Grant, Lachlan, physician, Ballachulish, 1871-1945
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
14 volumes of press cuttings compiled by Dr Lachlan Grant concerning social conditions in the Highlands.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12187/1-14
Scope and Contents
Dr Lachlan Grant MD (1871-1945) was born in Renfrewshire, spent much of his youth in Argyll, and graduated from Edinburgh University in 1896. He took a Diploma in Public Health in 1911 and in 1921 became a Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. He was Medical Officer for Ballachulish and Kinlochleven, bacteriologist to Argyll County Council and consulting medical officer to British Aluminium, Kinlochleven. He came to note nationally as the founder of the Highland...
Dates:
1902-1993.
Printed material., 1935 and undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13898/21
Scope and Contents
A folder containing the following two works: (i) Proof copy, incomplete, early 20th-century, of Iain Mac Cormaig's novel entitled here 'Maolagan Mòr no an t-eilireach'. It was published as 'Maolagan Mòr: sean sgeul air I Choluim Chille, ed. by Malcolm Macfarlane (Glasgow: Alexander MacLaren & Sons, [n.d.]).(ii) Lachlan Grant, A new deal for the Highlands ([Oban, 1935]). - According to the postscript, this booklet was sent to Highland and Scottish...
Dates:
1935 and undated.