{"id":11,"date":"2014-04-25T10:31:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T09:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2014-07-14T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T15:02:07","slug":"local-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"Local History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"color: #000000;\" align=\"CENTER\"><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"color: #444444;\">Articles available in this section:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/?page_id=168\">Reminisences of Kincardine<\/a>\u00a0by Charles Brown F.S.A., Scot<\/li>\n<li>Register of Parliamentary Voters for the Parish of Tulliallan:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/?page_id=160\">1832<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Additional Parliamentary Voters for the Parish of Tulliallan:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/?page_id=154\">1833 &#8211; 1840<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Additional Parliamentary Voters for the Parish of Tulliallan:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/?page_id=137\">1841 &#8211; 1850<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Extract From The Historic Scenes In Perthshire:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/?page_id=132\">Tulliallan<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Extract From Fife: Pictorial &amp; Historical:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/?page_id=128\">Tulliallan Parish<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Inventory Of Monuments In Fife:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/?page_id=118\">Tulliallan<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Pictorial Fife:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/?page_id=105\">Tulliallan Parish<\/a>\u00a0by A.H.Millar FSA Scot.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wonders Of World Engineering: a\u00a01937 article about building\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/?page_id=86\">Kincardine Bridge<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000;\" \/>\n<h3>People:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>A number of people either born in Kincardine or having moved in to the town later in life made a significant impact on world history.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<dl>\n<dd>Probably the most widely known person with an association to Kincardine is James Dewar, the son of a local Inn Keeper who went on to become one of the most important chemists of his generation and, in the process invented one of the most useful devices too &#8211; the vacuum flask, better known as the Thermos. But there are a number of other people such as Admiral Lord Keith and Sir James Wylie who, while less well known than Dewar, had just as profound an influence in their own areas of specialty.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<dl><\/dl>\n<dl>\n<dd>Please select a person for more information:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/?page_id=191\">Sir James Dewar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/?page_id=182\">Admiral Lord Keith<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The text about Sir James Dewar is taken from Rev William Meiklejohn\u2019s excellent\u00a0<b>Four Lads O\u2019 Pairts<\/b>\u00a0book which is now available to\u00a0purchase\u00a0as a <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1nnYtvr\" target=\"_blank\">print book<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1rlnHjq\" target=\"_blank\">digital\u00a0ebook<\/a>. It presents comprehensive biographies of four remarkable people born in Kincardine:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<li><b>Sir James Wylie (1768 \u2013 1854)<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; surgeon to the three Czars of Russia, organiser of the Russian Army\u2019s medical service, and founder of the Medical Colleges of Moscow and St Petersburgh.<\/li>\n<li><b>Sir James Dewar (1842 \u2013 1923)<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; President of the Chemical Society and Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution (a post held previously by Michael Faraday). He was the first person to liquify oxygen and inventor of the Dewar flask, later commercialised by Thermos as the Thermos Flask.<\/li>\n<li><b>Robert Maule J.P. (1832 \u2013 1901)<\/b>\u00a0and his son\u00a0<b>Sir Robert (1852 \u2013 1931)<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; successful entrepreneurs who established and ran \u2018Maules\u2019, one of the most successful early department stores on Edinburgh\u2019s famous Princes Street. Today their Edinburgh sotre is home to House of Fraser.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">As well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1nnYtvr\" target=\"_blank\">print version<\/a>, the book is currently available for Kindle e-readers\u00a0<a style=\"color: #9f9f9f;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00ILXXZUU\">directly from Amazon<\/a>, or in\u00a0other formats such as PDF <a style=\"color: #9f9f9f;\" href=\"https:\/\/leanpub.com\/fourladsopairts\">via the Leanpub.com online bookstore<\/a>\u00a0and 100% of profits from the sale of the book go to help fund the work Kincardine Local History Group does.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The\u00a0<a style=\"color: #9f9f9f;\" href=\"https:\/\/leanpub.com\/fourladsopairts\">Leanpub.com bookstore<\/a>\u00a0allows you to choose\u00a0the purchase price you want, so it\u2019s a great way of making a donation if any of\u00a0the information on our website has proven useful and you&#8217;d like to say thanks. By purchasing it you will be directly supporting the preservation of Kincardine\u2019s local history for the people in the town and future generations, as well as those who trace their family roots back to Kincardine. Thanks in advance\u00a0for all your support!<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">For more information about any of the topics contained in this web page please contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@kincardinehistory.co.uk\">Kincardine Local History Group<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Articles available in this section: Reminisences of Kincardine\u00a0by Charles Brown F.S.A., Scot Register of Parliamentary Voters for the Parish of Tulliallan:\u00a01832 Additional Parliamentary Voters for the Parish of Tulliallan:\u00a01833 &#8211; 1840 Additional Parliamentary Voters for the Parish of Tulliallan:\u00a01841 &#8211; 1850 Extract From The Historic Scenes In Perthshire:\u00a0Tulliallan Extract From Fife: Pictorial &amp; Historical:\u00a0Tulliallan Parish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kincardinehistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}