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Walter Biggar Blaikie

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He worked as a civil engineer with the Department for Public Works in India from 1870 until 1873, but after the birth of their first child he and his wife returned to Scotland to work for the large engineering firm of
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In 1928 his daughters donated a large collection of his historical papers concerning the Jacobite Uprising and the Stuarts to the
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He is buried in the grave of his maternal grandfather, Henry Balfour Biggar, in the north-east corner of the north extension to
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where he worked until 1880. In 1879, he became involved in the printing business which became
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Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J)
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in Edinburgh. He is the last named on a badly eroded stone.
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The grave of Walter Biggar Blaikie, St Cuthberts, Edinburgh
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1918 Deputy Lieutenant of the County and City of Edinburgh
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Edinburgh at the Time of the Occupation of Prince Charles
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LLD
Pilrig
Margaret Catherine Biggar
William Garden Blaikie
Pilrig
Edinburgh Academy
University of Edinburgh
Blyth & Blyth
T and A Constable
Edinburgh
Jacobite
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Royal Society of Edinburgh
John George Bartholomew
Sir John Murray
Hugh Robert Mill
St Cuthberts Churchyard
National Library of Scotland
University of Edinburgh
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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