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Isobel Seymour found this old Royal Bank of Scotland, Maybole Branch Cheque in her personal archives and thought it appropriate to post here with the celebration of the bank's 150 anniversary. She wonders if any of our site visitors know who E. Cathcart might be. |
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We may have found E Cathcart! John McCulloch send us these details.
Edward
Cathcart born in Dailly in 1848 may have been the signatory to the
Royal Bank of Scotland cheque uncovered by Isobel Seymour. Edward
died in Colinton Edinburgh in 1886. He was married to Margaret
Miller. The cause of death was congestion of the brain. “Merchant”
was his occupation.
Edward was the son of Robert Moore
Cathcart and Catherine Park Proven who married in Girvan in 1842.
Robert Moore Cathcart died before 1851. He was a farmer and land
steward in Dailly. His wife’s father was James Provan, farmer at
Roan, Dailly. James Provan was married to Catherine Johnstone of
Dailly.
Edward is described as a wine merchant on the birth certificate of his son Edward Provan Cathcart. The Cathcart chair of Biochemistry at Glasgow University is name for Edward Provan Cathcart. Biography of Edward Provan Cathcart
Born in Ayr, Cathcart graduated MB, ChB from the University in 1900 and pursued his studies in Bacteriology and Chemical Pathology in Germany. He worked in the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine from 1902 to 1905, before returning to the University to the new post of Grieve Lecturer. He had received the degree of MD from the University in 1904, with the award of a Bellahouston Gold Medal. In 1913 Cathcart married a fellow-physiologist, Gertrude D Bostock. She had graduated in 1913 and was only the third female science graduate in the University's history. See the complete article at http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0035&type=P |
Edward
Provan Cathcart (1877-1954) was Grieve Lecturer in Physiological
Chemistry from 1905 to 1915; Professor of Physiological Chemistry
from 1919 to 1929, and Professor of Physiology from 1929 until 1947.
The Cathcart Chair of Biochemistry is named for him.