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Thomas Smith sponsors St Andrews’ golf competition, 1873
St Andrews in Scotland is one of the world’s most famous golf courses. Its history also stretches back longer than any other. Mary Queen of Scots reputedly enjoyed a round or two on the links here in...
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Alfred Smith marries into Italian dynasty, 1873
In the same week that Thomas Smith [C11]was sponsoring a golf competition at St Andrews – as you can read elsewhere on this blog – his younger brother Alfred Smith [C10] was getting married on the...
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Logan Lee: a monument in Cathcart for a child who died in Galway
If there’s one thing that “Borrow’s Gypsies” were keen on, it was big gravestones. And in the days before family historians started roaming churchyards with a camera, one of these stones – unusually –...
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