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40 A Constant Benefactor
1. John Kirkaldy, the eldest, was the first of the brothers to enter the Open lists at St Andrews in 1882 and again at Prestwick in 1884. Hugh joined him in the field at St Andrews in 1885 and at Prestwick in 1887. All three brothers played in 1888 at St Andrews by which time his younger brothers were already eclipsing him.
2. David Herd went to Littlestow, Fred to Knebworth, Sandy ultimately to Fixby at Huddersfield and James and John to Chicago.
42 In Testimony
1. Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews, was the nephew of Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair. He was born in India in 1818 where his father was with the East India Company and at the age of two was sent home to St Andrews where he was educated at the grammar school and the University. He enjoyed a remarkable and distinguished career in science before entering politics where he became Post Master General, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons and a Cabinet Minister. He was an earnest supporter of Prince Albert’s proposal for the Great Exhibition of 1851 and for his work as chairman of the awards committee, for his services to Parliament as a Liberal MP and to science as a distinguished chemist, Queen Victoria rewarded him with a peerage. He was also a Lord-in-Waiting to Her Majesty.
2. The stationmaster’s house is now the Jigger Inn attached to the Old Course Hotel that occupies the site of the first St Andrews Railway Station.
44 The Evangelist and a Place of Pilgrimage
1. James Foulis (pronounced Fowls) was one of three men and a boy employed in the Tom Morris workshop in 1870. He was born in 1841 at St Andrews where he lived for the rest of his life and became an outstanding player in the Operatives, St Andrews and The Rose Golf Clubs. His brother Robert, born in 1843, was a cabinetmaker who turned his hand to club-making in Robert Forgan’s workshop sometime after 1871. James was a millwright by training who became a club-maker with Tom Morris soon after he acquired G.D. Brown’s premises at the Links in 1867. James was Tom’s first employee and the shop foreman for over 40 years.
2. Robert Forgan was three years younger than Tom. According to his obituary, he joined his uncle, Hugh Philp, in his club-making business in 1840 and inherited it as a one-man undertaking from him in 1856. When Robert died in 1900 he was employing 50 clubmakers as well as office and labouring staff.
Two of Robert Forgan’s sons, James and David, worked in banks in St Andrews before emigrating to America in the 1880s. Both enjoyed phenomenal success in American banking. James succeeded Mr Lyman Gage in the management of the First National Bank, Chicago, when Gage was appointed to President McKinley’s Cabinet in 1896. David, meanwhile, rose to become President of the Union National Bank, Chicago, in 1898. In May 1900, when both brothers were back in St Andrews on holiday, they planned an amalgamation of their respective banks and resolved to put a proposal before their directors. This plan was adopted and the banks combined, adopting the name of the larger partner, the First National Bank, and in doing so made it one of the most influential banking institutions in the US. James became President of the new unified bank and David assumed the role of Vice-President.
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Index
Aikman, Andrew Ref1, Ref2
Alexander,
Tom Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Watty Ref1, Ref2
Allan,
Jamie Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Johnny Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11
Matthew Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Amateur Championship Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Anderson,
Bryan Ref1
Da’ Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
David Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
James (Anstruther) Ref1
Jamie Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12, Ref13, Ref14, Ref15, Ref16, Ref17, Ref18, Ref19, Ref20, Ref21, Ref22, Ref23
Morris Ref1
Walter Ref1
Andrews, Bob (The Rook) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Asquith, H.H. Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Auchterlonie,
Laurie Ref1, Ref2
Willie Ref1, Ref2
Ayr Academy Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Ayr Race Meeting Ref1
Bain, Mr Ref1
Baird, Sir David Ref1
Balfour,
Arthur J. Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
James Ref1
Leslie (Balfour Melville) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Ball, John Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
balls, feather Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9
balls, gutta Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Bell, Revd Dr Andrew Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Belshes, John Murray Ref1
Benn, Arthur Shirley Ref1
Bennett, Mr Ref1, Ref2
Bethune, Major Robert Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10
Bird, Dr Ref1
Blackheath see Royal
Blackheath
Boothby,
Major Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Mrs Ref1
Boyd, Revd A.K.H. Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Braid, James Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
British Linen Bank Ref1
Broughton, Captain Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Brown, George Daniel Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Bruce,
Catherine Ref1, Ref2
family Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
George Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12
Jean (mother) Ref1, Ref2
Bruce Embankment Ref1
Buist, Revd Dr George Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Burn,
Captain Willie Ref1, Ref2
D. L. Ref1
Burns,
Jack Ref1, Ref2
Revd Thomas Ref1
caddies Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12, Ref13, Ref14, Ref15, Ref16, Ref17, Ref18, Ref19, Ref20, Ref21, Ref22, Ref23, Ref24, Ref25, Ref26, Ref27, Ref28, Ref29, Ref30, Ref31, Ref32, Ref33, Ref34, Ref35, Ref36, Ref37, Ref38, Ref39, Ref40, Ref41
Campbell, of Saddell Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Carnegie,
Andrew Ref1
George Fullerton Ref1, Ref2
Hon. Charles Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Carnoustie Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12, Ref13, Ref14, Ref15
Cathcart,
Robert Ref1, Ref2
Sir Reginald Ref1
census (1841) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10
Challenge Belt Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12
Challenge Belt Competition see Open Championship
Chambers,
Robert Ref1Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12
Robert, Jnr Ref1
Chambers Edinburgh Journal Ref1, Ref2
Cheape family Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12
Child, Richard Bartholomew Ref1, Ref2
Claret Jug Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Clark, Robert Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
Cockburn, Lord Ref1, Ref2
Colville, James Ref1
Connacher, Charles Ref1
Cosgrove, Bob Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Course improvements, St Andrews Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11
Crawford, Willie Ref1
Cupar Golf Club Ref1
Curriehill, Lord Ref1, Ref2
Dalhousie, Earl of Ref1, Ref2
Darien, Georgia Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11
