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Todd was a member of the branch committee of the 7/162 Glasgow Insulation Workers branch of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU). In the 1960s, he began to compile information on disability and death from asbestos exposure among local insulation engineers. In 1971 he himself was diagnosed with asbestosis after working for nearly 20 years as a lagger. Todd frequently featured in news coverage of the period on how asbestos affected workers in the industry. During the 1970s he campaigned for better protection for workers, contacting union representatives, occupational health & safety experts, politicians, anti-asbestos activists and the media.

Born in Walsall in 1924, Francis Tombs worked as a St John Ambulance first aider during the Second World War. In 1946 he worked as an electrical engineer with the General Electric Company (GEC). He joined the South of Scotland Electricity Board (SSEB) in 1969 as Director of Engineering and was later promoted to Deputy Chair and, in 1974, Chair. In 1977, he was invited to head the Electricity Council, the industry’s supervisory body, and held the post for three and a half years. Lord Tombs became chair of the Weir Group in the early 1980s and took over as Chair of Rolls-Royce in 1985, having been a board member for three years.

Lord Tombs was knighted in 1978 and became a life peer in 1990, taking his title from a Warwickshire village. He sat as a Crossbench peer until his retirement in 2015 and was a member of the Lords’ Science and Technology and Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee; he also chaired a Select Committee on sustainable development.

He served as President of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, now the Institution of Engineering and Technology, in 1981 and was a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Lord Tombs was the University of Strathclyde’s second Chancellor and held the post from 1991 to 1997.

Helen Tooker was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, in the United States of America. Having studied art with a local painter in her teenage years, she then trained for a year at the Boston Museum School of Art before marrying and starting a family. Following her husband's death during the Great Depression, Helen supported her five children by working as a professional artist. Her work embraced many media, including sign painting and billboards, sculpture, calligraphy and fine portraiture. From 1947 until her death in 1998, she lived in Florida.

Helen Tooker had a lifelong interest in family history. Around 1955, she began working on a series of 23 richly illustrated charts incorporating the genealogical information she had collected over the years. These charts purportedly trace the ancestry of Helen’s parents, Emily White Perkins and Harry Landon Tooker, back into early English, Irish and Scottish history.

Irish poet, dramatist, producer.

The Turing Institute was established in 1983 as a not-for-profit company and named in honour of the late Alan M. Turing, the mathematician and logician. It was dedicated to providing an environment for research, teaching and development in the field of applied artificial intelligence accessible to both industrial clients and academic researchers. The Institute's research staff worked closely with different departments of the University of Strathclyde.

The Institute closed in the early 1990s.