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Andrew Cunningham was a student at the Glasgow Mechanics' Institution from 1867 to 1868.
David Cunningham, known as Kenneth, was a student at Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow from 1968 to 1972. He was a member of the Student Representative Council and treasurer from 1971 to 1972.
John Crabbe Cunningham was born in Duke Street, Glasgow in 1927. At the age of 17, he became a member of the Creagh Dhu Mountaineering Club. He visited New Zealand, the Himalayas, Antarctica and Nepal rock climbing and spent many years working for the British Antarctic Survey. He was a student at Jordanhill College of Education from 1965 to 1967, studying a youth leaders' course.
Cunningham was killed in 1980, when a wave swept him to his death below the sea cliffs at Anglesey.
Joan Elizabeth Curran (née Strothers), born in Swansea, was a distinguished scientist who made a considerable contribution to Britain’s defence effort during the Second World War. She also worked to support mentally handicapped children, and was very active in the early years of the University of Strathclyde.
Joan worked as a research student in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge where she met Samuel Curran. They married in 1940. During the Second World War, she was instrumental in ‘Operation Windows’: a device to disrupt enemy radar. Joan Curran also worked on the Manhattan project along with Sir Samuel Curran.
In 1953 Lady Curran formed the Scottish Society for the Mentally Handicapped, the first meetings of which were in her own home.
She was also very active in University life, supporting her husband who became the first Principal of the University of Strathclyde in 1964. She took steps to involve women socially and educationally in the institution and founded the Strathclyde Women’s Group.
Lady Joan Curran was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters, recognising her work, from the University of Strathclyde in 1987.
Samuel Curran, internationally respected nuclear physicist and first principal of the University of Strathclyde, was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, his mother's home town, but spent his childhood and youth in Wishaw, Lanarkshire. After schooling at Wishaw High School, Curran graduated with first class honours in mathematics and natural philosophy from Glasgow University and joined the University Physics Department as a PhD student in 1934. He researched the diffraction of beta rays of radium and modified and reconstructed Geiger counters. In 1937, Curran moved to St John's College, Cambridge to continue his studies, and worked alongside his fellow student and future wife, Joan Strothers, in the Cavendish Laboratory. During World War II, they joined a small team developing the proximity fuse, which was highly effective in destroying enemy planes and V1 rockets, and radar installation. Curran was seconded in 1944 to the University of California in Berkeley to work on the separation of isotopes of uranium as part of the Manhattan Project (the development of the atomic bomb) and after a period on the staff of Glasgow University, he assisted with the development of a British hydrogen bomb at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in the 1950s. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1953. In 1959, he was invited to become Principal of the Royal College of Science and Technology and to lead the College to University status. He served as principal until his retirement in 1980. Curran was a scientific adviser to government and public bodies, and received many honorary degrees. He was knighted in 1970.
Peter Currie was a journeyman instrument maker. Following an apprenticeship with D. McGregor & Company, nautical instrument makers, he worked with Dobbie McInnes & Company, and Barr & Stroud, and subsequently with the Glasgow and South West Railway (later London, Midland and Scottish Railway). He retired in 1942 at the age of 65.
Ivor Cutler was born in 1923 into a third generation Jewish family beside Ibrox. He was evacuated to Annan in 1940 and then apprenticed to Rolls-Royce to assemble Spitfires. During the Second World War he also trained as a navigator with the RAF but was dismissed.
At the end of the Second World War, Cutler trained as a teacher at Jordanhill College of Education. His first teaching post was at AS Neill’s Summerhill School. He went to London and for 30 years (until 1980) he was a teacher with the Inner London Authority.
Cutler made appearances on various television and radio programme as a performer. He appeared on Radio 4’s 'Monday Night at Home' between 1959 and 1963. He also appeared as Buster Bloodvessel in the Beatles 1967 movie, Magical Mystery Tour. Cutler also published memories of his childhood,’ Life in a Scottish Sitting Room’ and ‘Glasgow Dreamer’.
The first and oldest touring club in the world, the Cyclists' Touring Club was founded in 1878 by Stanley Cotterell as the Bicycle Touring Club and was renamed the Cyclists' Touring Club in 1883.
The Club was established to encourage and facilitate bicycle touring, with initiatives such as reduced rates at hotels and inns. The winged wheels badge, adopted in 1886, can still be seen in various pubs throughout the UK. Other services included organising rallies, producing guides and maps and publishing an official monthly Gazette for its members.
In 1977 the Cyclists' Touring Club was recognised as a charity and has since continued promoting cycling.
The family photography firm of D & W Prophet was based in Dundee, where it was originally known as David Prophet & Sons (1880-1886). From 1884 to 1964 it was known as David & William Prophet, with studios at 59 Wellgate and 23 High Street, Dundee. The family also had a studio in Edinburgh from 1906-1910 and a studio in Glasgow from the 1920s to at least the 1950s. William Prophet died in 1932, and James Prophet [William's son?] died in 1970.
D. McGregor & Company was one of a number of companies in Glasgow making and repairing nautical instruments in the late 19th century. They were based in Clyde Place, Glasgow and also had premises in Greenock and Liverpool.