Smith, Frederick, 1805-1879, entomologist
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Smith, Frederick, 1805-1879, entomologist
Smith, Eleanor Elizabeth, 1822-1896, educational activist
Smith, Edwin George Herbert, 1912-1971, Photographer and Artist.
Smith, Dave, 1942-, poet, writer, critic, editor, and educator
Dave Smith is an American poet, writer, critic, editor, and educator.
Smith, Charles Roach, 1807-1890, antiquary
Smart, Christopher, 1722-1771, Poet
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Slessor, Charles George Malcom, 1926-2007, explorer, scientist and author
Born in Aberdeen in 1927, Malcom Slessor studied chemical engineering at the University of Edinburgh. After graduating he went on to have a career as an academic and also worked in the private sector.
With a keen interest in mountaineering and exploration Slessor participated in the ground-breaking British North Greenland Expedition from 1952 to 1953 as an assistant physicist and surveyor. He later co-led an expedition to the Pamirs region of Central Asia, chronicling the experience in a book he authored. As well as writing many papers in a professional capacity he also wrote about experiences of mountaineering and Scotland. Slessor died from a suspected heart attack while walking in the Scottish Highlands in 2007.
Skipsey, Joseph, 1832-1903, poet
Skene, William Forbes, 1809-1892, lawyer, historian, antiquary