Bewley, Victor Ernest Henry (1912–2000), quaker businessman and philanthropist, was born on 24 May 1912, at Danum, the family estate in Rathgar, one of five children to Ernest Bewley (qv) and Susan Emily Bewley (née Clarke) from Doncaster.…...
Evans, Emyr Estyn
(1905–89), Ireland's first professor of geography, was born 29 May 1905, youngest of four sons and one daughter of the Rev. George Owen Evans, minister of the Presbyterian Church in Wales, and Elizabeth Evans (née Jones). Born in Shrewsbury, he spent his early…...
Tillie, William (1822–1904), shirt manufacturer, was born in October 1822 in Crookston
Mains, in the parish of Stow, Midlothian, Scotland,
son of John Tillie and his wife Jannet Tillie (née Brown), who were substantial farmers;
he had at least two brothers and a sister. Until Tillie…...