Scope and Contents The albums, with their captions and commentaries, provide a detailed account of Dr Irvine's wartime experiences and, in particular, his life in Kenya from his arrival at Chogoria in 1922 to his retirement in 1961. The albums contain photographs of the Chogoria Home, School, Mission, Church and Hospital, together with the Irvine family and other groups. Later albums cover the Presbyterian Church of East Africa's development plan, which concentrated resources on the Chogaria Hospital, and Dr...

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There are also photographs of Militia camps at Ayr attended by Sir Charles Dalrymple, Scottish and English churches and cathedrals, Oxford and Cambridge colleges, Eton, Harrow, Edinburgh, Inverness, and Stirling. With views taken in Devon, the Isle of Wight, the Lake District, and also in Europe, North America and Canada.

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There are also photographs of Militia camps at Ayr attended by Sir Charles Dalrymple, Scottish and English churches and cathedrals, Oxford and Cambridge colleges, Eton, Harrow, Edinburgh, Inverness, and Stirling. With views taken in Devon, the Isle of Wight, the Lake District, and also in Europe, North America and Canada.

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Includes diaries and photographs.

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The photograph albums consist largely of photographs taken on walking trips in Scotland and the north of England.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Peter Oliver served with Coke's Rifles during the Second World War until his death on active service in Burma in 1945. Included here are papers relating to his army career. However, he is better known as a mountaineer, and particularly as a member of two unsuccessful Everest expeditions in 1936 and 1938. Climbing regularly in the Himalayas and to a lesser extent in the Alps during the 1930s, Oliver's papers are noteworthy for his detailed climbing journals, his articles on mountaineering,...

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There are also photographs of Militia camps at Ayr attended by Sir Charles Dalrymple, Scottish and English churches and cathedrals, Oxford and Cambridge colleges, Eton, Harrow, Edinburgh, Inverness, and Stirling. With views taken in Devon, the Isle of Wight, the Lake District, and also in Europe, North America and Canada.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...

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Items 39 and 45 not received by the National Library of Scotland.

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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Includes diaries and photographs.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Deaf Action is a deaf-led charity which has been operating in Edinburgh since 1835. The Deaf and Dumb Congregation in Edinburgh began meeting together in 1830 following the establishment in the city of schools for deaf children. Braidwood’s Academy for the Deaf was established in 1760 and the Edinburgh Institution [later the Edinburgh Royal Institution] for the Deaf and Dumb in 1810.The Edinburgh Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Society was established in 1835 to assist deaf people in...

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Loose photographs and a photograph album of William Summers Sutherland, and his wife Annabella, c.1890-1920.

Loose photographs include studio portraits taken in Scotland, apparently of members of the family of Annabella Sutherland, and later images of Kalimpong, c.1890-1920. The album records a visit to Bhutan made by William Summers Sutherland, c.1917-1919.

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There are here records relating to two members of the Ladies Scottish Climbing Club - Lucy Smith and Pat Bell.

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Newspaper cuttings documenting the activities and public engagements of Pipe Major William Ross, covering the years of ca. 1910-1929. With photographs of family members and friends, partly annotated.

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Newspaper cuttings documenting Pipe Major William Ross's activities, or of bagpiping interest, ca. 1928-1935. With a large section of photographs of family members and friends and some scenery.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Presentation albums, some in special bindings, notebooks, papers, formal addresses and other documents, and a few letters, 1944-1968, of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan. Almost all the material is concerned with Rowallan's period as Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire (1945-1959), and many of the items were presented to him during Commonwealth tours. Included with the collection is one certificate, 1968, presented to Gwen Mervyn, Lady Rowallan...

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1. Album consisting largely of press-cuttings and printed notices of lectures by John P. Ritchie on ornithology, his film of the evacuation of Saint Kilda, 1930, and related letters, 1923-1974

2. Album of photographs of scenes on Saint Kilda and its bird life especially eagles in August 1930, of John P. Ritchie at a lecture, his family and social life, 1923-1966, undated.