Item T-MIN/39 - The Empire Calls: A Patriotic Song.

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GB 249 T-MIN/39

Title

The Empire Calls: A Patriotic Song.

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  • c. 1914 (Creation)

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1 songsheet

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Name of creator

(1876-1947)

Biographical history

James Parnie Dansken was born in 1876 in Partick, Glasgow. He was the son of John Dansken (1836-1905), surveyor and President of the West of Scotland Branch of the British Astronomical Society, who donated a 13-inch reflector and 4-inch refractor telescope to the Royal Technical College. James Parnie Dansken followed his father into the surveying profession, becoming a Fellow of the Faculty of Architects and Surveyors. On 6 May 1903, he was entered onto the Trades House of Glasgow Burgess Roll. James was a partner in the firm of John Dansken & Purdie, Measurers and Property Surveyors, Valuators & Assessors of Fire Losses, from which he retired in May 1933. He died in 1947, aged 70.

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(b 1861)

Biographical history

William Arthur Macfarlane was born in 1861 in Rothesay. He and his brothers were partners in a wholesale manufacturers of enamelled stamped steel hollow-ware and enamelled advertising plates and had offices in Glasgow, London, Wolverhampton, Capetown, Sydney and Holland. He married Jessie Short Dansken in 1901 in Partick.

Archival history

This songsheet had been in the custody of James Parnie Dansken's descendants. His granddaughter, Margaret Holmes, gifted it to the Archives in 2009.

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Folio songsheet containing lyrics by William A. Macfarlane and music by J. Parnie Dansken (Glasgow : Duncan Campbell & Son, c 1914).

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  • English

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