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Associated companies and other organisations represented in the records include: The Carfraemill Hotel Co, Ltd; The Barnton Hotel Ltd; Barclay Perkins and Co, and Messrs Cockburn and Murray; The Littlemill Distillery Co; and the Scottish Wholesale Wine Distributors' Association.

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A member of the Glasgow School and a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Arthur Walton exhibited regularly at both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Discharge of Andro Hart, printer, to Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, 1592 (folio 1);(ii) Discharge of Robert Brysone, printer and bookseller, and Evan Tyler, printer, to Mr George Halyburton for liturgies delivered to the Chapel Royal, Edinburgh, 1637 (folio 2);(iii) Letter of the Earl of Mar to Thomas Kennedy, Lord Advocate of Scotland, demanding an immediate report on the presence of a French ship near Inverkeithing, 1714...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Associated companies and other organisations represented in the records include: The Carfraemill Hotel Co, Ltd; The Barnton Hotel Ltd; Barclay Perkins and Co, and Messrs Cockburn and Murray; The Littlemill Distillery Co; and the Scottish Wholesale Wine Distributors' Association.

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The contents are as follows:

(i) Papers, 1745-1746, concerning shipping during the Rising (folio 1);

(ii) Permits to ships and bonds by their masters or owners, 1745-1746 (folio 48);

(iii) Passes and certificates, 1745-1747 (folio 53);

(iv) Reports of prisoners held by the City Guard in Edinburgh, February-September 1746 (folio 139);

(v) Papers concerning the Edinburgh Volunteer Regiment, 1746 (folio 172).

Scope and Contents The papers consist of:(i) Unaddressed letters, 1881-1882, of, and papers, undated, concerning Lady (Jane Francisca) Wilde (folio 1);(ii) Description, 1912, by Archibald Kirk Dickson of his entrance interview for Osborne (folio 17);(iii) Photographs, 1912, 1916, of Robert Kirk Dickson and Archibald Kirk Dickson (folio 20);(iv) Miscellaneous press cuttings concerning the First World War (folio 25);(v) Letter, 7 January 1915, of Lord...

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A member of the Glasgow School and a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Arthur Walton exhibited regularly at both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours.

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...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...

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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).