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Francis M Chrystal

(died: May 1944)

 

Francis M Chrystal

Member of the Old Edinburgh Club

Francis M Chrystal was the second son of the former Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh.  He attended George Watson's  College, Edinburgh.

He was one of the original members of the Old Edinburgh Club, and contributed views of historic buildings and closes to the Club's volumes.    [Sc:  13 May 1944]

Notes pasted into an old volume of the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club give a slightly fuller account than above.

They refer to FM Chrystal as Dr Chrystal, and to the fact that he graduated in Edinburgh, and had since sailed twice round the world in a professional capacity.  These notes add:

"He was one of the original members of the Old Edinburgh Club.  Dr Chrystal was an expert photographer and contributed views of historic buildings and closes to the Club's volumes."

[Notes pasted into Book of the Old Edinburgh Club at Edinburgh Central Library]

 

Francis M Chrystal

Photographs in Collections

(died: May 1944)

The Edinburgh Public Library has a collection of seventy-two of his photographs, featuring central Edinburgh, Bruntsfield, Morningside, Piershill, and Cramond.  

Several were taken in 1907-12, many years before FM Chrystal became he first appeared in the trade directories as a professional photographer.

 

FM Chrystal

Photographic Societies

FM Chrystal delivered a lecture during the EPS Exhibition in 1909:

"A Voyage Round the Coast of Iceland"

 

FM Chrystal  -  studio addresses and dates

 

 

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