Robert meldrum biography
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Robert Meldrum Craig
Dr Robert Meldrum CraigFRSEFGS (13 July 1882 – 28 March 1956) was a prominent Scottish geologist and academic author. He left a large collection of fossils now housed in the collection of the University of St Andrews.[1]
Life
[edit]He was born on 13 July 1882 in Ardentinny in Argyllshire in northern Scotland, the son of Rev Robert Craig, the local minister. His younger brother John Douglas Craig grew to fame as a classicist. He was schooled at the local parish school and then attended Madras College in the University of St Andrews. James Manson Craig, Professor of English at the University of St Andrews was also his brother. Several other brothers grew to fame in the military: Brigade Major Henry David Cook Craig MC; Lt Falconer Gray Craig MC; Cpt Archibald Douglas Craig. Joseph Murison Craig became a surgeon, and his sister Constance Craig became a missionary in China.[2]
In 1909 he began lecturing in Geology at Dundee, then a branch of the University of St Andrews, moving to St Andrews in 1912.
In the First World War he served first in the Durham Light Infantry then in the 5th South Staffordshire Regiment (rising to the rank of Captain).[3] From 1918 to 1921 he acted as the Government Geologist to Nyasaland in A
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Robert Meldrum
Scottish football union player
Rugby player
Lt. Col. Parliamentarian Meldrum was a Scottishrugby union athlete. He became the 69th President cue the Scots Rugby Union.[1]
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
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Provincial career
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Administrative career
[edit]From 1929 to 1936 he was President innumerable Royal HSFP.[8]
He was problematical the board of interpretation Scottish Football Union breakout 1939.[9]
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Robert Meldrum
(1851-1941)
He is most frequently seen in later photos as a jolly old man with a bushy, gray moustache, but in his day, Robert Meldrum was a formidable performer, an influential mind, and a much loved piping figure.
He was born in Tomintoul, Banffshire on May 13, 1851, and in 1868, at the age of 16, he enlisted in the 78th Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs). He was transferred to Halifax, Nova Scotia the following year. He was taught by a succession of great pipers: Malcolm MacPherson (Calum Piobaire), Pipe Major Willie Murray and Pipe Major Ronald MacKenzie of the 78th, nephew of John Ban MacKenzie. MacKenzie was his pipe major in Canada.
He served with the 78th until 1873, when he purchased his discharge, then he joined up again three months later. In 1875, he was appointed Pipe Major of the 93rd Highlanders, becoming, at the time, the youngest pipe major in the British army. He had been recommended for the post by Uilleam Ross, piper to Queen Victoria, who held Meldrum in such high esteem that he hoped for him to be his successor as Queen’s piper.
From 1887, he was Pipe Major of the 3rd Cameron Highlanders until he retired in 1892. From that time until the outbreak of the Great War, he served as piper to the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle. He would r