Douglas Alston Gilchrist
Scottish agriculturalist and academic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Douglas Alston Gilchrist FRSE FHAS was a Scottish-born professor of agriculture; author and government advisor. Early life and education The son of wealthy farmer William Gilchrist and his wife Margaret, Douglas Alston Gilchrist was born at Bothwell Park, Bothwell, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was the older brother of the suffragist Marion Gilchrist who, like himself, attended the famous Hamilton Academy school. Upon leaving the Academy, Gilchrist spent the next twelve years in practical farming before attending agriculture and science classes at the Glasgow Technical College, after which he matriculated at the University of Edinburgh, graduating BSc in agriculture in 1889, and also gaining the Royal Agricultural Society of England's senior certificate and the Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland's diploma in agriculture, and its Fellowship .
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