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Goldsmith, Oliver, author, 1728-1774 15

Prior, Sir James, Knight, biographer, c 1790–1869 15

British Broadcasting Corporation 7

Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 3

Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 3

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Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 3

Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 2

Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 2

Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 2

Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, poet, 1585-1649 2

Gladstone, William Ewart (statesman) 2

Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2

Head, Francis Bond, Sir, 1st Baronet (Colonial Governor) 2

Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 2

Irving, Washington (author, pseudonym 'Geoffrey Crayon') 2

Jennings, Ruth, writer, b 1928 2

MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 2

Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 2

Mackenzie, Henry, author of "The Man of Feeling", 1745-1831 2

Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 2

McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 2

Soutar, William (poet) 2

Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 2

Almedingen, Edith Martha, novelist, 1898-1971 1

Alston, Charles, scientific writer, 1685-1760 1

Alston, James Maxwell, pathologist, b 1900 1

Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1

Arthur, Sir George Compton Archibald, 3rd Baronet, Private Secretary to Earl Kitchener, 1860-1946 1

Baker, Helen Mary, missionary, 1908-1988 1

Barclay, Alexander, , Alexander (pro-slavery advocate, author of "A Practical View of Slavery in the West Indies") 1

Barclay, Robert Heriot, Captain, RN, 1785-1837 1

Becker, Werner F, psychiatrist, fl 1959 1

Begg, Isabella Burns, sister of Robert Burns, poet, 1771-1858 1

Blair, Helen M, correspondent of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, fl 1935 1

Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 1

Bonar, James, Solicitor of Excise, 1757-1821 1

Boswell, James, of Auchinleck, author, 1740–1795 1

British Social Hygiene Committee 1

British Social Hygiene Council 1

Brown, George Douglas, author, 1869-1902 1

Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1

Burnet, James, author of "The Life and Works of Guido Gezelle", fl 1948 1

Burton, John Hill, historian, 1809-1881 1

Calder, Peter Ritchie, Baron Ritchie-Calder, author and journalist, 1906-1982 1

Campbell, Duncan, piper to Forbes of Newe, d 1860 1

Campbell, Patrick William, Writer to the Signet, 1850-1922 1

Cargill, Dame Helen Wilson, Air Commandant, 1896-1969 1

Cargill, Donald, Covenanter, c 1627-1681 1

Cavalier, Jean, Major-General, 1681-1740 1

Chalmers, James, Post Office reformer, 1782-1853 1

Chalmers, Leah, author of "How the Adhesive Postage Stamp was Born", fl 1939-1953 1

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith, miscellaneous writer, 1874-1936 1

Chevassut, F J, vicar, fl 1936 1

Chevassut, F J, vicar, fl 1936: recipient 1

Church of England, Advisory Board for Moral Welfare Work 1

Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Board 1

Clare, Tom H, employee of Edward Arnold and Co., fl 1930 1

Colin, A, member of the Child Welfare Committee of the League of Nations, fl 1935 1

Colin, A, member of the Child Welfare Committee of the League of Nations, fl 1935: recipient 1

Council of City of Edinburgh, Lord Provost 1

Crabbe, George (poet) 1

Crabbe, George, Anglican clergyman and writer, 1785-1857 1

Craig, R S (annotator of a copy of "George Douglas Brown") 1

Crichton, James, called the Admirable Crichton, 1560-1582 1

Crossley, A J, Assistant Secretary, of the Church of England Advisory Board for Moral Welfare Work, fl 1936 1

Crossley, A J, Assistant Secretary, of the Church of England Advisory Board for Moral Welfare Work, fl 1936: recipient 1

Cunningham, Peter, author, 1816-1869 1

Dalrymple, Sir David, 3rd Baronet, Senator of the College of Justice, 1726-1792 1

Dennistoun, James, antiquary, 1803-1855 1

Department of Health for Scotland 1

Devereux, Yvonne, author of typescript "A Family Revealed: the Search for Horace Hayman Wilson", fl 1998 1

Eagle, Raymond, biographer of Seton Gordon, fl 1989 1

Edinburgh Women Citizens Association 1

Edward Arnold, publisher 1

Elder, R Ian, Rector, Webster's High School, Kirriemuir, fl 2000-2002 1

Elliot, Walter Elliot, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1888-1958 1

Elwin, Whitwell (rector of Booton) 1

Encyclopaedia Britannica, publisher 1

Erickson, John, military historian, 1929-2002 1

Fawcett, Benjamin, engraver and colour printer, 1808-1893 1

Fergusson, John Duncan, artist, 1874-1961 1

Fisher, Ian, Oxford, fl 1966 1

Fleming, Lindsay, author of "Life of James Dennistoun", fl 1951-1954 1

Fletcher, David, literary agent, David Fletcher Associates, fl 1979-2001 1

Forsyth, David, dentist, fl 1933 1

Foster, Margaret, Assistant Secretary to the Royal Scottish Academy, fl 1925-1995 1

Fraser, Simon, de jure 12th Lord Lovat, Lieutenant-General, 1726-1782 1

Freeman, Thomas, medical director, the Lansdowne Clinic for Functional Nervous Disorders, fl 1960 1

Friseal, Ailean, Lecturer in Animal Husbandry, Aberdeen, and author, 1900-1979 1

Fry, Edwin Sargood, medical missionary in India, 1858-1929 1

Galantini, Adriano, Rome, fl 1950-1995 1

Garden, Mary, musician, 1874-1967 1

Gezelle, Guido, poet, 1830-1899 1

Gifford, William (editor of the "Quarterly Review") 1

Glasfurd, Charles Lamont Robertson, Major-General, Indian Army, 1831-1887 1

Glasfurd, Frederick William, Lieutenant, Indian Army, 1843-1867 1

Glasfurd, John, Major-General, Indian Army, 1810-1864 1

Gollan, John, General Secretary of the British Communist Party, 1911-1977 1

Gordon, Patrick, General, 1635-1699 1

Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 1

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