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"Said to be peculiar and feeble-minded, a soft lump, a horrid nasty man. Retired."

Relatives in survey: wife 16.44, daughter 16.45

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'Admitted CRI, died, Senile dementia. Rate-aided. Had been a clerk, retired. Sister, died, also senile.'

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Album relating to the retirement in 1973 of former head of Social Work at the University of Edinburgh Margaret (Megan) Browne, containing notes from her coworkers, as well as an envelope with letters.

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Correspondence and related items, including letters from John Keith Benton, Hachiro Yuasa, Reinhold Niebuhr. Includes material relating to John Baillie's retiral, a visit to Hungary, student lists and documents relating to the establishment of closer links between the Church of Scotland, Church of England, Episcopal Church of Scotland and Presbyterian Church of England.

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Thomson announces his intention to retire from the Indian Medical Service and to seek employment in the new Department of Tropical Medicine in the University of Edinburgh. He goes on to describe his work experience in tropical medicine and states that he has spoken to Sir William Turner and Sir Thomas Fraser regarding a possible position within the University.

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives alone. She had worked as a typist but was made to leave when her employer got rid of everyone over 60. She had put her name down for a corporation flat as had heard some landladies wouldn't keep tenants on if they were not in employment. She was allocated an old age pensioner flat. INTVER thinks she is now terribly lonely and out of her depth finding herself alone in a strange environment, unemployed and having to look after her house and cook for herself for the first time in...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives with her husband in a ground floor flat in a small tenement block of six flats surrounded by semi-detached houses which INTVER thinks are mainly privately owned. They have no family and have lived in their house for 20 years. She was born in Leith and her husband was born in Ireland. Her husband was made to retire at 65yrs but would have liked to have stayed on. He felt embarrassed at being an able bodied man out in the street during the day. INTVEE had not worked since she...

Scope and Contents INTVEEs live on the top storey of a three storey tenement block in a three apartment flat. They have lived in their flat for three years, coming to live here when male INTVEE retired. They go out together a lot to visit friends and regularly go on cruises. He retired at 65 and still won't go back to the docks as it upsets him, he got fed up being at home all the time but is getting used to it. He reads the Reader's Digest. His wife has a more active social life mainly connected with church...

Content Description This file consists of: Framed and decorated retiral certificate for George G. Torkington signed by staff in the Geological Survey - Scottish Office. Signatures include Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Dr William Francis Porter McLintock, Dr Murray Macgregor and TH Whitehead; Photograph of geological map model of Ardnamurchan made by Torkington; Print out of photograph of...