Senior Assistant Librarian at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
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.