Bob Hopkins
Forgotten Achiever
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Lady Susan Grant Suttie was an important figure of Prestonpans life and was certainly responsible for preserving the Grant Suttie Dynasty when it could have been easily destroyed. Unfortunately her achievements occurred when there was a Victorian propensity to ignore female accomplishments and there is no biographical record of what she did.
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The Lepers and the Balm Well
The original name of Liberton – a village some three miles from Edinburgh centre – may well have been Lepertown, or the town of lepers because, when leprosy was prevalent during the Scottish Middle Ages, the unfortunates who suffered that terrible disease were confined to the then village and absolutely forbidden to approach the City of Edinburgh.
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The Legacy of Doctor Knox
The surname Knox is, in a Scottish context, invariably linked to the Calvinist reformer John who, by some, is credited with the favourable enhancement of souls. However, some two centuries after the reformer’s death, another Knox, Robert, was certainly of more physical benefit to the population of Scotland – and indeed internationally.
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