Archives and Manuscript Catalogue

Scope and Contents 41 photographs of Peter Scott Kirkwood, teacher at Livingstonia, Malawi.Peter Scott Kirkwood was appointed as a teacher to Overtoun Institution in 1906. He married Janet Gilmour in 1910, and the couple`s first child, Janet Hinshaw Kirkwood, was born in April 1913. Kirkwood returned to Scotland in 1915 on furlough, and spent part of the First World War on service with the Y.M.C.A. After the birth of his son in January 1918, and leaving his wife behind in Scotland,...

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Biographical notes, 2013, on Rev Malcolm Moffat, missionary to Livingstonia, Malawi. Rev Moffat, grandson of Robert and Mary Moffat, became an agriculturalist at the Overtoun Institute at Livingstonia, Malawi in 1894. He spent much of his career at Chitambo, and his work included Bible translation.

Scope and Contents Journal, 1880-1881, of James Sutherland, missionary in Livingstonia, Malawi. James Sutherland was recruited as an agriculturalist for the Free Church of Scotland mission in Nyasaland, now Malawi, during its early years. His journal describes his journey up the Zambesi and the Shire, and includes comment on the landscape and its suitability for cultivation. Sutherland arrives at the Church of Scotland mission at Blantyre in February 1881, where he stays for a few weeks before...