George Coull

He served as Managing Director of Raimes Clark & Co, parent company to Scotland's largest independent chemist, Lindsay & Gilmour.

He was then apprenticed to a pharmacist, taking extra lessons and exams in pharmacology at Surgeons' Hall.

For most of his life he lived on the first floor of the impressive Georgian villa at the end of Smiths Place, off Leith Walk in Edinburgh, above the offices of Raimes, Clark & Co for whom he acted as managing director.

His proposers were George Barger, Alfred Archibald Boon, Alexander Lauder, and Leonard Dobbin.

He was elected a member of Edinburgh Town Council in 1913 and rose to the level of Bailie of the Burgh.