Biographies.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Written accounts of the lives of individuals.
Found in 213 Collections and/or Records:
Typescript of Malcolm Murray, "Överslöjtnant Alexander Irvings Skotska Bördsbrer av den 16 Maj 1642".
File
Identifier: Acc.9162
Scope and Contents
With an English translation, notes and correspondence, 1986.
Dates:
1976-1986.
Typescript of "The Legend and Genealogical Chart of St Margaret" by Imre Kish.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11834
Dates:
1999.
Typescript of Yvonne Devereux`s "A Family Revealed: the Search for Horace Hayman Wilson".
Item
Identifier: Acc.11619
Dates:
1998.
Typescript Peeblesshire church histories, by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn, intended to form part of the author's series of 'Books of the Church'.
Series
Identifier: MSS.954-961
Scope and Contents
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Typescripts of biographical notes concerning John Glasfurd and his sons, Frederick W Glasfurd and Charles L R Glasfurd.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4061
Dates:
circa 1966.
Typescripts of biographies of James Dennistoun by James Fleming and Lindsay Fleming; with papers and correspondence of Lindsay Fleming of and relating to James Dennistoun, including portraits and research material.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5525/1-13
Dates:
1803-1859, circa 1945-1965, undated.
Unpublished biography of John Gollan, General Secretary of the British Communist Party, by Margot Kettle.
File
Identifier: Acc.11479
Scope and Contents
Includes related research material, including tapes of interviews with personal and political friends.
Dates:
circa 1990.
Varia on Icelandic history, including lives of the prefects and bishops of Iceland by Jón Haldórsson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.7
Dates:
18th century.
‘View of the diocese of Aberdeen’, a volume of historical narrative written by Alexander Keith, episcopal minister at Cruden.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.12
Scope and Contents
It includes descriptions of the civil parishes, biographies of bishops of the diocese, accounts of the old religious houses, collegiate churches and deaneries and of King`s College and University, parochial histories arranged by presbyteries and transcripts and extracts of documents relating to the history of the see.
Dates:
1732.
Volume containing brief biographies of men who were, or were claimed to have been, Scottish authors (folio 10).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.17
Scope and Contents
The biographies, some of which have additions and corrections, are written in a formal 17th-century hand, and are arranged in approximately chronological order, from St Alban to Robert Balfour (died 1610). The leaf following the last biography is inscribed `Reliqua Alibi` and `Reliqua Alij, aut nos alias 1627 Julio mense` (folio 84). The work is unsigned but the biographies have been ascribed to David Buchanan (folio 1, note in Walter Goodall`s hand). The biographies are preceded...
Dates:
1627.
Volume containing, in part, brief biographies of men who were, or who were claimed to have been, Scottish authors (folios 6-8, 11, 12-16 verso, 30-39, 51 verso-54).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.18
Scope and Contents
The biographies are written in a formal 17th-century hand, similar to that of the greater part of Adv.MS.33.7.17, and are arranged in a very approximately chronological order.The biographies are interspersed with writings on various topics, written in an informal contemporary hand, or hands, similar to the informal hand(s) in Adv.MS.33.7.17. The topics include poems (folios 2 verso-5 verso, 77-77 verso), an account entitled `De Monasteriis Scotorum` (folio 63), and some extracts...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Writings of James Hogg, published by Blackie & Son in 1837, with biographical material regarding his family, supplied in connection with the Centenary Edition of his 'Works', published by the same firm in 1873.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1869-1870
Dates:
[1827, or after], 1873, undated.
Writings of Vero L Bosazza on nineteenth century explorers of African countries, chiefly David Livingstone.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20333-20340
Scope and Contents
Vero L Bosazza, a South Africa geologist who worked in various African countries, became interested in the nineteenth century travellers there, especially David Livingstone. In retirement he wrote extensively on them, his personal knowledge of the localities giving his work a dimension frequently lacking in other scholarship. His writings are almost entirely unpublished, except in the sense that he distributed copies of them to various libraries with interests in African history....
Dates:
1861-1865, 1955-1979.