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This is a basic record only. Content, whether whole or in part, from the following manuscript in the collections of the National Library of Scotland is included on the microfilm. MS.11081.

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This is a basic record only. Content, whether whole or in part, from the following manuscripts in the collections of the National Library of Scotland is included on the microfilm. MSS.11082, 11083.

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The microfilms in this series have been described to a basic standard.

The dates are taken from the original accession record and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.

Scope and Contents

The microfilms in this series have been described to a basic standard.

The dates are taken from the original accession record and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.

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The microfilms in this series have been described to a basic standard.

The dates are taken from the original accession record and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...

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Dr Irvine trained as a surgeon at Aberdeen before seeing wartime service in Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1917-1919. In 1919, he was appointed medical missionary to the new Church of Scotland mission to Chogoria. He took up his post in 1922 and remained at Chogoria until his retirement in 1961. He was ordained in 1933 and died in Nairobi in 1974.

The photographs, films and papers represent Dr Irvine's working and family life.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Will of the 9th Marquess of Tweeddale and papers concerning the executry of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, 1874-1876 (folio 1);(ii) Birth certificate, 1886, of Lord Arthur Vincent Hay (folio 28);(iii) Printed election addresses, 1865, 1868, of the 10th Marquess of Tweeddale to the electors of Taunton and East Lothian (folio 29);(iv) Official papers, 1890-1898, of the 10th Marquess of Tweeddale as Lord High...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Rosebery, styled Lord Dalmeny from the death of his father in 1851 until he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1868, held various public offices including those of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1881-1883, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, February to July 1886, and again in 1892-1894, and was Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury from 5 March 1894 to 25 June 1895, remaining leader of the Liberal party till 1898.The papers consist chiefly...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...

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Whilst at St Helena, Alexander Walker busied himself in promoting the agricultural potential of the island and in tackling the question of slavery.

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Papers of the Willison family, who farmed in both Lanarkshire and Perthshire, covering personal and business matters. The collection includes a detailed family history and genealogy composed by Ralph Willison Simmonds (Edinburgh 1989), detailed transcripts and a booklet with historical notes: The Willisons of South Lanarkshire (Edinburgh, 1994), also by Mr Willison - see Acc.11049/1 and Acc.11049/76.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Rosebery, styled Lord Dalmeny from the death of his father in 1851 until he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1868, held various public offices including those of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1881-1883, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, February to July 1886, and again in 1892-1894, and was Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury from 5 March 1894 to 25 June 1895, remaining leader of the Liberal party till 1898.The papers consist chiefly...

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Robert Liston was sent on an extraordinary mission to Denmark empowered to sign a convention with Denmark and Russia guaranteeing that peace would not be concluded with France until any territories Denmark lost had been restored to her. After the closing by the British of the Elbe and the Weser, any prospect of a rapprochement with Denmark faded and Liston was recalled.

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The papers are undated or dated prior to Robert Liston's arrival in Constantinople.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Having taken up his post as Chargé d'Affaires in Madrid, Robert Liston was, in May 1783, appointed Minister Plenipotentiary on Lord Mountstuart being ordered to Sweden.The main themes of his reports home were: the strength of the Family Compact; the constant endeavours of Spain to retrieve Gibraltar; and the negotiations for the removal of British settlers from the Mosquito shore. Liston's constant pressure eventually resulted in an amicable settlement on the settler issue, but...

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In 1802 Robert Liston was instructed to put the relations between the new Republic and Britain on a good footing. After the outbreak of hostilities between France and Britain in 1803, he received orders to return immediately if France would not give guarantees to respect Batavian neutrality by withdrawing her troops.

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The papers concern: Robert Liston's career as tutor to the sons of Sir Gilbert Elliot; the period from 1771 to 1773 which he spent in applying, unsuccessfully, for various posts; his assisting Gilbert Stuart in editing 'The London Magazine'; and the beginning of his diplomatic career, as secretary to Hugh Elliot in Munich and as Chargé d'Affaires to the Imperial Diet in Ratisbon, 1774-1776.