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Lebanon

Introduction
Summary and Resources
Associated People (11)
Images

Flag of Lebanon
Dr Lydia Torrance at gate of Tiberias Hospital 1926

Source: University of Glasgow
Munib Emir El Ghurabyib Matriculation Slip 1915-16

Source: University of Glasgow
William Robertson Matriculation Slip 1885-86

Source: University of Glasgow

The University has had connections with Lebanon through its alumni since the mid-nineteenth century.

Former medical graduate and medical missionary, James Bowen Thomson travelled to the region where met his wife, the founder of the first schools for girls in Lebanon. Among other early alumni who held connections with Lebanon were the sons of Glasgow-based merchants, who became merchants themselves in Beirut.

Between 1880-1965, the University welcomed six Lebanese-born students, the first being William Robertson (MBCM 1887), whose father, James Robertson was Professor of Oriental Languages at the University and founder of the University's Oriental Society.

Following Lebanon's independence in 1943, four students attended the University, having mainly come to study Mechanical, Chemical and Civil Engineering.

Summary

Continent: Asia

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Associated People

To date we have found:
Total	11
Born in Lebanon	3
Died in Lebanon	1
Men	10
Women	1
Earliest graduate *	James Bowen Thompson (1836)

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* This is the earliest graduate associated with Lebanon that we have found. There may have been others we haven't found yet, or who studied at the University but didn't graduate.