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The first Cullen Report was prompted by Occidental Petroleum's Piper Alpha disaster on 6 July 1988, [1] in which gas condensate ignited, killing 167 of the 229 people on board the oil platform in only 22 minutes. [2]
Lord Cullen has conducted inquiries into three major British disasters, all of which are known as the Cullen Inquiry: The Piper Alpha oil platform disaster, 6 July 1988. The Dunblane Massacre of schoolchildren, 13 March 1996. The Ladbroke Grove rail crash, west London of 5 October 1999.
The Edinburgh Review (second series) was founded in 1802 by a group of essayists who knew each other first in the milieu of the Speculative Society. [11]The University of Cambridge had a Speculative Society in the early years of the 19th century; it was one of the clubs that merged to form the Cambridge Union Society. [12]
Critical and Historical Essays was from the first a successful undertaking, reaching a seventh reprinting by 1849, and it was soon being read all over the English-speaking world. [3] One 19th century traveller in Australia reported that the books he found there were for the most part copies of the Bible, Shakespeare, and Macaulay's Essays. [4]
Robert Cullen, Lord Cullen FRSE (22 September 1742 – 28 November 1810) was a British judge from Hamilton, Scotland. Friends knew him as Bob Cullen . He played a key role, along with his father William Cullen , in obtaining a royal charter for the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, resulting in the formation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ...
Cullen was born in Hamilton. [10] His father William was a lawyer retained by the Duke of Hamilton as factor, and his mother was Elizabeth Roberton of Whistlebury. [11] [12] He studied at the Old Grammar School of Hamilton (renamed in 1848 The Hamilton Academy), then, in 1726, began a General Studies arts course at the University of Glasgow.
In 1888, Cullen married Grace Rutherfurd Clark (1864-1943), from Manchester. [3] They had one daughter, and two sons: [1] Kenneth Douglas Cullen (born 1889), who became an advocate in 1919; [10] and William Geoffrey Langley Cullen (1894-1915) who died whilst serving as a second lieutenant in the Royal Scots during the First World War. [11] [12]
An Essay for Peace by Union in Judgment; about Church-Government in Scotland. In a letter from … to his neighbour in the countrey , (anon.), Edinb. 1703, 4to. A Letter from a Country Gentleman to his Friend in the City; showing the Reasons which induce him to think that Mr. W[ebste]r is not the Author of the Answer to the Essay for Peace , &c ...