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Colonel Sir Thomas Fortune Purves (1871-1950), Engineer-in-Chief of the H.M. Post Office.
1950 Obituary [1]
"...Thomas Fortune Purves was born on December 31, 1871, at Blackadder Mount, Berwickshire. He studied science at Edinburgh University and at the Heriot-Watt College, where he proved to be an outstanding scholar..." Read more.
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