Renamed the Mid-Century Book Club.
1816: founded; 1952: T & H Smith bought Duncan Flockhart; by 1960, T & H Smith and J.F Macfarlan merged to form Edinburgh Pharmaceuticals; 1963: the Glaxo Group bought Edinburgh Pharmaceuticals and used the name Macfarlan Smith Ltd. Macfarlan Smith remained part of Glaxo until 1990, when there was a Management Buy Out. 1995: Macfarlan Smith Limited floated on the London Stock Market under the holding company Meconic; 2001: Johnson Matthey plc acquired Meconic; 1995-2005: Wellcome UK Limited (now dissolved) [taken from Science Museum website: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/cp111588/duncan-flockhart-and-company-limited]
Head gardener to Viscount Elveden at Pyrford Court, 1912-1927.
Member of New Zealand Parliament for Gladstone, Canterbury, from 1871 to 1875.
Joseph Yates Cookson was granted permission to take the name and bear the arms of Dod in 1834, the year of his marriage to Charlotte, daughter of Thomas Crewe Dod.
He was Chaplain to the Tower of London from 1863-1866.