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Gibraltar. Europe - United Kingdom. Dependent state. Longitude: -5.3500. Latitude: 36.1333.

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Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Journal and sketches of Gibraltar, Malta and Italy., 1871.

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Identifier: Acc.13827/242
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1871.

Photographs, October 1985, of a visit by David Steel to Gibraltar, with a related letter, 5 March 1986., 1985-1986.

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Identifier: Acc.13477/235
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection comprises school papers, 1943-1959, and material relating to his time at Edinburgh University, 1957-1962; files relating to elections, 1961-circa 1990s; political papers, 1954-1981, mainly concerning constituency politics; manuscript diary of the Lib-Lab Pact, 1977-1978; files relating to his involvement in the Scottish Constitutional Convention, 1988-1998, including minutes of meetings and related correspondence; files relating to Scottish politics, 1992-1999, including...
Dates: 1985-1986.

Travel journal of John Jackson of a tour to the Continent., 1891-1892

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Identifier: MS.23627
Scope and Contents

John Jackson and his family left Edinburgh on 31 October for Glasgow to sail on the S.S. Columbia bound for Gibraltar. They travelled to Genoa, Leghorn (Livorno), Castellammare, Naples, Pompeii and Rome where they stayed for two months visiting Roman antiquities. They journeyed to Siena, and Florence, where the narrative stops on 16 March 1892.

Dates: 1891-1892