Lots of well known names on the list.
Acclaimed writer Alisdair Gray has been honoured for his achievements alongside Old Firm football legends, a 'God fearing' police chief and Scotland's answer to Agatha Christie.published today, adds the biographies of 247 people who left their mark on the UK and died in the year 2019.
Though he wrote in numerous forms – novels, short stories, essays, plays, poems, and non-fiction – he regarded himself primarily as an artist, and lived to see his artistic reputation catch up with his literary one.This update also includes two of the ‘Lisbon Lions’, who won the European Cup forCaptain Billy McNeill made 790 appearances for the club, 609 of them as captain and also achieved the feat of never being substituted.
He also won forty caps for Scotland, fifteen as captain, including in the famous 2-0 defeat of England in 1962 . His career was also cut short by a broken leg, in a match against England at Wembley in 1963. An article published by Scots cardiologist Desmond Julian in The Lancet led to one of the most important advances in the treatment of heart disease.
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