Diplomas. School records.
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.
Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas and other documents, mostly conferring titles.
Correspondence and papers, including sermons, lectures, diaries and photographs, of Sir George Adam Smith, Lilian Adam Smith and their family.
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).
Correspondence and papers of the artist Alfred Edward Borthwick and his family.
Degree and diploma certificates from the papers of C M Grieve, `Hugh MacDiarmid`.
Degree of Doctor of Divinity conferred on Andrew Hunter of Barjarg by the University of Edinburgh.
Diploma awarded to John Burdon-Sanderson [later Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet] on his graduation as Doctor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
Diploma granted by the University of Edinburgh to William Gordon on his graduation in the Faculty of Medicine.
Diploma in favour of Robert Menteith of Salmonet as doctor of philosophy and medicine from the University of Padua.
Diploma, invitation and photograph of Sir John Hay Athole Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh, Lord Justice Clerk.
Diploma of Master of Arts from the University of St Andrews, 1773, and of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Edinburgh, 1778, of Robert Steavenson.
Diploma of the University of Edinburgh awarding degree of Doctor of Medicine to Samuel Brown, chemist.
Diplomas of Archibald Gordon.
With photographs of the Gordon pedigree.
Diplomas of learned bodies, 1814-1846, burgess-ticket of Edinburgh, 1815, and commission as Inspector of Factories, 1833, bestowed on Leonard Horner.
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).
Formal documents from the papers of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Formal documents from the papers of John Hill Burton.
Formal documents from the papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.
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.
Further papers and photographs of William Winter Hamilton.
Personal memorabilia and photographs of William W Hamilton, relating to his education at Sheffield University, 1936-1941, and political career.
Illuminated diploma from Edinburgh Association of Science and Arts to D W Kemp.
Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive
Microfilm of Solemn League and Covenant, 1643; and, copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707.
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).
Papers of Alexander Hunter.
Includes two diplomas, 1835 and 1844, of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and address, 1861, from friends on Hunter`s leaving Melbourne.
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).
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`.
The diploma includes printed signatures of Thomas Mackenzie, Senator of the College of Justice; of Henry Glassford Bell, Advocate; and of Archibald Broun, Advocate.