Biographies.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Written accounts of the lives of individuals.
Found in 213 Collections and/or Records:
"Some Remarkable Passages of Mr Donald Cargill`s Life", signed "By a Wellwisher".
Item
Identifier: Acc.5180
Dates:
late 17th century.
Sound recording of [from insert] "A Bonnie Fechter: Alexander Scott, 1920-1989" (Glasgow: Scotsoun, 1990).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10116
Dates:
1990.
Sound recording, with transcript, of a BBC television programme, 'Spectrum: Kenneth White - Nomad -'.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8606/1-3
Dates:
1983.
Sound recordings made by Captain William MacDonald concerning Sir William Macewen.
Series
Identifier: UNLS015
Scope and Contents
The recordings mainly concern the life of William Macewen, in particular his appointment as Surgeon-General to the Royal Navy during World War One, but also his family association with Garrochty.
Dates:
Event: Majority of material found within 1858-1971.
'The Todholes aisle etc: or monumental effigies and portraits of the Tods of Todholes, com. Ayr ... 1844', being caricatures and mock biographical notes, supposedly of members of the Tod family from 1591 to 1846, by Andrew Tod.
Item
Identifier: MS.20990
Dates:
1844.
Transcript of a BBC television programme, "Orpheus with his Lute: a Portrait of Sir Hugh S Robertson".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6817
Dates:
1976.
Transcript of a BBC television programme, "Post Impressions: the Story of J D Fergusson".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6774
Dates:
1976.
Transcripts of BBC radio programmes.
File
Identifier: Acc.5550
Scope and Contents
Concerning Angus Mackay and other pipers and composers.
Dates:
1972.
Translation into English of Ailein Friseal`s book `Eachunn nan Cath` (Glasgow: Gairm, 1979) by Andrew Purves.
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Identifier: Acc.13597
Scope and Contents
Contains:
Acc.13597/1: an A4 notepad in which the translation covers 143 + [2] pages;
Acc.13597/2: a copy of `Eachunn nan Cath` (Glasgow: Gairm, 1979) by Ailean Friseal / Allan Henry Hector Fraser.
Dates:
1988
Two letters and typescripts of four poems of George Bruce.
File
Identifier: Acc.12634
Scope and Contents
Includes typescript recollection of George Bruce by the Rev Alasdair W Macdonell.
Dates:
1975-1976, 1999.
Typescript biography concerning Helen Baker, missionary in Rajputana, by Margaret Foster.
File
Identifier: Acc.10446
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and photographs.
Dates:
20th century.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (born 1849, died 1920), and Jessie E Macdonald.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.2.13-20.2.17
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Typescript copy of Jean R Macrae, "A Brief Account of the Life of Dame Helen Cargill, DBE".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8592A
Dates:
1981.
Typescript copy of Joseph Macleod, "Mrs Henry Siddons (Harriet Murray), 1783-1844, and the Edinburgh Theatre Royal" (1976).
File
Identifier: Acc.7005
Scope and Contents
With index.
Dates:
1976.
Typescript copy of Raymond Eagle, "A Highland Gentleman. The Life and Times of Seton Gordon of Skye. 1886-1977".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9875
Dates:
1989.
Typescript of a paper on the life and work of Edith M Almedingen.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10752
Dates:
1979.
Typescript of an unpublished work of James A Roy, "Lieutenant-General Simon Fraser".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4069
Dates:
circa 1966.
Typescript of Donald W Nichol, "Pope`s Literary Legacy: the Book-Trade Correspondence of William Warburton and John Knapton".
File
Identifier: Acc.10837
Scope and Contents
Contains material not printed in the version published, 1992, by The Oxford Bibliographical Society. Includes photocopies of some of the original letters from various libraries.
Dates:
1990.
Typescript of Ian Fisher, "Thomas Hamilton of Edinburgh, Architect and Town Planner (1784-1858)".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4049
Dates:
circa 1966.
Typescript of J K Annand "Two Voices, a Poem Sequence", manuscript journal, 1990, of visit to Norway and first draft typescript, 1969, "Hugh Macdiarmid, Some Notes on the Chronology of the Poet`s Early Career"
File
Identifier: Acc.11064
Dates:
circa 1969-1990.
Typescript of James B Caird, "Sorley MacLean: a Personal View".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10658
Dates:
1986.
Typescript of Leah Chalmers, "James Chalmers the Scottish Postal Reformer: His Times and Work".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8154
Dates:
circa 1953.
Typescript of lecture of Michael Plint, "The Workmans: Travellers Extraordinary".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10249
Dates:
1990.