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The material is chiefly accounts, tacks and papers concerning grass sales.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The material is chiefly accounts, tacks and papers concerning grass sales.

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Included are papers concerning customs, excise and other taxation, with some material about general finance and banks. The subjects include the duties on coal and salt, the laws governing distilling, the land-tax, the issue of notes and coin, and the administration of the Revenue offices.

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The material is chiefly accounts, tacks and papers concerning grass sales.

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Lord Milton was a director from the foundation of the Bank. Apart from the routine administration of the Bank, important subjects include relations with the Bank of England and the Glasgow and other provincial banks, payments to the army, and the circulation of bank-notes.

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Lord Milton was a director from the foundation of the Bank. Apart from the routine administration of the Bank, important subjects include relations with the Bank of England and the Glasgow and other provincial banks, payments to the army, and the circulation of bank-notes.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Lord Milton was a director from the foundation of the Bank. Apart from the routine administration of the Bank, important subjects include relations with the Bank of England and the Glasgow and other provincial banks, payments to the army, and the circulation of bank-notes.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Lord Milton was a director from the foundation of the Bank. Apart from the routine administration of the Bank, important subjects include relations with the Bank of England and the Glasgow and other provincial banks, payments to the army, and the circulation of bank-notes.

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The notes include excerpts from earlier proceedings relating to these subjects, notes on the workings of comparable federal systems, especially in Germany, Austria, and Fiji, newsaper comments, and memorials from interested organisations.

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Lord Milton was the effective founder of the British Linen Company and its Deputy-Governor.

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The file contains leaflets advertising Engender Dialogues; papers relating to the organisation of Engender Dialogues and related papers connected with the Engender Research working group on publications, including the 'Gender Audit' reports.

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Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Papers relating to the 4th Earl of Minto's refusal to sign the Punjab colonisation bill, 1906-1907, with a memorandum for Lord Morley on legislation required for the Punjab Canal Colonies, 1910 (folio 1); (ii) Memoranda concerning legal training for junior members of the Indian Civil Service, 1907, and universal primary education in India, 1910, and a report on the work of the Indian Students' Department in London, 1913 (folio 18); (iii) Papers concerning...

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Minutes of three meetings of the 'Radical Scotland' Women's Group (January-February 1986), with accompanying annotated drafts of recruitment circular and ideas for feminist cartoons for the magazine.

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The Saint George Quartet Club was founded in 1874 to encourage the performance and appreciation of chamber music, principally for strings. The Club had a large repertoire and seems generally to have kept abreast of developments in music until at least the First World War. Around 1938 it was taken over by the Edinburgh Society of Musicians.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703. Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School. His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School. His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...

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The papers include administrative papers of Engender, a national research and campaigning membership organisation for women in Scotland, and antecedent groups and conferences including the Scottish Convention on Women.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School. His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...

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These papers relate to the period spent by Johnston as Colonel Commdandant of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical engineers. This has been placed within his military career despite most of the material dating beyond his active military service. This is due to it still being a military appointment albeit an honorary position and does not fit within his civilian career.