Robert Stout was born at Lerwick in Shetland on 28 September 1844, the oldest of six children of a merchant, Thomas Stout and his wife Margaret née Smith. At the age of 14 he sat the teacher’s qualifying examination, then taught in the parish school while learning land and marine surveying, qualifying in 1860.

The activities of our Heritage Department touch upon many aspects of the College, including the Museum, Library and Archive, as well as College buildings and furniture. Christopher Henry, Director of Heritage, looks back at the busy schedule of activities and events that have taken place in the department in 2010

Wyn Beasley uncovers two generations of a remarkable medical family

Stratford in New Zealand is a market town, on the eastern side of Mount Taranaki (formerly Egmont) which rears its conical height of 2518m to dominate the whole region. The Gordon dynasty has equally dominated the medical scene in Taranaki over a couple of generations.

Pictured: Doris Clifton Gordon, dominant figure of the Gordon dynasty and the first Australasian female FRCSEd

The expat Scot who contributed greatly to the growth of New Zealand’s largest city

In New Zealand Sir John Logan Campbell (pictured) is known as ‘the father of Auckland’ and is remembered as an aged white-bearded patriarch; but he was equally one of Edinburgh’s sons, a part of the export trade in wisdom and initiative that made Scottish expatriates so important an element in the growth of Britain’s second empire.