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Diplomas. School records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Formal documents conferring some honor, degree, or privilege, especially those bearing record of graduation from or a degree conferred by an educational institution.

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.10
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Portrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year 1691. With a Relationof the Castle of Edr. in the year 1689’ (folio 1), which is attributed to David Burnet, a Catholic Priest. The original manuscript, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen (‘The House of Gordon’, page xxxvi), is at the Scottish Catholic Archives, Columba House, Edinburgh, where it has the...
Dates: 1554-1720.

Correspondence and papers, including sermons, lectures, diaries and photographs, of Sir George Adam Smith, Lilian Adam Smith and their family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9446/1-422
Scope and Contents

The George Adam Smith Archive, comprising correspondence and papers, 1859-1949, of the Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942), theologian, Moderator of the United Free Church General Assembly, 1916, and Principal of Aberdeen University, 1910-35; of his wife Lilian, née Buchanan (1866-1949) and her family; and of their family, particularly George Buchanan Smith (d.1915) and Robert Dunlop Smith (d.1917).

Dates: 1847-1982.

Correspondence and papers of the artist Alfred Edward Borthwick and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.10393-10491
Scope and Contents A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates: 1815-1967, undated.

Diplomas of Archibald Gordon.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6311
Scope and Contents

With photographs of the Gordon pedigree.

Dates: 1832-1837.

Diplomas of learned bodies, 1814-1846, burgess-ticket of Edinburgh, 1815, and commission as Inspector of Factories, 1833, bestowed on Leonard Horner.

 File
Identifier: Ch.934-942
Scope and Contents

Included is a copy of a deed of sale of pictures, executed by Sir Thomas Hanmer, Baronet, of Hanmer and Mildenhall, Speaker of the House of Commons, endorsed, apparently, in Hanmer`s hand, 1718 (Ch.942).

Dates: 1718, 1814-1833.

Formal documents from the papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.15348-15377
Scope and Contents

These documents relate to Professor Traill`s family the Traills of Tirlot in Orkney, his daughter`s family, the Omonds, and the Grahams of Breckness and Gorthie.

Dates: 1645-1897, undated.

Further papers and photographs of William Winter Hamilton.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14270/1-4
Scope and Contents

Personal memorabilia and photographs of William W Hamilton, relating to his education at Sheffield University, 1936-1941, and political career.

Dates: 1936-1989.

Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.50707-50842
Scope and Contents This collection reflects the personal life and artistic career of Lady Mackay (b.1941). The papers contain correspondence, sketchbooks and loose artworks, writing drafts and proofs, school records, personal and art-related photographs, family papers, and career-related ephemera.The collection has been arranged into five distinct series as follows:1. Correspondence of Lucinda Mackay (with friends, close acquaintances, painting subjects, patrons, other artists, and...
Dates: 1941-2022

Microfilm of Solemn League and Covenant, 1643; and, copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.456
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Solemn League and Covenant, printed by Evan Tyler (Edinburgh, 1643), and subscribed in West St. Giles’s, Edinburgh, in October 1643. It has some 750 names, of which two-thirds are actual signatures (Adv.MS.23.3.16);

Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707, most of the material being late 17th and early 18th century. Also included are copies of material concerning the Order of the Thistle (Adv.MS.34.6.2).

Dates: 1554-1707.

Papers of Alexander Hunter.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9560
Scope and Contents

Includes two diplomas, 1835 and 1844, of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and address, 1861, from friends on Hunter`s leaving Melbourne.

Dates: 1835-1861.

Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).

 File
Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated

Printed diploma in favour of Thomas Sprot, W.S., admitting him to the `Order of the Freedom of the World`, and conferring on him `jus semper edendi, bibendi, ac fumandi in Nostra Societate`.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.B.38
Scope and Contents

The diploma includes printed signatures of Thomas Mackenzie, Senator of the College of Justice; of Henry Glassford Bell, Advocate; and of Archibald Broun, Advocate.

Dates: 1856.