Gerard Carruthers is Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and an Honorary Fellow of the World Burns Federation, of the English Association and of the
Commander Ian Lamb Royal Navy Retired On leaving School in 1964 Ian joined Eastern Electricity (EE) as a Student Apprentice. He successfully negotiated his studies and then worked for EE as a planning engineer. In 1970 he volunteered and was
Liam Devlin is a former teacher, a long career at St Aloysius College being sandwiched between periods working for the Adult and Continuing Education Departments of Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities for which he taught Music. He was appointed Linlithgow Pursuivant Extraordinary in 2024,
Eric was born in Coatbridge during the Second World War. He won a scholarship to Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth at sixteen, was streamed as an Engineer Officer, volunteered for submarines and thirty-seven years later retired as Commodore in charge
Alexander Lukas Bieri started working for Roche Group Holdings in 1994 and first was tasked with the management of market introductions of biopharmaceuticals. Pursuing his interest in public relations and information management, he became acquainted to the company’s unique heritage
Gordon Cree was born in Ayrshire and was classically trained in piano and singing at the RCS. In a lengthy career, he has garnered a formidable reputation as a pianist, singer, conductor, composer, arranger-orchestrator and cabaret artiste. Having started his
Eoghan MacGuire is Lead Editor of the investigative outlet, Bellingcat, and a recent John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in California. Eoghan leads a team of editors and social media producers at Bellingcat while also working with dozens of
Emma Thomson is clinical professor of infectious diseases at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (and professor of emerging viral infections at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). She trained in medicine in Glasgow, specialised in
The new 2024-25 session of Glasgow Kelvin Probus Club will soon begin. We have a full and varied program of talks, with a good variety of speakers. I am certainly looking forward to our meetings again. I hope, that even
2023- 2024 Sep 12 : Adam Smith – Graeme Roy (Biog) Sep 26 : My love affair with the River Clyde – George Fleming (Biog) Oct 10 : Lord Reith – Hero or Hypocrite – Peter
