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Biographies.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Written accounts of the lives of individuals.

Found in 520 Collections and/or Records:

Transcripts of BBC radio programmes.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5550
Scope and Contents

Concerning Angus Mackay and other pipers and composers.

Dates: 1972.

Translation into English of Ailein Friseal`s book `Eachunn nan Cath` (Glasgow: Gairm, 1979) by Andrew Purves.

 ...
Identifier: Acc.13597
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1988

Two letters and typescripts of four poems of George Bruce.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12634
Scope and Contents

Includes typescript recollection of George Bruce by the Rev Alasdair W Macdonell.

Dates: 1975-1976, 1999.

Two sets of corrected proofs of ‘Life of General Sir E. B. Hamley’ by Alexander Innes Shand., [1895, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.4801
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: [1895, or before.]

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.

 File
Identifier: MS.20267
Scope and Contents

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’.

Dates: 4th quarter of 19th century.

Typescript biography concerning Helen Baker, missionary in Rajputana, by Margaret Foster.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10446
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence and photographs.

Dates: 20th century.

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.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.2.13-20.2.17
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1st quarter of 20th century.

Typescript draft of Mary Caroline, Countess of Minto, titled 'Lord Minto as Viceroy, 1905-1910'., 1905-1910.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12855-12859
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1905-1910.