Month: May 2014
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The case of Mr. Z
The medical doctors amoung the readership of this blog will be well aware that a doctor’s examination and diagnosis takes into account all factors, medical and social. In this post, Dr Sutherland relates the case of Mr. Z: Mr. Z was an insurance agent, dying of consumption. As soon as I entered the dingy hall…
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Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
When Halliday Sutherland was fifteen, William Frederick Cody – “Buffalo Bill” – took his show to Britain. Sutherland saw the show in Glasgow, later describing it as “the best entertainment of my childhood…a better show for boys of all ages was never staged in any amphitheatre.”
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Scottish Idyll
In 1890 , the Sutherland family took a holiday in a Scottish farmhouse. Halliday Sutherland was eight. His later description of the landscape revealed his love of and deep affinity to Scotland.
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Genealogy
The genealogy of Halliday Sutherland is shown in the file linked below for those Sutherlands, Sinclairs, Mackays and Macalisters who are researching their family tree (this tree includes sixty names). Feel free to download and mention that hallidaysutherland.com was the source. HGS Family Tree – new format The information comes from a typed and hand-written document produced…
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The Regent’s Park Bandstand School
The Regent’s Park Bandstand School was run from the St Marylebone Dispensary for the Prevention of Consumption. Dr Sutherland described it in this excerpt from “Arches of the Years”. The greatest romance which London ever gave me was the Romance of the Bandstand School in Regent’s Park. From 1910 to 1929, in all weathers, a…