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Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs or Spiers FRSE (1797–1847) was a 19th-century Scottish advocate and prison reformer. In later life he is largely referred to simply as Graham Speirs. He held the offices of Sheriff of Elgin and Moray from 1835 to 1840 and subsequently was Sheriff of Midlothian from 1840 until his death in
Nov 28, 2020 · Graham Hamilton Speirs was born in Glasgow. At the age of 12 he and his sister were evacuated to Girvan. “These were grim days of war but I have nothing but happy memories of the time I spent there,” he recalled in a letter to the local newspaper later in his adult life.
Scottish Advocate and Prison Reformer. Born Robert Cunningham Graham, he studied law and qualified as an advocate in 1820. In 1835 he became Sheriff of Elgin and in 1840 he became Sheriff of Edinburgh and remained in that role until death at the age of 50. In 1841 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of...
Ronald Charles Speirs was born on 20 th April, 1920 in the Scottish city of Edinburgh. 1 He was the youngest of five children for parents Robert Craig Speirs, Jr and Martha Agnes (McNeil) Speirs, 2 but his stay in Scotland was to be short. Ronald’s parents
Jun 15, 2018 · STOCKBROKER brothers Graham and Andrew Waddell, whose grandfather founded venerable Speirs & Jeffrey, look to have realised nearly £35 million from the sale of the Glasgow -based company to...
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Nov 29, 2020 · Died: November 17 2020 in Haddington, aged, 93. Graham Speirs was appointed the first chief official of the ‘umbrella’ body set up to represent the interests of the new regional, district and...
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Biography. Frances Laura Speirs was born on 26 June 1800 in Elderslie, Renfrewshire, her father, Archibald, was 42, and her mother, Margaret, was 27. She married Robert Cunningham Cunninghame Graham on 24 June 1824 in Renfrew, Renfrewshire. They had nine children in 19 years.
