One is a former Lord Provost of Glasgow from the 1930s, the other is a Time Lord from another planet. But could they have been the same person?

That is the question which has been raised after SNP councillor Greg Hepburn noticed a striking resemblance between Patrick Dollan and current Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi.

A painting of Dollan, who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow between 1938 and 1941, hangs in the gallery of the city chambers in they city’s George Square.

Despite it being there for many years, the similarity to the Twelfth Doctor actor, who himself is from Glasgow and studied at the School of Art in the 1980s, has only been noticed.

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The Calton Ward representative tweeted the comparison with a promotional image of Capaldi in the role.

Dollan was born in Baillieston in 1885 and grew up to be an activist for the Scottish Independent Labour Party, also winning the inaugural St Mungo Prize in 1939 for his promotion of the city of Glasgow.

He was knighted in 1941, and passed away in 1963.

Hepburn said: “I was on a break and wondered up to the gallery. I looked at this painting and thought ‘that’s the Doctor’.

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“I’m quite a great Whovian – a Doctor Who fan. From the red jacket to the hair it was a dead image of Peter Capaldi as the Doctor.

“Some of my colleagues thought it as well and we got on to quite an interesting debate about it. It will have been up there for decades. Maybe it was the Time Lord after all.”

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