Certificates.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents giving authoritative recognition of a fact, qualification, or promise.
Found in 111 Collections and/or Records:
Printed material, including lectures, reports, poetry and minutes., 1862-1983, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8695/226-304
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...
Dates:
1862-1983, undated.
Private pilot's certificate and licence issued in favour of Robert Kirk Dickson by the New Zealand Air Department., 1947.
File
Identifier: MS.13585
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection, in which family correspondence predominates, reflects all aspects of the naval career of Robert Kirk Dickson. He took part in the Battles of the Falkland Islands, 1914, Gallipoli, 1915, and Jutland, 1916. In the Second World War he served as Duty Captain in the Admiralty War Room, 1939-1940, and commanded the fast minelayer, H.M.S. Manxman, 1940-1942, when he took part in a series of offensive minelaying operations in the Channel, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. He was Deputy...
Dates:
1947.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson (1898-1952) and of his younger brother, Midshipman Archibald Kirk Dickson (died 1916), with some papers of their father, William Kirk Dickson (1860-1949), first Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
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Papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson.
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Personal and naval papers of Robert Kirk Dickson.
Prizes, certificates, degrees and related papers., Undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9533/296-305
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, 1927-8, East Africa, 1934-5, and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries.Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean Kingdon Ward, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a...
Dates:
Undated.
Rolls of the Mackenzies of Delvine., 1713-1775.
File
Identifier: MS.1529
Scope and Contents
Contains papers of the following: Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl, 1775; St Clair of Sinclair, 1751; Stewart, 8th and 9th Earls of Moray, 1739-1767; Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland, 1751; Wright of Cliftonhall and Kersy, Alexander Gibson, 1761-1762; Young, Dame Jean, née Hamilton of Preston, 1713. All except the last are papers in connexion with serving of heirs.
Dates:
1713-1775.
School papers, including records and certificates, of David Steel., 1943-1959, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13477/1-10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection comprises school papers, 1943-1959, and material relating to his time at Edinburgh University, 1957-1962; files relating to elections, 1961-circa 1990s; political papers, 1954-1981, mainly concerning constituency politics; manuscript diary of the Lib-Lab Pact, 1977-1978; files relating to his involvement in the Scottish Constitutional Convention, 1988-1998, including minutes of meetings and related correspondence; files relating to Scottish politics, 1992-1999, including...
Dates:
1943-1959, undated.
Share records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman', and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch', containing certificates, letters and receipts., 1905-1940.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11812/7-11
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates:
1905-1940.
Two certificates awarded to James Johnston from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers., 1967-1968
Item
Identifier: Acc.13818/55
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
1967-1968
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Major-General James Johnston
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Papers relating to the military career of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to James Johnston as a staff officer and in higher command.
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Papers relating to James Johnston on his posting to the 1st Armoured Division.
Typed transcript of a certificate given by Sir John Hall, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, to Thomas Weir, apothecary, concerning the making of Dr Anderson’s Scots Pills., 1694.
Item
Identifier: MS.6295, folio 1
University courses taken by James Johnston relating to his personal interests., 1969, 1977-1983.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/511-518
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1969, 1977-1983.
Various framed, mounted and other special items., 1752-2002, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12235/469-494
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates:
1752-2002, undated.
Various miscellaneous papers of Ruthven Todd., 1944-1977, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26886
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Autobiographical notes and papers, circa 1955-1975 (folio 1); (ii) Typescript of a radio interview given by Ruthven Todd, 1974 (folio 8); (iii) Miscellaneous notes and papers, 1944-1977, undated (folio 36).
Dates:
1944-1977, undated.