Elmslie William Dallas

Elmslie William Dallas FRSE (27 June 1809 – 26 January 1879) was a Scottish artist, teacher and photographer.

Life

He was the second son of William Dallas (4 August 1773 - 14 February 1842) from Cantray, Inverness-shire, who worked at the insurers Lloyd's of London; and Sarah Day (1782 - 1862) from Dudley in England. Elmslie was born in London on 27 June 1809.

Elmslie was descended from Alexander Dallas of Cantray, Inverness-shire, his great great great grandfather. He went to school at Inverness Academy.

Dallas settled in Edinburgh, where he lived firstly at 125 Princes Street a house facing Edinburgh Castle.

He married late in life (1859) to Jane Fordyce Rose (c. 1832 - 3 March 1908). Jane Fordyce Rose was the daughter of James Rose, writer to the signet, of Dean Bank, Edinburgh.

Works

For teaching Dallas wrote a work on "Applied Geometry". In 1851 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Philip Kelland. In the Society he read papers on the structure of diatomacea, on crystallogenesis, and on the optics of lenses.