- published: 01 Jun 2012
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Alec Monteath (22 May 1941 in Perthshire) was an announcer for Scottish Television from 1964 - 1969 and an announcer on BBC Scotland. Alec was also an actor who played Dougal Lachlan in STV's Take the High Road from 1980 until 1992. His son, David Monteath was an actor on Coronation Street.
Sir Alexander Kirkland "Alec" Cairncross KCMG FBA FRSE (11 February 1911 – 21 October 1998) was a British economist. He was the brother of the spy John Cairncross and father of journalist Frances Cairncross and public health engineer and epidemiologist Sandy Cairncross.
He was born in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, the seventh of eight children of an ironmonger, and went to Hamilton Academy, then won a scholarship to Glasgow University, where he specialised in economics. He then went to Trinity College, Cambridge.
After taking a first in the Economic Tripos, he became a lecturer in economics, under the considerable influence of John Maynard Keynes (author of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money and one of the leading lights of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, which saw the founding of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund).
Cairncross married Mary Frances Glynn in 1943; the couple had five children, two daughters and three sons.
During World War II, most of his work was in the Ministry of Aircraft Production, where he rose to become Director of Programmes. In 1946 he served briefly on the staff of The Economist, and subsequently became adviser to the Board of Trade. He was seconded to be the economic adviser to the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation in Paris in 1949. and he left to become Professor of Applied Economics at his old university, Glasgow, in 1951.
(John) Monteath Robertson (1900-1989) was a graduate of the University who was Gardiner Professor of Chemistry, 1942 to 1970, and Director of Laboratories from 1955. In 1989 his widow opened the JM Robertson Protein Crystallography Laboratory in the Chemistry Department. Born on a farm near Auchterarder, Robertson matriculated to study at the University in 1919 and graduated BSc (1923), MA (1925), PhD (1926) and DSc (1933). He worked at the Royal Institution from 1926 to 1928 and spent two years in the USA on a Commonwealth Fellow Scholarship before returning to the RI. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at the University of Sheffield in 1939. After the Second World War, during which he was employed as a scientific advisor to the RAF, Robertson was a key figure in the...
Developing and applying multi-disciplinary social and economic research Alec Cairncross and Donald Robertson used their expertise and vision to create an multi-disciplinary academic department which led the way in applied socio-economic research, especially in the field of urban and regional planning. Donald James Robertson (1926-1970) was Professor of Applied Economics and Head of the Department of Social and Economic Research from 1961 until he was appointed to the Chair of Industrial Relations and made a Principal's Assessor in 1969. Born in Glasgow, Robertson's studies at the University were disrupted by the Second World War (he served as a First Lieutenant on minesweepers from 1945 to 1947) but he graduated MA in 1949. He became a lecturer at the University, first in Social and Econ...
Inspired by Latin & hip-hop beats. This '-scape' series was inspired by Uri Caine's Goldberg Variations. The music video series is inspired by Lana Del Rey.
Theres a real lack of video around of Kelly Monteith - so here are just a few minutes from a one man show he did in Londons westend in the mid 1980's. Enjoy!
Check out Midnight Kitchen on Facebook, Myspace and Soundcloud. Behind the scenes: Midnight Kitchen 2010. Line up: Jo Little, Moulder, Glenn Brown, Dan Monteath, Glen Kellett. Also starring: Jordan, Patrick, Vini Mac, Ben, and many more. Footage was taken by Jo Little, Verity Kerr and Jen Marsh. This film was edited by Daniel Monteath.
Tuesday, 4th September 2012.
High contrast? Deep shadows? How does one make one look like a Caravaggio? This wee study explores this concept. I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)