Brief Life History of Colin Graham
When Colin Graham Dryburgh was born on 4 September 1914, in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, George Dryburgh, was 32 and his mother, Mary Graham, was 27. He had at least 1 daughter with Mary Lawson Anderson. He died on 6 March 1968, at the age of 53.
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1918
WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
1919 · Battle of George Square
A few months after the ending of World War I, a violent confrontation arose between the Glasgow City Police and workers on strike. There were no fatalities in the skirmish, and it caused the work week to be reduced to 40 hours. But, In the aftermath the leaders of the strike were arrested and British troops were moved to Glasgow and its surrounding areas.
1934 · Scottish National Party founded.
The party was founded on 7 April as the result of a merger between the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party with the help of John MacCormick. Its main objective was to campaign the independence of Scotland from the United Kingdom. The Scottish National Party is the largest political party in Scotland in terms of both seats in the Westminster and Holyrood parliaments, with membership reaching 125,482 members. The party does not have any members of the House of Lords.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Fife): habitational name from Dryburgh in Merton (Berwickshire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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