| Name | Contact details | Brief History |
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| Irene Anthony | email:AnthonyIcra@zzzaol.com | I started at Lauder Road in June 1965 working for John Doney before transferring
to Accounts Office as clerkess. Became Asst Secy in Dec 1982 and stayed till the end
supervising the transfer of staff and equipment to Aberdeen. |
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| Murray Beattie | email:beattiem@zzzkilmarnock.ac.uk | Started in April 75, resigned in Jan 92. Worked in Grazing Ecology with
John Hodgson and Dick Armstrong. Mad motorbiker. Claim to fame:- Almost
knocked down Harry one evening when leaving at great haste, as Harry
attempted to close the gates. Harry commented to Niven that evening - "That
******* youth". Niven did not ask who!! |
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| Alan Sibbald | email:alansibbald13@zzzgmail.com | Joined 1st July 1959 stayed until the end! At Palmerston Pl., Lauder Rd., Bush and Pentlandfield.
Started in Botanical Studies then Animal Production & Nutrition Dept. then Animal Production Dept. |
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| Iain & Glenys White | email:homeagain096@zzzgmail.com | Iain worked with HFRO from August
1969 to November 1988. All of that time in the Animal Studies
department. If it was not a Blood Sampling trip to Glensaugh, Hartwood,
Lephinmore, or Sourhope, or perhaps hunting wild goats in remote corners,
then it was the development of Urine Sampling machines and the
Ultrasonic Scanning of sheep, cows, red deer etc. Glenys had a couple of
years in the office until 1975.
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| Chris Badenoch |
email:badenoch2@zzzgmail.com
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First appeared a student at Sourhope with Bob Hunter/Ian Black in Easter 1963.
(Delivered by Graham Gunn into a snow covered waste!).
Joined Ian Nicholson’s agronomy unit in 1964 working to Sourhope, Lephinmore
and peat-runoff studies on bogs in Lanarkshire and later with Jock Eadie’s unit
at Sourhope on digestibility studies and "systems synthesis". Head-hunted to
work on Red deer and commercial plantation by Nature Conservancy and Forestry
Commission Research in 1969.
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Lynne Torvell |
email:l.torvell@zzzoutlook.com |
Joined Plants & Soils Department 5th. Nov 1973, working with Sheila Grant and Ian Lamb. Then Grazing Ecology under John Hodgson,
with Sheila and Evelyn Sim. Field work at Lephinmore, Glensaugh, Sourhope and Hartwood. Worst memory - Frank's early issue bright
yellow plastic waterproofs with sou'wester hat which channelled the cold rain somewhat badly. Best memory - the view across Bush
Estate to the Pentlands from our window. |
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Iain Wright |
email:i.wright@zzzcgiar.org |
I joined HFRO as PhD student in October 1978, when Angus Russel was my supervisor and joined the staff as a young scientist in
October 1981. I didn’t leave until September 2006 (by then part of the Macaulay Institute). My fondest memories of HFRO are the
family atmosphere and collegiality, but also looking back we were doing ground breaking research on hill and upland research that
was recognized globally – as evidenced by the constant stream of visitors from around the world. We were a very small institute
that punched way above its weight. And of course we got to work on our research stations in some of the most beautiful parts of
the country. |
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