Famous Residents in Helensburgh and Lomond District
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Henry Bell 1767-1830, Innovator and Businessman Henry Bell first came to Helensburgh in 1806 and was to spend the rest of his life here. He was a pioneer of place marketing and “the first person to place a practical steamship on British waters”. A “little Clyde experiment” that was “to pioneer the way to an astonishing
John Logie Baird is widely credited as being the first person in the world to demonstrate a working television. Born and educated in Helensburgh (Larchfield School), Baird enrolled at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College to study engineering. This course combined both formal tuition and placements as an apprentice in various firms and
Andrew Bonar Law MP 1858-1923, Prime Minister Born in 1858 in New Brunswick, Canada, Andrew was the youngest son of Eliza Ann Kidston whose father, William, had emigrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia, from Glasgow in 1810. On the death of his mother in 1860, her sister Janet Kidston moved to New Brunswick to keep house
Lady Helen Sutherland 1717–1791 (born Helen Gordon), was the daughter of William Gordon Sutherland, Lord Strathnaver and Catherine Morrison. She was the granddaughter of the 16th Earl of Sutherland. In April 1740 she married Sir James Colquhoun, 1st Baronet of Luss, with whom she had 8 children. Sir James Colquhoun had bought the land the
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