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Famous People Connected to Angus
Historic County of Scpotland
Image right - J M Barrie, author of Peter Pan
People of note with connections to the county are listed below. Some of these connections are a little tenuous - counties like to lay claim to people of renown!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from_Angus
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- J M Barrie, author of Peter Pan
- Rev Patrick Bell, inventor
- Louis Black, a Brazilian slave
- Alexander Brown, astronomer
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- Susan Carnegie of Charleton
- George Paul Chalmers, Victorian artist
- Alexander Christie of Montrose - a wealthy merchant and bank agent who assisted in many philanthropic projects such as the bridge over the River North Esk and the creation of Scotland's first lunatic asylum in Montrose.
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- James Drummind Botanist
- John Dunn of Brechin a professional photographer
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- Violet Jacob, poet and author in Scots
- Charles Jarvis, awarded one of the first VC's in World War One
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- William Lamb, Montrose artist and sculptor
- John Langlands, slave owner
- Sir Charles Lyell, geologist
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- Lola Montez, mistress to the King of Bavaria
- Thomas Molison of Brechin
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- John O'Arnha, Montrose Town Officer - gained immortality as the John O’Arnha, the hero of George Beattie’s poem by the same name.
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- Provost Peter Reid of Forfar
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- Shuttleworth, last woman to be executed in Montrose
- James Scott Skinner, the Strathspey King
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- David Waterson, Brechin artist
- Sir Robert Watson-Watt, scientist
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