robert Colin Christison: rugby captain, reader and “the beau-ideal of a soldier”
Robert Colin Christison was known as ‘Bertie’. An engineer from a family of engineers, was an athlete, interested in books and reading, and was described as “universally popular”.
Algernon Burton Cook: Swimming star and flying ace
Algernon Burton Cook was a school sports star considered to be one of the best swimmers in Scotland, who became a motor cyclist and aeroplane pilot in the First World War.
Arlington Baths Club History Group 