Richard Dalziel Graham

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

(died 1920) was a British educator, author, artist and printer. He was Director of the Calico Printers Association in Edinburgh.

Life

Little is known of his early life other than that he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and then Tettenhall College. He appears in Edinburgh around 1867 as a teacher of English at 6 Marmion Terrace. He then moves to 18 Lonsdale Terrace around 1870. From 1880 onwards he is running the Strathearn College for Young Ladies at 10 to 12 Strathearn Road in Edinburgh, and is believed to have founded this establishment. This establishment appears to have been specially aimed at the daughters of Scottish clergymen. He was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established i ...

in 1891. His proposers were Rev Henry Calderwood,

Robert McNair Ferguson Robert McNair Ferguson (1829–1912) was a Scottish mathematician and a founder of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. Life and work He was born on 8 July 1829, the son of John Ferguson, a pawnbroker, and his wife, Elisabeth Cochran. He ...

, Andrew Wilson and Charles Teape. In later life he appears to have still lived in the college on Strathearn Road but is no longer listed as its Director. He died on 12 September 1920 and is presumed buried in the Grange Cemetery close to his home. He had a daughter Edith.Kelly’s Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1921 (p.839)

Publications

*''The Masters of Victorian Literature'' (1897)

References

Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish schoolteachers 19th-century births 1920 deaths Year of birth missing People educated at Manchester Grammar School {{UK-writer-stub