J. Dalrymple Duncan

(James) Dalrymple Duncan of Woodhead FRSE FSA (7 July 1852 – 8 February 1908), his birth name, was a Scottish lawyer, landowner and antiquarian.

[2] He was a keen amateur chemist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Thomas Gray Duncan (1808–1861) and Mary Dalrymple (1811–1895) of Kirkintilloch, born on 7 July 1852.

His father was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and became a minister of the Church of Scotland at St David's, Kirkintilloch.

He then moved to the Trinity Presbyterian Church of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1850, where he remained for the rest of his life.

[8] The firm was carried on by his partner Frederick Lansdowne Morrison;[8] a volunteer army officer, he served in World War I as colonel of the 5th (City of Glasgow) Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry, in France, Gallipoli and Palestine, dying of illness in Alexandria in 1917.

She had a son George Francis Connal (born 1885), later Connal-Rowan, an officer of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.