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Douglas, Sylvester, Baron Glenbervie, politician and diarist, 1743-1823

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Correspondence, notebooks, journals and other papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, Bishop Robert Douglas, and of the Douglas family and estates.

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Identifier: Acc.10229/1-132
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).

Dates: 1597-1823.

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