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On This Day: 1st of March
On this day in 1823:
William McQuhae
William McQuhae (1737-1823) died. McQuhae graduated MA from the University in 1856 and became a minister in Ayrshire. He was a tutor and friend of James Boswell and is immortalised in Robert Burns' poem The Twa Herds as " that curs'd rascal ca'd M'Quhae."
Son of David McQuhae and Margaret Laurie. Married (November 1, 1765) to Elizabeth Park (d. 1780). Married (June 3, 1782) to Margaret Laurie (d. 1824). He fathered at least 16 children with his wives. Sometime tutor of David and John Boswell. Educated at Edinburgh. Minister of St. Quivox, Ayrshire (1764-?) and sometime Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Author of Difficulties which attend the Practice of Religion no just Argument against it, a Sermon (1785).
His mother and second wife seems to have had identical names.
Life with James Boswell:
McQuhae had been a private tutor of JB's brothers John and David in the late 1750s, and until 1762-3 was one of JB's closest friends.
On this day in 1975:
Development of the Glasgow Outcome Scale
Bryan Jennett and Michael Bond publish their world changing paper about the Glasgow Outcome Scale in the Lancet titled "Assessment of outcome after severe brain damage. A practical scale". Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) has become the most widely used scale for assessing patient outcome after suffering a serious brain injury.
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1837
Adolphus Simpson was born.
On this day in 1904
Charles Fleming was born.
On this day in 1926
Bryan Jennett was born.
On this day in 1868
Francis Gilbert Geddes was born.
On this day in 1866
John Lithgow was born.
On this day in 1865
Ewen MacDonald MacGregor was born.
On this day in 1861
George Wilson was born.
On this day in 1881
John Reid Cameron was born.
On this day in 1881
William Holms Coats was born.
On this day in 1882
James Carrick Miller Fairlie was born.
On this day in 1884
Arnold Harris Gray was born.
On this day in 1886
Dugald McArthur was born.
On this day in 1876
Hugh McDougall was born.
On this day in 1882
John Millar was born.
On this day in 1880
Nora O'Sullivan was born.
On this day in 1883
Vera Dagmar Reis was born.
On this day in 1885
Alexander Scott was born.
On this day in 1877
William Scott was born.
On this day in 1918
James Hall Stevenson died.
On this day in 1877
William Stratton was born.
On this day in 1878
William Marshall Tait was born.
On this day in 1875
James Alexander Wortherspoon was born.
On this day in 1890
Sheng Zang Wang was born.
On this day in 1923
Andrew Matthew William Faulds was born.
On this day in 1892
Jagdish Datta Chaudhri was born.
On this day in 1891
SUnited Statesn Margaret Gardiner was born.
On this day in 1888
Jadubans Lall was born.
On this day in 1891
Ronald Maxwell Macandrew was born.
On this day in 1889
John McGhie was born.
On this day in 1890
Grace Ann Stewart was born.
On this day in 1878
Robert McMillan was born.
On this day in 1893
John Hugh Matheson was born.
On this day in 1895
Sheikh Mohammad Siddique was born.
On this day in 1879
Suzanne Helene Bidgrain was born.
On this day in 1857
John Robert Hume died.
On this day in 1895
Annie Barlow was born.
On this day in 1891
David McCulloch was born.