Biographies.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Written accounts of the lives of individuals.
Found in 520 Collections and/or Records:
'Biographical notices of Persian statesmen and notables, September 1909, compiled by George P Churchill, Acting Oriental Secretary, His Britannic Majesty's Legation, Tehran' (Calcutta, 1910)., 1910.
File
Identifier: MS.12658
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates:
1910.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration: Foreign Department.
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Printed biographical notices of Persian statesmen and notables.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22130-22133
Scope and Contents
The collection was begun in the late nineteenth century and continued in the twentieth, being entrusted to Ian Scobie in 1944 (MS.22130, folio 2). The latest entry appears to be dated 1956. The entries are written on folio sheets. Press cuttings and other printed extracts and photographs (both originals and copies) have been added, pasted on separate sheets of the same size, to illustrate many of the entries. A number of the additional entries, and additions to existing entries, appear to be...
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie: subjects beginning A-Ga., Late 19th century-?1956.
File
Identifier: MS.22130
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The collection was begun in the late nineteenth century and continued in the twentieth, being entrusted to Ian Scobie in 1944 (MS.22130, folio 2). The latest entry appears to be dated 1956. The entries are written on folio sheets. Press cuttings and other printed extracts and photographs (both originals and copies) have been added, pasted on separate sheets of the same size, to illustrate many of the entries. A number of the additional entries, and additions to existing entries, appear to be...
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie: subjects beginning Ga-MacD., Late 19th century-?1956.
File
Identifier: MS.22131
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The collection was begun in the late nineteenth century and continued in the twentieth, being entrusted to Ian Scobie in 1944 (MS.22130, folio 2). The latest entry appears to be dated 1956. The entries are written on folio sheets. Press cuttings and other printed extracts and photographs (both originals and copies) have been added, pasted on separate sheets of the same size, to illustrate many of the entries. A number of the additional entries, and additions to existing entries, appear to be...
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie: subjects beginning MacE-Man., Late 19th century-?1956.
File
Identifier: MS.22132
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The collection was begun in the late nineteenth century and continued in the twentieth, being entrusted to Ian Scobie in 1944 (MS.22130, folio 2). The latest entry appears to be dated 1956. The entries are written on folio sheets. Press cuttings and other printed extracts and photographs (both originals and copies) have been added, pasted on separate sheets of the same size, to illustrate many of the entries. A number of the additional entries, and additions to existing entries, appear to be...
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie, subjects beginning Mar-Z., Late 19th century-?1956.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1025
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie: subjects beginning Mar-Z., Late 19th century-?1956.
File
Identifier: MS.22133
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The collection was begun in the late nineteenth century and continued in the twentieth, being entrusted to Ian Scobie in 1944 (MS.22130, folio 2). The latest entry appears to be dated 1956. The entries are written on folio sheets. Press cuttings and other printed extracts and photographs (both originals and copies) have been added, pasted on separate sheets of the same size, to illustrate many of the entries. A number of the additional entries, and additions to existing entries, appear to be...
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Biographical notices of Scottish pipers, in continuation of a series published in "Piping Times".
File
Identifier: Acc.11003
Scope and Contents
Includes additions and corrections.
Dates:
circa 1984.
Biographical papers concerning student ministers and congregations of the Secession churches that formed the United Presbyterian Church in 1847.
File
Identifier: Acc.11749
Dates:
circa 1864.
Biographical papers of and concerning the Geddes family., 1895-1969, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19266-19268
Biographical papers of members of the Elliot family of Minto., [?Circa 1858], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.12851
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Draft biography of Charles James Fox by the 2nd Earl of Minto, ?circa 1858 (folio 1); (ii) Autobiographical notes by the 2nd Baron and Baroness Dunfermline, undated (folio 58).
Dates:
[?Circa 1858], undated.
Biographical papers of various members of the Elliot family of Minto., 1858-1934, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12849-12862
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:
1858-1934, undated.
Biographical papers relating to Jan Struther, containing notes, diaries and photocopies., 1920s-1930s, 1989.
File
Identifier: Acc.13220/48
Scope and Contents
Containing: Biographical notes about Jan Struther by her daughter Jan Strutheret
Rance, 1989, intended as guidance for an eventual biographer, and used by Ysenda Maxtone Graham in writing 'The real Mrs Miniver', 2001. Diaries of Anne Meriel Talbot, of Tite Street, Chelsea, born 1899 , died unmarried 1979. Extracts from the 51 diaries kept by Anne mainly in the 1920s and 1930s. Photocopies, and some typed copies, of the several hundred pages which contain remarks or information about the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920s-1930s, 1989.
Biographies of Christian authors written by Joannes Petri de Delft, a copyist at Niewlicht., 1457-1469.
File
Identifier: MS.7140
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Contents list, written last, in a different hand from the rest of the volume (folio 1 verso), and cumulative index of names (folio 2) dated 1469. The first entry for each letter is introduced by an initial in blue or red, alternately.(ii) St Jerome, 'De Viris Illustribus' (folio 13); the text is almost the same as that printed in 'Patrologia Latina', volume xxiii, 602-720, with only a few minor differences of vocabulary and word order....
Dates:
1457-1469.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh.
Biography and fiction of Margaret Noël-Paton., [Circa 1981], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27471-27473
Biography entitled "J M Hogge: Back-Bench Maverick" by R Ian Elder.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11883
Dates:
2000.
Biography entitled "The Celebrated Captain Barclay, RN", by Ruth Jennings.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12353
Dates:
2004.
Biography of James Bonar, compiled by his son.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6536
Scope and Contents
Mostly comprising extracts from Bonar`s diary and correspondence.
Dates:
circa 1830.
Books and copies of works relating to radar, science, military history and other interests of Sir Robert Watson-Watt., 1916-1966, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9343/44-76
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Contains correspondence and papers concerning radar in World War II, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1951, and other activities and interests.
Includes photographs, articles and printed books.
Dates:
1916-1966, undated.
Bound volume entitled ‘Reminiscences of my father [by] E.B.S.’ containing a typed copy of a biography illustrated by selections from his correspondence, of Richard Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond (died 1865) compiled after his death by his daughter Elizabeth., Late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.20027
Scope and Contents
The leaves are typed on one side only: notes and additions have been written on some of the blank sides and press-cuttings have been pasted to some others.The biography is followed by leaves from some of Richard Burdon-Sanderson's published works pasted in (folio 383), copies of newspaper reports of the death in 1876 of his son Richard (folio 469), copies of press notices of Sir John S Burdon-Sanderson (folio 492), and a genealogy of the family of William Scott,...
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Brief biographies of the bishops and archbishops of St Andrews from the 10th century to 1615, by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.8
Scope and Contents
The work was compiled after 1623 (reference is made to John Selden’s edition of Eadmer`s works published in that year) and used Fordun, Boece and other historians as sources.
Dates:
After 1623.
Broadcasts, articles, and other material concerning the life and work of James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'., 1958-1975, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26094-26099
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
After her husband's death, Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell continued to encourage interest in James Leslie Mitchell's work, particularly through new editions and films, and her papers reflect this activity.
Dates:
1958-1975, undated.
Carbon copy typescript of chapters 1-5 of a biography of Robert B Cunninghame Grahame by Herbert Faulkner West.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9814
Dates:
circa 1940-1970.
Catechism, 17th century, on the contents of 'Regiam majestatem'., 17th century-1705.
File
Identifier: MS.1949
Scope and Contents
The work is in the handwriting of J Skene (apparently Sir James Skene, Lord President Curriehill), whose signature occurs on folio 6.It is preceded by an extract from ‘An historical essay showing that the crown and kingdom of Scotland is imperial and independent' (Edinburgh, 1705) by James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, in a hand of the eighteenth century (folio i); and short biographies of Scottish authors of the sixteenth century, partly taken from Thomas Dempster's 'Historia...
Dates:
17th century-1705.
Chapters 1-9 of 'David Livingstone, a reassessment with particular reference to his psyche' by Oliver Ransford., 1977.
Item
Identifier: MS.20341
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The thesis is the basis of the biography, ‘David Livingstone, the dark interior’ by Oliver Ransford and gives fuller particulars of his theory that Livingstone was cyclothymic.
Dates:
1977.