For a country with a resident population of only five million, Scotland has produced a surprisingly large number of people who have made a significant contribution to science, exploration, development of ideas and inventions.
My cousin Helen Agness Longrigg (4th cousin 3x removed) married in to the Geikie family and they had several family members to be proud of.
Helen’s husband Walter Geikie, (1841-1929) born in Edinburgh, Midlothian,Scotland fourth of nine children of James Stewart Geikie and Isabella Thoms seemed to live a quiet ordinary life in comparison to others. Son of a Perfumer he started work at age 20 as a clerk in a Sugar House in Glasgow. Moved on to being the manager of a Rice Company and by 1901 was living in London working as a Commissioner of Dry Goods.
His father had an Uncle also named Walter
In his second year he was attacked by a "nervous fever" by which he permanently lost the faculty of hearing, but through the careful attention of his father he was enabled to obtain a good education. Before he had the advantage of the instruction of a master he had attained considerable proficiency in sketching both figures and landscapes from nature, and in 1812 he was admitted into the drawing academy of the board of Scottish manufactures. He first exhibited in 1815, and was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1831, and a fellow in 1834. He died on the 1st of August 1837, and was interred in the Greyfriars kirkyard in Edinburgh. Owing to his want of feeling for color, Geikie was not a successful painter in oils, but he sketched in India ink with great truth and humor the scenes and characters of Scottish lower-class life in his native city.
Examples of his work
1 comment:
He was talented - those pictures are beautiful. Oh how I would love to be creative in that way. Thanks again for sharing.
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