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Election returns. Administrative records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Certified reports by election officers on the outcome vote in an election.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Election accounts and related correspondence and papers., 1779-1886.

 File
Identifier: MS.13364
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703. Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates: 1779-1886.

Miscellaneous personal charters relating to the Dundas family., 1706-?1865.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.B.1340-1349
Scope and Contents

Included are: burgess tickets; an election return, 1722; a patent, 1854, concerning the manufacture of cannon; and, a public testimonial, ?1865, to George Dundas, later Lieutenant-Governor of St Vincent, from the inhabitants of Prince Edward Island.

Dates: 1706-?1865.

Political papers of and concerning Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1942-1978, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27203-27204
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.

Dates: 1942-1978, undated.