Biographies.
Found in 520 Collections and/or Records:
Transcript of MS.3993: 'Sketch of the character of Mr. [David] Hume, by an author of the nineteenth century' (the Reverend John Home, author of ‘Douglas’), on paper watermarked 1848., 19th century.
The work is apparently unpublished.
Transcripts, 1727, of the autobiography of Robert Blair, minister of St Andrews, and of a biography of William Leitch, minister of Dumfries., 17th century.
The volume was transcribed by the same copyist as MS.5746.
Transcripts of BBC radio programmes.
Concerning Angus Mackay and other pipers and composers.
Translation into English of Ailein Friseal`s book `Eachunn nan Cath` (Glasgow: Gairm, 1979) by Andrew Purves.
Contains:
Acc.13597/1: an A4 notepad in which the translation covers 143 + [2] pages;
Acc.13597/2: a copy of `Eachunn nan Cath` (Glasgow: Gairm, 1979) by Ailean Friseal / Allan Henry Hector Fraser.
Two letters and typescripts of four poems of George Bruce.
Includes typescript recollection of George Bruce by the Rev Alasdair W Macdonell.
Two sets of corrected proofs of ‘Life of General Sir E. B. Hamley’ by Alexander Innes Shand., [1895, or before.]
One set of proofs lacks chapters xix-xxii of the printed edition; the other set (folio 116), corrected by Barbara Hamley, niece of Edward Hamley, lacks chapters xviii-xxxii.
The volume as published contains three additional chapters and many alterations.
Typed accounts, undated, of Sir Robert Strange, his second son Sir Thomas A L Strange, and Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Strange, fifth son of Sir Thomas A L Strange., 4th quarter of 19th century.
The accounts appear to be the work of Coutts Trotter of Dreghorn, who contributed quite similar biographies of these three maternal forebears to the ‘Dictionary of national biography’.
Typescript biography concerning Helen Baker, missionary in Rajputana, by Margaret Foster.
Includes correspondence and photographs.
Typescript, biography of Francis Head by Sydney Anfield-Jackman : "Galloping Head : a Short Life of the Right Honourable Sir Francis Bond Head, Bart., P.C., K.C.H., etc. 1793-1875 Late Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada"., 1952-1953.
With the typescript is a letter, 1 July 1953, of ?May Morris-Davies to John Murray V concerning the biography.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald., 1st quarter of 20th century.
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (born 1849, died 1920), and Jessie E Macdonald.
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald: volume I, 1532-1600., 1st quarter of 20th century
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald: volume II, 1600 to 1700., 1st quarter of 20th century.
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald: volume III, 1700 to 1800., 1st quarter of 20th century.
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald: volume IV, 1800 to 1920., 1st quarter of 20th century.
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Typescript copy of Jean R Macrae, "A Brief Account of the Life of Dame Helen Cargill, DBE".
Typescript copy of Joseph Macleod, "Mrs Henry Siddons (Harriet Murray), 1783-1844, and the Edinburgh Theatre Royal" (1976).
With index.
Typescript copy of Raymond Eagle, "A Highland Gentleman. The Life and Times of Seton Gordon of Skye. 1886-1977".
Typescript draft of Mary Caroline, Countess of Minto, titled 'Lord Minto as Viceroy, 1905-1910'., 1905-1910.
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Typescript draft of Mary Caroline, Countess of Minto, titled 'Lord Minto as Viceroy, 1905-1910'., 1905-1906.
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Typescript draft of Mary Caroline, Countess of Minto, titled 'Lord Minto as Viceroy, 1905-1910'., 1907.
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Typescript draft of Mary Caroline, Countess of Minto, titled 'Lord Minto as Viceroy, 1905-1910'., 1908.
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Typescript draft of Mary Caroline, Countess of Minto, titled 'Lord Minto as Viceroy, 1905-1910'., 1909.
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Typescript draft of Mary Caroline, Countess of Minto, titled 'Lord Minto as Viceroy, 1905-1910'., 1910.
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.