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Obituaries.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Published notices of a death, usually with a brief biography of the deceased.

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

Book of United Presbyterian hymn tunes of the Rev. Dr Hugh Aird, Brechin, with associated material.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13951
Content Description

Book of hymn tunes, with a label reading "Hugh Aird 1839" pasted onto the inside front cover. The book contains ca. 80 tunes, without texts, of the United Presbyterian Church. The tunes are arranged for four voices, and a contents list is found at the front. Paginated by the scribe 1-100, followed by 19 blank pages. With a photograph of the Rev. Hugh Aird, ?ca. 1890, and a printed obituary entitled "In Memoriam. Rev. Hugh Aird, M.A., D.D., Brechin."

Dates: 1839-1895

Correspondence and research papers of Janet Adam Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11164
Scope and Contents

Written, collected for and concerning Janet Adam Smith`s "John Buchan: A Biography" (London, 1965).

Dates: circa 1915-1965.

Correspondence, papers, press cuttings and photographs of Margo MacDonald, mostly concerning her political career and causes.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13638/1-62
Scope and Contents

The papers reflect Margo MacDonald`s life as a politician and broadcaster. Although somewhat miscellaneous, they provide an insight into her relationship with the Scottish National Party leadership throughout her life, and into some of the causes she advocated during her life, including independence and assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.

Dates: 1955-2014.

Correspondence, typescripts, press cuttings and other papers of Wilfred Taylor.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9575/1-119
Scope and Contents

Includes articles, reviews, memoirs, plays, speeches notes and correspondence.

With volume containing press cuttings, photographs and programmes, 1886-1937, concerning the Ayr Burns Club and Burns Federation.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1846, 1938-1986.

Diaries of John Chisholm, Kings Counsel; and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21072-21096
Scope and Contents

John Chisholm, from Perth, studied at Edinburgh and Leipzig, and was admitted advocate in 1881. He stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative at the elections of 1885 and 1892. He took silk in 1904 and was appointed Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk in 1905. He married in 1892, and died in 1929.

Dates: 1877-1928.

Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13405
Scope and Contents Papers, 1947-1994, of James Douglas Hamilton, Lord Selkirk of Douglas. The collection comprises papers, 1947-1977, concerning the death of Douglas, 14th Duke of Hamilton; correspondence, 1954-1994, of James Douglas Hamilton with George, 10th Earl of Selkirk; papers, ca. 1980-1994, relating to his death and the future of the earldom; and personal papers and correspondence, ca. 1950-1985, of Lord Selkirk of Douglas.The correspondence includes letters of several statesmen and other...
Dates: 1947-1994.

Journal of a visit to Karlsruhe, Switzerland, made by Miss Lucy Black (born 1881), Anwoth Manse, Kirkcudbrightshire, 1899.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17959
Scope and Contents

Miss Black is interested in the scenery, local customs and the flora of Switzerland (she includes a number of pressed flowers in her journal). However, her main interest lies in recording the routine activities of herself and her companions.

At the back there are a number of newspaper cuttings, (folios 75-82) chiefly obituaries of her grandfather the Reverend Edward Black (died 1845) and of her father the Reverend William McMillan Black (died 1901).

Dates: 1845, 1899, 1901-1905.

'Journal of an expedition to Shetland in 1834' and 'Journal of a visit to & residence in the Shetland Islands in 1832', by Edward Charlton, both written up in 1843.

 File
Identifier: MS.3037
Scope and Contents

The work describes the scenery, natural history, customs, history, superstitions, and antiquities of Zetland, and is illustrated by water-colours and pencil drawings by the author, T M Richardson (perhaps the Younger), George Richardson, and others.

An obituary notice of Edward Charlton has been inserted at the end.

Dates: 1832-1834.

Letter, 1931, of Kenneth Macleod to Robert Aitken.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8786
Scope and Contents

With an obituary, 1955, of Macleod.

Dates: 1931-1955.

Letters, 1807-1887, undated, chiefly of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1865), and a few press cuttings, 1865, 1929, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.15196
Scope and Contents The contents of this manuscript had become separated from the Ellice Papers (MSS.15001-15195, Ch.12601-12763) and were purchased separately.The manuscript consists of; (i) Letters 1845-?1857, undated, of Edward Ellice to his niece Marion, subsequently Coleman, chiefly concerning British and European political affairs. (Folio 1.) For the rest of his letters to her see MS.15072. (ii) Letters, [circa 1832-?1862], undated, of Ellice to Joseph Parkes concerning political affairs....
Dates: Majority of material found within 1807-1887, 1929, undated.

Letters of and concerning Harold Hugo.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11602
Scope and Contents

Includes letters to Ruari McLean and obituaries of Hugo by McLean and others.

Dates: 1960-1985.

Letters of Birgit Scott to William Beattie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5977
Scope and Contents

With an obituary of Scott`s father, Svend Holst Jensen.

Dates: 1973-1974.

'Man in his muscles', a notebook of anatomical engravings attributed to Robert Elliot Bewick, wood-engraver, Newcastle, with notes on perspective, and the bones of the human skull.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9318
Scope and Contents

It is possible to date the engravings circa 1824, from an obituary of 'Mr Sharp the Engraver', copied into the notebook, and stated to come from the ‘Tyne Mercury’ for 19th October 1824.

Dates: [Circa 1824.]

Manuscript containing a 15th-century list of benefactors, prayers, obituaries, and rental of the Hospital of St Anthony, Leith; with a 16th-century extract from a rental of Newhaven.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.5
Scope and Contents Manuscript produced in Scotland containing Church offices; a calendar; obituaries of benefactors; a rental of the hospital of St Anthony, Leith; and a rental of Newhaven.The manuscript appears to be the work of two separate hands executed at different times. The earlier part of the work is of the 15th century. From folio 19r onwards the hand can be attributed to the mid-16th century.The contents are as follows:Flyleaves with shelfmark inscriptions. Folios...
Dates: 15th century-1st half of 16th century.

Miscellaneous copies of manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.20768
Dates: 16th century-1914, undated.