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HENRY BELL

Henry Bell was a British engineer. He was born in 1767 at Linlithgowshire and died in 1830. He was apprenticed as a millwright, and afterwards served under several engineers, including Rennie. He settled in Glasgow in 1790, and subsequently in Helensburgh. In 1798 he turned his attention specially to the steam-boat, the practicability of steam navigation having been already demonstrated. In 1812 the Comet, a small thirty-ton vessel built at Glasgow under Henry Bell's directions, and driven by a three horse-power engine made by himself, commenced to ply between Glasgow and Greenock, and continued to run until she was wrecked in 1820. This was the beginning of steam navigation in Europe. It has been asserted that Fulton, who started a steamer on the Hudson in 1807, obtained his ideas from Henry Bell in the previous year. Henry Bell is also credited with the invention of the 'discharging machine' used by calico-printers. A monument has been erected to his memory at Dunglass Point on the Clyde.
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JACK BUCHANAN

Jack Buchanan was a Scottish actor. He was born in 1891 at Helensburgh and died in 1957 of spinal arthritis.
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DEBORAH KERR

Deborah Kerr (Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer) was a Scottish actress. She was born in 1921 at Helensburgh and died in 2007. Perhaps her most memorable role was starring as 'Anna Leonowens' in the 1956 film 'The King and I'.
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HELENSBURGH

Helensburgh is a seaside town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The settlement was founded by Sir James Colquhoun pf Luss in 1776, and named in honour of his wife Lady Helen Sutherland.
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