Macbeth family photographs

Category

Library Item

Item no

41338

Title

Macbeth family photographs

Description

Photographs of Macbeth family, some featuring Sheila Macbeth.

Page from Sheila Macbeth Mitchell Scrapbook (1890-1920), who served as a nurse during World War One and who travelled on the H.S. Britannic final ill-fated voyage.

Artist / maker

Mitchell, Sheila Macbeth

Date

1892

Size

35.5 x 26.5 cm

Type

Document; Photograph

Copyright

Reproduced by kind permission of the family of Sheila Macbeth Mitchell

Sheila Macbeth Mitchell's father's first school was Mr Henderson's Preparatory School in India Street, Edinburgh, where he was in the same form as Robert Louis Stevenson. He later attended The Institution (later to become Stewart's Melville) in Queen Street and Edinburgh Academy. When he left school he went to Friedrichshafen in Germany to study engineering and was apprenticed to an engineering firm in Leith Walk. He later relocated to Lancashire where Sheila and several of her siblings were born.

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