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<div>[[File:Fifoot-1.jpg |border | 300 px | right | thumb | Dick Fifoot (1931-2011), University Librarian]]<br />
Erik Richard Sidney Fifoot (known as Dick) was born on 14 June 1925 in Oxfordshire. He attended Berkhamsted School and then the University of Oxford, graduating MA in Jurisprudence. He served as a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards during WW2.<br />
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He began his career at the library of the University of Leeds as Assistant Librarian in 1950. He rose to Sub-Librarian in 1952 and served until 1958 when he took up the post of Deputy Librarian of the University of Nottingham.<br />
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In 1960 he became Librarian of the University of Edinburgh, remaining there until 1979. During his tenure, he oversaw the relocation of the University's Library from Old College to its current location in George Square. He was then appointed Bodley's Librarian in Oxford where he served from 1 January 1980 until his retirement in 1981. Richard also held a Professorial Fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford from 1979.<br />
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He served as Chair of the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries, 1979-1981, and as a member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 1979-1983.<br />
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Richard married Jean Meriel Stuart Thain in Oxford on 2 September 1949. He died on 24 June 1992.<br />
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<div>[[File:Fifoot-1.jpg |border | 300 px | right | thumb | 'Dick' Fifoot (1931-2011), University Librarian]]<br />
Erik Richard Sidney Fifoot (known as Dick) was born on 14 June 1925 in Oxfordshire. He attended Berkhamsted School and then the University of Oxford, graduating MA in Jurisprudence. He served as a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards during WW2.<br />
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He began his career at the library of the University of Leeds as Assistant Librarian in 1950. He rose to Sub-Librarian in 1952 and served until 1958 when he took up the post of Deputy Librarian of the University of Nottingham.<br />
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In 1960 he became Librarian of the University of Edinburgh, remaining there until 1979. During his tenure, he oversaw the relocation of the University's Library from Old College to its current location in George Square. He was then appointed Bodley's Librarian in Oxford where he served from 1 January 1980 until his retirement in 1981. Richard also held a Professorial Fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford from 1979.<br />
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He served as Chair of the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries, 1979-1981, and as a member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 1979-1983.<br />
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Richard married Jean Meriel Stuart Thain in Oxford on 2 September 1949. He died on 24 June 1992.<br />
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<div>[[File:Ersfifoot.jpg |border | 300 px | right | thumb | 'Dick' Fifoot (1931-2011), University Librarian]]<br />
Erik Richard Sidney Fifoot (known as Dick) was born on 14 June 1925 in Oxfordshire. He attended Berkhamsted School and then the University of Oxford, graduating MA in Jurisprudence. He served as a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards during WW2.<br />
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He began his career at the library of the University of Leeds as Assistant Librarian in 1950. He rose to Sub-Librarian in 1952 and served until 1958 when he took up the post of Deputy Librarian of the University of Nottingham.<br />
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In 1960 he became Librarian of the University of Edinburgh, remaining there until 1979. During his tenure, he oversaw the relocation of the University's Library from Old College to its current location in George Square. He was then appointed Bodley's Librarian in Oxford where he served from 1 January 1980 until his retirement in 1981. Richard also held a Professorial Fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford from 1979.<br />
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He served as Chair of the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries, 1979-1981, and as a member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 1979-1983.<br />
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Richard married Jean Meriel Stuart Thain in Oxford on 2 September 1949. He died on 24 June 1992.<br />
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<div>[[File:Ersfifoot.jpg |border | 300 px | right | thumb | 'Dick' Fifoot (1931-2011), University Librarian]]<br />
Erik Richard Sidney Fifoot (known as Dick) was born on 14 June 1925 in Oxfordshire. He attended Berkhamsted School and then the University of Oxford, graduating MA in Jurisprudence. He served as a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards during WW2.<br />
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He began his career at the library of the University of Leeds as Assistant Librarian in 1950. He rose to Sub-Librarian in 1952 and served until 1958 when he took up the post of Deputy Librarian of the University of Nottingham.<br />
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In 1960 he became Librarian of the University of Edinburgh, remaining there until 1979. During his tenure, he oversaw the relocation of the University's Library from Old College to its current location in George Square. He was then appointed Bodley's Librarian in Oxford where he served from 1 January 1980 until his retirement in 1981. Richard also held a Professorial Fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford from 1979.<br />
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He served as Chair of the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries, 1979-1981, and as a member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 1979-1983.<br />
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Richard married Jean Meriel Stuart Thain in Oxford on 2 September 1949. He died on 24 June 1992.<br />
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<div>Published sources are often useful background reading before 'plunging' into in-depth, archives-based research. The following list is not exhaustive but is being added to as we identify useful texts to direct people towards.<br />
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Some have begun to appear online at the [http://www.archive.org/ Internet Archive] and links are provided to these. Others can be consulted here and links are given to the main Library Catalogue.<br />
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== Institutional Histories ==<br />
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* <u>History of the University of Edinburgh, from 1580 to 1646 : to which is prefixed the charter granted to the college by James VI of Scotland, in 1582</u> ([http://archive.org/details/historyuniversi00craugoog View]) - Thomas Craufurd (1808)<br />
* <u>The History of the University of Edinburgh: Chiefly Compiled from Original Papers and Records ... </u> ([http://archive.org/details/historyuniversi02bowegoog View]) - Alexander Bower (1830)<br />
* <u>History of the University of Edinburgh from its foundation</u> ([http://archive.org/details/historyofunivers01dalzuoft Volume 1] :: [http://archive.org/details/historyofunivers02dalzuoft Volume 2]) - Andrew Dalzel (1862)<br />
* <u>The story of the University of Edinburgh during its first three hundred years</u> ([http://archive.org/details/storyuniversity07grangoog Volume 1] :: [http://archive.org/details/storyuniversity06grangoog Volume 2]) - Sir Alexander Grant<br />''covers the period 1583-1883''<br />
* <u>Edinburgh University, A Sketch of its Life for 300 Years</u> ([http://archive.org/details/edinburghuniver00univgoog View]) (1884)<br />
* <u>University of Edinburgh : Charters, statutes, and acts of the Town council and the Senatus, 1583-1858</u> (1937) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21126035010002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>History of the University of Edinburgh, 1883-1933</u> - Sir Arthur Logan Turner (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2177621630002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>A Short History of the University of Edinburgh, 1556-1889</u> - David Bayne Horn (1967) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21122390150002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Four Centuries: Edinburgh University Life, 1583-1983</u> - Gordon Donaldson, Ed. (1983) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21130310890002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>The University of Edinburgh : an illustrated history</u> - Anderson, Lynch &amp; Phillipson (2003) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21127331050002466 local copies])<br />
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== Subject areas, Divisions, Departments ==<br />
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* <u>Britain's first Chair of Agriculture at the University of Edinburgh,1790-1990 : a history of the Chair founded by William Johnstone Pulteney</u> - Fleming &amp; Robertson (1990) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21117803020002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Engineering at Edinburgh University : a short history, 1673-1983</u> - Ronald M. Birse (1983) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21130318830002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Science at the University of Edinburgh 1583-1993 : an illustrated history to mark the centenary of the Faculty of Science and Engineering 1893-1993</u> - Ronald M. Birse (1994) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2182449610002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Edinburgh University Library 1580-1980</u> - Guild &amp; Law, Eds. (1982) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21130386260002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>The Polish School of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh : an album</u> - Wiktor Tomaszewski (1983) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21130445780002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Fifty years of the Polish School of Medicine, the University of Edinburgh : 1941-1991 ; jubilee publication</u> - Wiktor Tomaszewski (1992) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2199447350002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Moray House and professional education : papers to mark the college's 150th anniversary</u> - Gordon Kirk (1985) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21108926180002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>New College Edinburgh: A Centenary History</u> - Hugh Watt and A. Mitchell Turner (1946) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2176716720002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Edinburgh University Library : an account of its origin with a description of its rarer books and manuscripts</u> - David Cuthbertson (1910) ([http://archive.org/details/cu31924029534975 View])<br />
* <u>Revelations of a library life, 1876-1922 : including recollections of Edinburgh professors; student life, past and present, with many personal adventures and anecdotes</u> - David Cuthbertson (1923) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2183344700002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>The History of Veterinary Education in Edinburgh</u> - Alastair A. Macdonald and Colin M. Warwick (2023) (not available online - [https://discovered.ed.ac.uk/permalink/44UOE_INST/7g3mt6/alma9925122605002466 local copies])<br />
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== People ==<br />
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* <u>A catalogue of the graduates in the faculties of arts, divinity, and law, of the University of Edinburgh since its foundation</u> (1858) ([http://archive.org/details/catalogueofgradu00bann View])<br />''a list of all graduates (except Medicine), 1587-1858''<br />
* <u>Alphabetical list of graduates of the University of Edinburgh from 1859 to 1888 (both years included) with historical appendix (including present and past office bearers) and separate lists of honorary graduates and graduates with honours</u> (1889) ([http://archive.org/details/alphabeticallist00univrich View])<br />''a list of all graduates, 1859-1888 with various appendices''<br />
* <u>Nomina Eorum Qui Gradum Medicinæ Doctoris in Academia Jacobi Sexti Scoturum Regis .... (Graduates in Medicine 1705-1845)</u> (1846) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2193293200002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>List of Graduates in Medicine in the University of Edinburgh 1705-1866</u> (1867) ([https://archive.org/details/b21466373 View])<br />
* <u>Quasi cursores; portraits of the high officers and professors of the University of Edinburgh at its tercentenary festival</u> ([http://archive.org/details/quasicursorespor00holeuoft View]) - William Hole (1884)<br />
* <u>Medical women; a thesis and a history</u> - Sophia Jex-Blake (1886) ([http://archive.org/details/medicalwomenthes00jexb View])<br />''the battle for women's right to attend and graduate''<br />
* <u>Roll of honour, 1914-1919</u> (1921) ([http://archive.org/details/rollofhonour191400univuoft View])<br />''Roll of the fallen and of war service - staff, students, alumni''<br />
* <u>Roll of Honour 1939-1945</u> (2015) ([https://www.uega.co.uk/copy-of-volume-18-chalmer-s-applica View]) <br />''Compiled and hosted by the Graduates' Association''<br />
* <u>The University Portraits</u>, with biographies (1957 &amp; 1986) (not available online - local copies: [http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=57799 Vol. 1], [http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=201727 Vol. 2]<br />
* <u>Edinburgh University worthies : biographies of selected pre-1901 alumni and staff of the University of Edinburgh</u> (1999) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2186396370002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Medical education in the Age of Improvement : Edinburgh students and apprentices, 1760-1826</u> - Lisa Rosner (1991) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2192741740002466 local copies])<br />
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== Campus and Buildings ==<br />
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* <u>The past hundred years : the buildings of the University of Edinburgh</u> - Charles H. Stewart (1973) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2176831420002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>The Building of Old College: Adam, Playfair and the University of Edinburgh</u> - Andrew Fraser (1989) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21125780490002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Saint Cecilia's Hall in the Niddry Wynd; a chapter in the history of the music of the past in Edinburgh</u> - David Fraser Harris (1899) ([http://archive.org/details/saintceciliashal00harruoft View]) ''See also the 1984 reprint with foreward by Peter Williams''<br />
* <u>The Temple of Harmony: A New Architectural History of St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh</u> - Joe Rock, Martin Hillman &amp; Antonia J Bunch (2011) in [http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E1350752409000193 Architectural Heritage, Volume 20, Page 55-74]<br />
* <u>University of Edinburgh : walking tours of university buildings</u> - Andrew G. Fraser (1983) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2181658030002466 local copies])<br />
*''The development of King's Buildings campus is covered in some detail in <u>Science at the University of Edinburgh 1583-1993</u> (see above)''<br />
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== Student Life, Clubs and Societies ==<br />
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* <u>College echoes : sketches and scenes of university life at Edinburgh</u> - David Cuthbertson (1890) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21103916300002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>The Story of Edinburgh University Athletic Club</u> - C. M. Usher (1966) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21109142760002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Edinburgh University Tea Club 1920-45</u> - Clara Ashworth (1946) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21116958450002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Atlanta's Garland, Being the Book of Edinburgh University Women's Union</u> - Lorraine E. Smith (Ed.) (1926) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21126572980002466 local copies])<br />
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Since its inception in 1582, the university as it was and as it is today, is linked by one continual thread – people. Our success, achievements and development are a result of successive generations of students, academics and other staff who have come together in a myriad of combinations. Some of these people are well-known, some less so; others are now completely obscured to us. The history of the University is their story. <br />
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<div>The poet Alexander Anderson (1845-1909) was a Librarian of Edinburgh University. <br />
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== Early Life ==<br />
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Anderson was born on 30th April 1845 at Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to nearby Crocketford where his father James worked as a gardener at Brooklands House, Crocketford. Anderson attended Crocketford school and later assisted his father in his gardening work.<br />
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== As Surfaceman ==<br />
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The family returned to Kirkconnel when Alexander was sixteen. He worked for two years in the flagstone quarry at Old Kello, before beginning work as a surfaceman or platelayer for the Glasgow and South-Western Railway Company. At the age of 19, he began writing poetry, publishing under the pseudonym of 'surfaceman'. In 1870 his verse began to appear in the Dundee journal ''The People's Friend'', and in 1873 the Dundee Advertiser published his first book A Song of Labour and other Poems in a run of 1000 which sold out in a fortnight. Three further volumes followed: ''Two Angels'' (1875), ''Songs of the Rail'' (1878), and ''Ballads and Sonnets'' (1879).<br />
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== As Librarian ==<br />
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Anderson was a committed autodidact, spending all his spare time on self-culture and mastering several languages. In 1880 he was persuaded to apply for the post of Assistant Librarian of [[Library|Edinburgh University Library]]. Despite never having entered a library before his interview, he was selected. His commitment to his new post soon won him the affection of colleagues, students and academics. He briefly left the Library in 1885 when he was appointed Secretary to the Philosophical Institution, a role brought him into contact with many prominent literary figures. He soon became dissatisfied with the work, however, desiring more contact with ordinary readers. In 1888 he resigned and returned to his Library position. In 1890 he was appointed Chief Librarian, remaining in post until his death in 1909.<br />
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*Crocketford Community Initiative [[http://www.crocketford.org/villhall.html], accessed 17 November 2014] <br />
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Erik Richard Sidney Fifoot (known as Dick) was born on 14 June 1925 in Oxfordshire. He attended Berkhamsted School and then the University of Oxford, graduating MA in Jurisprudence. He served as a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards during WW2.<br />
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He began his career at the library of the University of Leeds as Assistant Librarian in 1950. He rose to Sub-Librarian in 1952 and served until 1958 when he took up the post of Deputy Librarian of the University of Nottingham.<br />
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In 1960 he became Librarian of the University of Edinburgh, remaining there until 1979. During his tenure, he oversaw the relocation of the University's Library from Old College to its current location in George Square. He was then appointed Bodley's Librarian in Oxford where he served from 1 January 1980 until his retirement in 1981. Richard also held a Professorial Fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford from 1979.<br />
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He served as Chair of the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries, 1979-1981, and as a member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 1979-1983.<br />
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Richard married Jean Meriel Stuart Thain in Oxford on 2 September 1949. He died on 24 June 1992.<br />
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<div>Erik Richard Sidney Fifoot (known as Dick) was born on 14 June 1925 in Oxfordshire. He attended Berkhamsted School and then the University of Oxford, graduating MA in Jurisprudence. He served as a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards during WW2.<br />
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He began his career at the library of the University of Leeds as Assistant Librarian in 1950. He rose to Sub-Librarian in 1952 and served until 1958 when he took up the post of Deputy Librarian of the University of Nottingham.<br />
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In 1960 he became Librarian of the University of Edinburgh, remaining there until 1979. During his tenure, he oversaw the relocation of the University's Library from Old College to its current location in George Square. He was then appointed Bodley's Librarian in Oxford where he served from 1 January 1980 until his retirement in 1981. Richard also held a Professorial Fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford from 1979.<br />
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He served as Chair of the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries, 1979-1981, and as a member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 1979-1983.<br />
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Richard married Jean Meriel Stuart Thain in Oxford on 2 September 1949. He died on 24 June 1992.<br />
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<div>The Main Library is the largest of Edinburgh University's Libraries. It holds the primary collections in arts, humanities, social sciences, medicine and informatics. It also houses the [[Library]]'s general collections of books and periodicals, older books in all subjects, most of the special collections of rare books and manuscripts, the University archives and the Lothian Health Service Archive.<br />
<br />
== Planning ==<br />
<br />
By the mid-20th century, it had become evident that Library accommodation within the [[Old College]] complex was inadequate for the future needs of the university. In 1949 the Library Committee began to look into what might be needed for an entirely new building. Plans for a new library were soon incorporated into the massive redevelopment of Edinburgh University’s [[Faculty of Arts|Arts Faculty]] centered on [[George Square]], originally a Georgian residential square with a large central garden. A layout was devised for the new Arts campus by architect [[Sir Basil Urwin Spence (1907-1976)]] in 1955, and, in the same year, [[Percy Edwin Alan Johnson-Marshall (1915-1993)|Percy Johnson-Marshall (1915-1993)]] was appointed as Planning Consultant with responsibility for the overall layout, designation of sites, harmonisation of finishes, landscaping and external works. <br />
<br />
== Design ==<br />
<br />
Sir Basil Spence was nominated as the architect for the proposed new library by the [[Principal]] of the University, [[Sir Edward Victor Appleton (1892-1965)]], in 1954. The library was to be the very hub of Spence’s campus scheme, occupying a one-acre site on the south-west corner of George Square. It would be several years, however, before an official library commission was awarded and design work could get underway, as these depended upon the award of a capital grant from the University Grants Committee and the building of replacements for the student hostels that occupied the library site.<br />
<br />
The new Library was designed by Spence’s Edinburgh office of Spence, Glover & Ferguson. This was the firm’s first library building, and their first encounter with the unique challenges of library design: provision of sufficient storage space for books which entails a massive floor loading; adequate lighting for readers but which presents no threat of heat-damage to books; the need for large open floor spaces, and easy access to stacks. These requirements were met through reinforced concrete construction and reliance on mechanical services: heating, lighting, air conditioning and extraction systems.<br />
<br />
The design process was extremely rigorous, involving extensive researching into existing library structures, and close consultation with the university librarian [[Fifoot, Erik Richard Sidney (1925-1992)|Erik Richard Sidney Fifoot (1925-1992)]] as the team sought to provide space for 2,500 readers, 114 staff and 2 million books.<br />
<br />
Spence did not personally produce a design for the library. His partner [[John Hardie Glover (1913-1994)]] was put in charge of the job and appointed [[Andrew Merrylees (1933- )]] as project architect. Merrylees had developed a sketch plan by February 1963 which was approved by the University Grants Committee in June of the same year. Glover, however, was unhappy with the proportions of the front elevation. He consulted with Spence who devised a suspended fascia across the entrance to amend the proportions.<br />
<br />
== Building ==<br />
<br />
Planning consent was granted in November 1964, and construction began working with a budget of £1,700,000, a considerable sum for the time. When completed in August 1967, the Library was the largest building of its type in Britain. It was met with immediate acclaim, earning a RIBA award in 1968 and a Civic Trust Commendation in 1969. Today it is recognized as one of the major modernist works in Scotland is a category A listed building. The experience gained by Spence’s team in building the Main Library was put to further use in their designs for Newcastle Central Library, University College Dublin Library, the Sidney Jones Library (Liverpool University) and the Cameron Small Library (Heriot Watt University).<br />
<br />
== Redevelopment ==<br />
<br />
Between 2006 and 2012, a major redevelopment of the Main Library was carried out by the architects [[Lewis and Hickey]], preserving all essential details of the Spence team’s design but creating a more open and flexible study space in response to changing student and research needs. This also created a new space for the library’s historic collections in the [[Centre for Research Collections]].<br />
<br />
== Archives ==<br />
<br />
*[[George Square Redevelopment]]<br />
*[[Main Library: Architectural and Structural Drawings]]<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
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*Clive B. Fenton, 'The Library Designs of Sir Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson', ''Architectural Heritage'', 24.1 (2013), 87-102.<br />
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<div>The Main Library is the largest of Edinburgh University's Libraries. It holds the primary collections in arts, humanities, social sciences, medicine and informatics. It also houses the [[Library]]'s general collections of books and periodicals, older books in all subjects, most of the special collections of rare books and manuscripts, the University archives and the Lothian Health Service Archive.<br />
<br />
== Planning ==<br />
<br />
By the mid-20th century, it had become evident that Library accommodation within the [[Old College]] complex was inadequate for the future needs of the university. In 1949 the Library Committee began to look into what might be needed for an entirely new building. Plans for a new library were soon incorporated into the massive redevelopment of Edinburgh University’s [[Faculty of Arts|Arts Faculty]] centered on [[George Square]], originally a Georgian residential square with a large central garden. A layout was devised for the new Arts campus by architect [[Sir Basil Urwin Spence (1907-1976)]] in 1955, and, in the same year, [[Percy Edwin Alan Johnson-Marshall (1915-1993)|Percy Johnson-Marshall (1915-1993)]] was appointed as Planning Consultant with responsibility for the overall layout, designation of sites, harmonisation of finishes, landscaping and external works. <br />
<br />
== Design ==<br />
<br />
Sir Basil Spence was nominated as the architect for the proposed new library by the [[Principal]] of the University, [[Sir Edward Victor Appleton (1892-1965)]], in 1954. The library was to be the very hub of Spence’s campus scheme, occupying a one-acre site on the south-west corner of George Square. It would be several years, however, before an official library commission was awarded and design work could get underway, as these depended upon the award of a capital grant from the University Grants Committee and the building of replacements for the student hostels that occupied the library site.<br />
<br />
The new Library was designed by Spence’s Edinburgh office of Spence, Glover & Ferguson. This was the firm’s first library building, and their first encounter with the unique challenges of library design: provision of sufficient storage space for books which entails a massive floor loading; adequate lighting for readers but which presents no threat of heat-damage to books; the need for large open floor spaces, and easy access to stacks. These requirements were met through reinforced concrete construction and reliance on mechanical services: heating, lighting, air conditioning and extraction systems.<br />
<br />
The design process was extremely rigorous, involving extensive researching into existing library structures, and close consultation with the university librarian [[Fifoot, Erik Richard Sidney, 1925-1992|Erik Richard Sidney Fifoot (1925-1992)]] as the team sought to provide space for 2,500 readers, 114 staff and 2 million books.<br />
<br />
Spence did not personally produce a design for the library. His partner [[John Hardie Glover (1913-1994)]] was put in charge of the job and appointed [[Andrew Merrylees (1933- )]] as project architect. Merrylees had developed a sketch plan by February 1963 which was approved by the University Grants Committee in June of the same year. Glover, however, was unhappy with the proportions of the front elevation. He consulted with Spence who devised a suspended fascia across the entrance to amend the proportions.<br />
<br />
== Building ==<br />
<br />
Planning consent was granted in November 1964, and construction began working with a budget of £1,700,000, a considerable sum for the time. When completed in August 1967, the Library was the largest building of its type in Britain. It was met with immediate acclaim, earning a RIBA award in 1968 and a Civic Trust Commendation in 1969. Today it is recognized as one of the major modernist works in Scotland is a category A listed building. The experience gained by Spence’s team in building the Main Library was put to further use in their designs for Newcastle Central Library, University College Dublin Library, the Sidney Jones Library (Liverpool University) and the Cameron Small Library (Heriot Watt University).<br />
<br />
== Redevelopment ==<br />
<br />
Between 2006 and 2012, a major redevelopment of the Main Library was carried out by the architects [[Lewis and Hickey]], preserving all essential details of the Spence team’s design but creating a more open and flexible study space in response to changing student and research needs. This also created a new space for the library’s historic collections in the [[Centre for Research Collections]].<br />
<br />
== Archives ==<br />
<br />
*[[George Square Redevelopment]]<br />
*[[Main Library: Architectural and Structural Drawings]]<br />
<br />
== Sources ==<br />
<br />
*Clive B. Fenton, 'The Library Designs of Sir Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson', ''Architectural Heritage'', 24.1 (2013), 87-102.<br />
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<hr />
<div>The Main Library is the largest of Edinburgh University's Libraries. It holds the primary collections in arts, humanities, social sciences, medicine and informatics. It also houses the [[Library]]'s general collections of books and periodicals, older books in all subjects, most of the special collections of rare books and manuscripts, the University archives and the Lothian Health Service Archive.<br />
<br />
== Planning ==<br />
<br />
By the mid-20th century, it had become evident that Library accommodation within the [[Old College]] complex was inadequate for the future needs of the university. In 1949 the Library Committee began to look into what might be needed for an entirely new building. Plans for a new library were soon incorporated into the massive redevelopment of Edinburgh University’s [[Faculty of Arts|Arts Faculty]] centered on [[George Square]], originally a Georgian residential square with a large central garden. A layout was devised for the new Arts campus by architect [[Sir Basil Urwin Spence (1907-1976)]] in 1955, and, in the same year, [[Percy Edwin Alan Johnson-Marshall (1915-1993)|Percy Johnson-Marshall (1915-1993)]] was appointed as Planning Consultant with responsibility for the overall layout, designation of sites, harmonisation of finishes, landscaping and external works. <br />
<br />
== Design ==<br />
<br />
Sir Basil Spence was nominated as the architect for the proposed new library by the [[Principal]] of the University, [[Sir Edward Victor Appleton (1892-1965)]], in 1954. The library was to be the very hub of Spence’s campus scheme, occupying a one-acre site on the south-west corner of George Square. It would be several years, however, before an official library commission was awarded and design work could get underway, as these depended upon the award of a capital grant from the University Grants Committee and the building of replacements for the student hostels that occupied the library site.<br />
<br />
The new Library was designed by Spence’s Edinburgh office of Spence, Glover & Ferguson. This was the firm’s first library building, and their first encounter with the unique challenges of library design: provision of sufficient storage space for books which entails a massive floor loading; adequate lighting for readers but which presents no threat of heat-damage to books; the need for large open floor spaces, and easy access to stacks. These requirements were met through reinforced concrete construction and reliance on mechanical services: heating, lighting, air conditioning and extraction systems.<br />
<br />
The design process was extremely rigorous, involving extensive researching into existing library structures, and close consultation with the university librarian [[Erik Richard Sidney Fifoot (1925-1992)|Fifoot, Erik Richard Sidney, 1925-1992]] as the team sought to provide space for 2,500 readers, 114 staff and 2 million books.<br />
<br />
Spence did not personally produce a design for the library. His partner [[John Hardie Glover (1913-1994)]] was put in charge of the job and appointed [[Andrew Merrylees (1933- )]] as project architect. Merrylees had developed a sketch plan by February 1963 which was approved by the University Grants Committee in June of the same year. Glover, however, was unhappy with the proportions of the front elevation. He consulted with Spence who devised a suspended fascia across the entrance to amend the proportions.<br />
<br />
== Building ==<br />
<br />
Planning consent was granted in November 1964, and construction began working with a budget of £1,700,000, a considerable sum for the time. When completed in August 1967, the Library was the largest building of its type in Britain. It was met with immediate acclaim, earning a RIBA award in 1968 and a Civic Trust Commendation in 1969. Today it is recognized as one of the major modernist works in Scotland is a category A listed building. The experience gained by Spence’s team in building the Main Library was put to further use in their designs for Newcastle Central Library, University College Dublin Library, the Sidney Jones Library (Liverpool University) and the Cameron Small Library (Heriot Watt University).<br />
<br />
== Redevelopment ==<br />
<br />
Between 2006 and 2012, a major redevelopment of the Main Library was carried out by the architects [[Lewis and Hickey]], preserving all essential details of the Spence team’s design but creating a more open and flexible study space in response to changing student and research needs. This also created a new space for the library’s historic collections in the [[Centre for Research Collections]].<br />
<br />
== Archives ==<br />
<br />
*[[George Square Redevelopment]]<br />
*[[Main Library: Architectural and Structural Drawings]]<br />
<br />
== Sources ==<br />
<br />
*Clive B. Fenton, 'The Library Designs of Sir Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson', ''Architectural Heritage'', 24.1 (2013), 87-102.<br />
[[Category:Campus]]</div>GButtarshttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Bibliography_of_Published_Sources&diff=7396Bibliography of Published Sources2020-11-18T07:13:53Z<p>GButtars: </p>
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<div>Published sources are often useful background reading before 'plunging' into in-depth, archives-based research. The following list is not exhaustive but is being added to as we identify useful texts to direct people towards.<br />
<br />
Some have begun to appear online at the [http://www.archive.org/ Internet Archive] and links are provided to these. Others can be consulted here and links are given to the main Library Catalogue.<br />
<br />
== Institutional Histories ==<br />
<br />
* <u>History of the University of Edinburgh, from 1580 to 1646 : to which is prefixed the charter granted to the college by James VI of Scotland, in 1582</u> ([http://archive.org/details/historyuniversi00craugoog View]) - Thomas Craufurd (1808)<br />
* <u>The History of the University of Edinburgh: Chiefly Compiled from Original Papers and Records ... </u> ([http://archive.org/details/historyuniversi02bowegoog View]) - Alexander Bower (1830)<br />
* <u>History of the University of Edinburgh from its foundation</u> ([http://archive.org/details/historyofunivers01dalzuoft Volume 1] :: [http://archive.org/details/historyofunivers02dalzuoft Volume 2]) - Andrew Dalzel (1862)<br />
* <u>The story of the University of Edinburgh during its first three hundred years</u> ([http://archive.org/details/storyuniversity07grangoog Volume 1] :: [http://archive.org/details/storyuniversity06grangoog Volume 2]) - Sir Alexander Grant<br />''covers the period 1583-1883''<br />
* <u>Edinburgh University, A Sketch of its Life for 300 Years</u> ([http://archive.org/details/edinburghuniver00univgoog View]) (1884)<br />
* <u>University of Edinburgh : Charters, statutes, and acts of the Town council and the Senatus, 1583-1858</u> (1937) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21126035010002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>History of the University of Edinburgh, 1883-1933</u> - Sir Arthur Logan Turner (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2177621630002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>A Short History of the University of Edinburgh, 1556-1889</u> - David Bayne Horn (1967) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21122390150002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Four Centuries: Edinburgh University Life, 1583-1983</u> - Gordon Donaldson, Ed. (1983) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21130310890002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>The University of Edinburgh : an illustrated history</u> - Anderson, Lynch &amp; Phillipson (2003) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21127331050002466 local copies])<br />
<br />
== Subject areas, Divisions, Departments ==<br />
<br />
* <u>Britain's first Chair of Agriculture at the University of Edinburgh,1790-1990 : a history of the Chair founded by William Johnstone Pulteney</u> - Fleming &amp; Robertson (1990) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21117803020002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Engineering at Edinburgh University : a short history, 1673-1983</u> - Ronald M. Birse (1983) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21130318830002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Science at the University of Edinburgh 1583-1993 : an illustrated history to mark the centenary of the Faculty of Science and Engineering 1893-1993</u> - Ronald M. Birse (1994) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2182449610002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Edinburgh University Library 1580-1980</u> - Guild &amp; Law, Eds. (1982) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21130386260002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>The Polish School of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh : an album</u> - Wiktor Tomaszewski (1983) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21130445780002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Fifty years of the Polish School of Medicine, the University of Edinburgh : 1941-1991 ; jubilee publication</u> - Wiktor Tomaszewski (1992) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2199447350002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Moray House and professional education : papers to mark the college's 150th anniversary</u> - Gordon Kirk (1985) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21108926180002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>New College Edinburgh: A Centenary History</u> - Hugh Watt and A. Mitchell Turner (1946) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2176716720002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Edinburgh University Library : an account of its origin with a description of its rarer books and manuscripts</u> - David Cuthbertson (1910) ([http://archive.org/details/cu31924029534975 View])<br />
* <u>Revelations of a library life, 1876-1922 : including recollections of Edinburgh professors; student life, past and present, with many personal adventures and anecdotes</u> - David Cuthbertson (1923) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2183344700002466 local copies])<br />
<br />
== People ==<br />
<br />
* <u>A catalogue of the graduates in the faculties of arts, divinity, and law, of the University of Edinburgh since its foundation</u> (1858) ([http://archive.org/details/catalogueofgradu00bann View])<br />''a list of all graduates (except Medicine), 1587-1858''<br />
* <u>Alphabetical list of graduates of the University of Edinburgh from 1859 to 1888 (both years included) with historical appendix (including present and past office bearers) and separate lists of honorary graduates and graduates with honours</u> (1889) ([http://archive.org/details/alphabeticallist00univrich View])<br />''a list of all graduates, 1859-1888 with various appendices''<br />
* <u>Nomina Eorum Qui Gradum Medicinæ Doctoris in Academia Jacobi Sexti Scoturum Regis .... (Graduates in Medicine 1705-1845)</u> (1846) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2193293200002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>List of Graduates in Medicine in the University of Edinburgh 1705-1866</u> (1867) ([https://archive.org/details/b21466373 View])<br />
* <u>Quasi cursores; portraits of the high officers and professors of the University of Edinburgh at its tercentenary festival</u> ([http://archive.org/details/quasicursorespor00holeuoft View]) - William Hole (1884)<br />
* <u>Medical women; a thesis and a history</u> - Sophia Jex-Blake (1886) ([http://archive.org/details/medicalwomenthes00jexb View])<br />''the battle for women's right to attend and graduate''<br />
* <u>Roll of honour, 1914-1919</u> (1921) ([http://archive.org/details/rollofhonour191400univuoft View])<br />''Roll of the fallen and of war service - staff, students, alumni''<br />
* <u>Roll of Honour 1939-1945</u> (2015) ([https://www.uega.co.uk/copy-of-volume-18-chalmer-s-applica View]) <br />''Compiled and hosted by the Graduates' Association''<br />
* <u>The University Portraits</u>, with biographies (1957 &amp; 1986) (not available online - local copies: [http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=57799 Vol. 1], [http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=201727 Vol. 2]<br />
* <u>Edinburgh University worthies : biographies of selected pre-1901 alumni and staff of the University of Edinburgh</u> (1999) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2186396370002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Medical education in the Age of Improvement : Edinburgh students and apprentices, 1760-1826</u> - Lisa Rosner (1991) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2192741740002466 local copies])<br />
<br />
== Campus and Buildings ==<br />
<br />
* <u>The past hundred years : the buildings of the University of Edinburgh</u> - Charles H. Stewart (1973) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2176831420002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>The Building of Old College: Adam, Playfair and the University of Edinburgh</u> - Andrew Fraser (1989) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21125780490002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Saint Cecilia's Hall in the Niddry Wynd; a chapter in the history of the music of the past in Edinburgh</u> - David Fraser Harris (1899) ([http://archive.org/details/saintceciliashal00harruoft View]) ''See also the 1984 reprint with foreward by Peter Williams''<br />
* <u>The Temple of Harmony: A New Architectural History of St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh</u> - Joe Rock, Martin Hillman &amp; Antonia J Bunch (2011) in [http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E1350752409000193 Architectural Heritage, Volume 20, Page 55-74]<br />
* <u>University of Edinburgh : walking tours of university buildings</u> - Andrew G. Fraser (1983) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2181658030002466 local copies])<br />
*''The development of King's Buildings campus is covered in some detail in <u>Science at the University of Edinburgh 1583-1993</u> (see above)''<br />
<br />
== Student Life, Clubs and Societies ==<br />
<br />
* <u>College echoes : sketches and scenes of university life at Edinburgh</u> - David Cuthbertson (1890) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21103916300002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>The Story of Edinburgh University Athletic Club</u> - C. M. Usher (1966) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21109142760002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Edinburgh University Tea Club 1920-45</u> - Clara Ashworth (1946) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21116958450002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Atlanta's Garland, Being the Book of Edinburgh University Women's Union</u> - Lorraine E. Smith (Ed.) (1926) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21126572980002466 local copies])<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Guides]] [[Category:Incomplete]]</div>GButtarshttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Bibliography_of_Published_Sources&diff=7395Bibliography of Published Sources2020-11-18T07:13:10Z<p>GButtars: </p>
<hr />
<div>Published sources are often useful background reading before 'plunging' into in-depth, archives-based research. The following list is not exhaustive but is being added to as we identify useful texts to direct people towards.<br />
<br />
Some have begun to appear online at the [http://www.archive.org/ Internet Archive] and links are provided to these. Others can be consulted here and links are given to the main Library Catalogue.<br />
<br />
== Institutional Histories ==<br />
<br />
* <u>History of the University of Edinburgh, from 1580 to 1646 : to which is prefixed the charter granted to the college by James VI of Scotland, in 1582</u> ([http://archive.org/details/historyuniversi00craugoog View]) - Thomas Craufurd (1808)<br />
* <u>The History of the University of Edinburgh: Chiefly Compiled from Original Papers and Records ... </u> ([http://archive.org/details/historyuniversi02bowegoog View]) - Alexander Bower (1830)<br />
* <u>History of the University of Edinburgh from its foundation</u> ([http://archive.org/details/historyofunivers01dalzuoft Volume 1] :: [http://archive.org/details/historyofunivers02dalzuoft Volume 2]) - Andrew Dalzel (1862)<br />
* <u>The story of the University of Edinburgh during its first three hundred years</u> ([http://archive.org/details/storyuniversity07grangoog Volume 1] :: [http://archive.org/details/storyuniversity06grangoog Volume 2]) - Sir Alexander Grant<br />''covers the period 1583-1883''<br />
* <u>Edinburgh University, A Sketch of its Life for 300 Years</u> ([http://archive.org/details/edinburghuniver00univgoog View]) (1884)<br />
* <u>University of Edinburgh : Charters, statutes, and acts of the Town council and the Senatus, 1583-1858</u> (1937) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21126035010002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>History of the University of Edinburgh, 1883-1933</u> - Sir Arthur Logan Turner (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2177621630002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>A Short History of the University of Edinburgh, 1556-1889</u> - David Bayne Horn (1967) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21122390150002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Four Centuries: Edinburgh University Life, 1583-1983</u> - Gordon Donaldson, Ed. (1983) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21130310890002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>The University of Edinburgh : an illustrated history</u> - Anderson, Lynch &amp; Phillipson (2003) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21127331050002466 local copies])<br />
<br />
== Subject areas, Divisions, Departments ==<br />
<br />
* <u>Britain's first Chair of Agriculture at the University of Edinburgh,1790-1990 : a history of the Chair founded by William Johnstone Pulteney</u> - Fleming &amp; Robertson (1990) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21117803020002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Engineering at Edinburgh University : a short history, 1673-1983</u> - Ronald M. Birse (1983) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21130318830002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Science at the University of Edinburgh 1583-1993 : an illustrated history to mark the centenary of the Faculty of Science and Engineering 1893-1993</u> - Ronald M. Birse (1994) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2182449610002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Edinburgh University Library 1580-1980</u> - Guild &amp; Law, Eds. (1982) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21130386260002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>The Polish School of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh : an album</u> - Wiktor Tomaszewski (1983) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21130445780002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Fifty years of the Polish School of Medicine, the University of Edinburgh : 1941-1991 ; jubilee publication</u> - Wiktor Tomaszewski (1992) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2199447350002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Moray House and professional education : papers to mark the college's 150th anniversary</u> - Gordon Kirk (1985) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21108926180002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>New College Edinburgh: A Centenary History</u> - Hugh Watt and A. Mitchell Turner (1946) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2176716720002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Edinburgh University Library : an account of its origin with a description of its rarer books and manuscripts</u> - David Cuthbertson (1910) ([http://archive.org/details/cu31924029534975 View])<br />
* <u>Revelations of a library life, 1876-1922 : including recollections of Edinburgh professors; student life, past and present, with many personal adventures and anecdotes</u> - David Cuthbertson (1923) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2183344700002466 local copies])<br />
<br />
== People ==<br />
<br />
* <u>A catalogue of the graduates in the faculties of arts, divinity, and law, of the University of Edinburgh since its foundation</u> (1858) ([http://archive.org/details/catalogueofgradu00bann View])<br />''a list of all graduates (except Medicine), 1587-1858''<br />
* <u>Alphabetical list of graduates of the University of Edinburgh from 1859 to 1888 (both years included) with historical appendix (including present and past office bearers) and separate lists of honorary graduates and graduates with honours</u> (1889) ([http://archive.org/details/alphabeticallist00univrich View])<br />''a list of all graduates, 1859-1888 with various appendices''<br />
* <u>Nomina Eorum Qui Gradum Medicinæ Doctoris in Academia Jacobi Sexti Scoturum Regis .... (Graduates in Medicine 1705-1845)</u> (1846) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2193293200002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>List of Graduates in Medicine in the University of Edinburgh 1705-1866</u> (1867) (https://archive.org/details/b21466373 View])<br />
* <u>Quasi cursores; portraits of the high officers and professors of the University of Edinburgh at its tercentenary festival</u> ([http://archive.org/details/quasicursorespor00holeuoft View]) - William Hole (1884)<br />
* <u>Medical women; a thesis and a history</u> - Sophia Jex-Blake (1886) ([http://archive.org/details/medicalwomenthes00jexb View])<br />''the battle for women's right to attend and graduate''<br />
* <u>Roll of honour, 1914-1919</u> (1921) ([http://archive.org/details/rollofhonour191400univuoft View])<br />''Roll of the fallen and of war service - staff, students, alumni''<br />
* <u>Roll of Honour 1939-1945</u> (2015) ([https://www.uega.co.uk/copy-of-volume-18-chalmer-s-applica View]) <br />''Compiled and hosted by the Graduates' Association''<br />
* <u>The University Portraits</u>, with biographies (1957 &amp; 1986) (not available online - local copies: [http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=57799 Vol. 1], [http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=201727 Vol. 2]<br />
* <u>Edinburgh University worthies : biographies of selected pre-1901 alumni and staff of the University of Edinburgh</u> (1999) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2186396370002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Medical education in the Age of Improvement : Edinburgh students and apprentices, 1760-1826</u> - Lisa Rosner (1991) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2192741740002466 local copies])<br />
<br />
== Campus and Buildings ==<br />
<br />
* <u>The past hundred years : the buildings of the University of Edinburgh</u> - Charles H. Stewart (1973) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2176831420002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>The Building of Old College: Adam, Playfair and the University of Edinburgh</u> - Andrew Fraser (1989) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21125780490002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Saint Cecilia's Hall in the Niddry Wynd; a chapter in the history of the music of the past in Edinburgh</u> - David Fraser Harris (1899) ([http://archive.org/details/saintceciliashal00harruoft View]) ''See also the 1984 reprint with foreward by Peter Williams''<br />
* <u>The Temple of Harmony: A New Architectural History of St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh</u> - Joe Rock, Martin Hillman &amp; Antonia J Bunch (2011) in [http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E1350752409000193 Architectural Heritage, Volume 20, Page 55-74]<br />
* <u>University of Edinburgh : walking tours of university buildings</u> - Andrew G. Fraser (1983) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA2181658030002466 local copies])<br />
*''The development of King's Buildings campus is covered in some detail in <u>Science at the University of Edinburgh 1583-1993</u> (see above)''<br />
<br />
== Student Life, Clubs and Societies ==<br />
<br />
* <u>College echoes : sketches and scenes of university life at Edinburgh</u> - David Cuthbertson (1890) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21103916300002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>The Story of Edinburgh University Athletic Club</u> - C. M. Usher (1966) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21109142760002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Edinburgh University Tea Club 1920-45</u> - Clara Ashworth (1946) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21116958450002466 local copies])<br />
* <u>Atlanta's Garland, Being the Book of Edinburgh University Women's Union</u> - Lorraine E. Smith (Ed.) (1926) (not available online - [http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/44UOE_VU1:default_scope:44UOE_ALMA21126572980002466 local copies])<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Guides]] [[Category:Incomplete]]</div>GButtarshttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=James_Miranda_Steuart_Barry_(c1790-1865)&diff=7385James Miranda Steuart Barry (c1790-1865)2019-12-12T14:16:03Z<p>GButtars: </p>
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<div>[[File:0022458d.jpg|right|border|thumb|300px|Title page from James Barry's thesis, 1812]]<br />
<br />
== Early Life ==<br />
<br />
Margaret Bulkley was born in Ireland: a bright, precocious child, she moved to London, with her mother in 1805 and there had access to General Francisco de Miranda’s library with ‘treatises such as might be considered to form a tolerably complete Medical Library for a private gentleman’. As her father had been declared bankrupt, she had no hope of a good marriage so it was decided she should go to university but this was not an option for a female.<br />
<br />
Taking the name of James Barry (after an uncle), Barry went to study medicine, at Edinburgh University, one of the most demanding and rigorous courses in Britain. Barry graduated with a MD thesis dedicated to patrons, General Francisco de Miranda and [[David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan (1742-1829)]]. Then, even more extraordinary, after further training, Barry joined the army and travelled throughout the British Empire. There is no definitive version of Barry's adopted name.<br />
<br />
== Career ==<br />
<br />
Although known to be tetchy, difficult and insubordinate, with a slight figure and high voice, Surgeon-General McKinnon said Barry was a ‘pleasant and agreeable man. He neither cursed nor swore, but behaved himself like a gentleman’. Barry became a close friend to General Lord Charles Somerset, Governor of the Cape Province, having saved both his life and one of his daughters. But rumours arose of a homosexual relationship between Somerset and Barry and Somerset was recalled to Britain, although nothing further happened. Although sent home on many occasions for her actions, Barry was recognised as a fine physician, credited with a general improvement in medical health of soldiers and known to be a highly skilled and much respected surgeon. <br />
<br />
== Chronology ==<br />
<br />
1789/1795: birthdate uncertain<br />
<br />
1812: graduated MD, University of Edinburgh and went to St Thomas’ Hospital, London <br />
<br />
1813: joined the army<br />
<br />
1816: posted to Cape of Good Hope as Assistant Staff Surgeon<br />
<br />
1817: appointed Physician to the Household of the Governor of the Cape<br />
<br />
1826: carried out the first successful Caesarean section in the English-speaking world<br />
<br />
1827: promoted to Staff Surgeon<br />
<br />
1828: October, left Cape Town for London<br />
<br />
1829: arrived Mauritius to deal with outbreak of cholera<br />
<br />
1831: April sailed for Jamaica as Staff Surgeon to the garrison<br />
<br />
1835: left for England after considerable stress and the deaths of many troops due to fever and appalling conditions of the garrisons positioned near swamps <br />
<br />
1836: posted to St Helena as Principal Medical Officer to cope with an epidemic of dysentery <br />
<br />
1836/7?: returned to London<br />
<br />
1838: November, given command of The Windward and Leeward Islands where high death rate from yellow fever and chronic dysentery<br />
<br />
1845: October, became ill and left for England<br />
<br />
1846: November, appointed Principal Medical Officer in Malta and Corfu<br />
<br />
1857: June, left Mediterranean and posted to Canada as Inspector-General of Hospitals<br />
<br />
1859: retired<br />
<br />
1865: died London, 25 July<br />
<br />
== Archives ==<br />
<br />
*Signatures in [[Student Records#Matriculation Albums (1627-1980)|Matriculation Album]]<br />
*Signature in [[Student Records#Laureation and Degrees Albums (1587-1896)|Laureation and Degrees Album]]<br />
*Thesis, ''Disputatio Medica Inaugralis, de Merocele, vel Hernia Crurali''. [https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/417 available online].<br />
<br />
== Sources ==<br />
<br />
*Rae, Isobel: ''The Strange Story of Dr. James Barry: Army Surgeon, Inspector-General of Hospitals, Discovered on Death to be a Woman''<br />
<br />
== Acknowledgements ==<br />
<br />
Adapted from text kindly supplied by Fiona Morrison-Graham<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alumni|Barry, James Miranda Steuart]]</div>GButtarshttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=James_Miranda_Steuart_Barry_(c1790-1865)&diff=7384James Miranda Steuart Barry (c1790-1865)2019-12-11T08:31:47Z<p>GButtars: </p>
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<div>[[File:0022458d.jpg|right|border|thumb|300px|Title page from James Barry's thesis, 1812]]<br />
<br />
== Early Life ==<br />
<br />
Margaret Bulkley was born in Ireland: a bright, precocious child, she moved to London, with her mother in 1805 and there had access to General Francisco de Miranda’s library with ‘treatises such as might be considered to form a tolerably complete Medical Library for a private gentleman’. As her father had been declared bankrupt, she had no hope of a good marriage so it was decided she should go to university but this was not an option for a female.<br />
<br />
Taking the name of James Barry (after her uncle), Barry went to study medicine, at Edinburgh University, one of the most demanding and rigorous courses in Britain. Barry graduated with a MD thesis dedicated to patrons, General Francisco de Miranda and [[David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan (1742-1829)]]. Then, even more extraordinary, after further training, Barry joined the army and travelled throughout the British Empire. There is no definitive version of Barry's adopted name.<br />
<br />
== Career ==<br />
<br />
Although known to be tetchy, difficult and insubordinate, with a slight figure and high voice, Surgeon-General McKinnon said Barry was a ‘pleasant and agreeable man. He neither cursed nor swore, but behaved himself like a gentleman’. Barry became a close friend to General Lord Charles Somerset, Governor of the Cape Province, having saved both his life and one of his daughters. But rumours arose of a homosexual relationship between Somerset and Barry and Somerset was recalled to Britain, although nothing further happened. Although sent home on many occasions for her actions, Barry was recognised as a fine physician, credited with a general improvement in medical health of soldiers and known to be a highly skilled and much respected surgeon. <br />
<br />
== Chronology ==<br />
<br />
1789/1795: birthdate uncertain<br />
<br />
1812: graduated MD, University of Edinburgh and went to St Thomas’ Hospital, London <br />
<br />
1813: joined the army<br />
<br />
1816: posted to Cape of Good Hope as Assistant Staff Surgeon<br />
<br />
1817: appointed Physician to the Household of the Governor of the Cape<br />
<br />
1826: carried out the first successful Caesarean section in the English-speaking world<br />
<br />
1827: promoted to Staff Surgeon<br />
<br />
1828: October, left Cape Town for London<br />
<br />
1829: arrived Mauritius to deal with outbreak of cholera<br />
<br />
1831: April sailed for Jamaica as Staff Surgeon to the garrison<br />
<br />
1835: left for England after considerable stress and the deaths of many troops due to fever and appalling conditions of the garrisons positioned near swamps <br />
<br />
1836: posted to St Helena as Principal Medical Officer to cope with an epidemic of dysentery <br />
<br />
1836/7?: returned to London<br />
<br />
1838: November, given command of The Windward and Leeward Islands where high death rate from yellow fever and chronic dysentery<br />
<br />
1845: October, became ill and left for England<br />
<br />
1846: November, appointed Principal Medical Officer in Malta and Corfu<br />
<br />
1857: June, left Mediterranean and posted to Canada as Inspector-General of Hospitals<br />
<br />
1859: retired<br />
<br />
1865: died London, 25 July<br />
<br />
== Archives ==<br />
<br />
*Signatures in [[Student Records#Matriculation Albums (1627-1980)|Matriculation Album]]<br />
*Signature in [[Student Records#Laureation and Degrees Albums (1587-1896)|Laureation and Degrees Album]]<br />
*Thesis, ''Disputatio Medica Inaugralis, de Merocele, vel Hernia Crurali''. [https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/417 available online].<br />
<br />
== Sources ==<br />
<br />
*Rae, Isobel: ''The Strange Story of Dr. James Barry: Army Surgeon, Inspector-General of Hospitals, Discovered on Death to be a Woman''<br />
<br />
== Acknowledgements ==<br />
<br />
Adapted from text kindly supplied by Fiona Morrison-Graham<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alumni|Barry, James Miranda Steuart]]</div>GButtarshttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Main_Library&diff=7382Main Library2019-06-07T08:23:57Z<p>GButtars: /* Design */</p>
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<div>The Main Library is the largest of Edinburgh University's Libraries. It holds the primary collections in arts, humanities, social sciences, medicine and informatics. It also houses the [[Library]]'s general collections of books and periodicals, older books in all subjects, most of the special collections of rare books and manuscripts, the University archives and the Lothian Health Service Archive.<br />
<br />
== Planning ==<br />
<br />
By the mid-20th century, it had become evident that Library accommodation within the [[Old College]] complex was inadequate for the future needs of the university. In 1949 the Library Committee began to look into what might be needed for an entirely new building. Plans for a new library were soon incorporated into the massive redevelopment of Edinburgh University’s [[Faculty of Arts|Arts Faculty]] centered on [[George Square]], originally a Georgian residential square with a large central garden. A layout was devised for the new Arts campus by architect [[Sir Basil Urwin Spence (1907-1976)]] in 1955, and, in the same year, [[Percy Edwin Alan Johnson-Marshall (1915-1993)|Percy Johnson-Marshall (1915-1993)]] was appointed as Planning Consultant with responsibility for the overall layout, designation of sites, harmonisation of finishes, landscaping and external works. <br />
<br />
== Design ==<br />
<br />
Sir Basil Spence was nominated as the architect for the proposed new library by the [[Principal]] of the University, [[Sir Edward Victor Appleton (1892-1965)]], in 1954. The library was to be the very hub of Spence’s campus scheme, occupying a one-acre site on the south-west corner of George Square. It would be several years, however, before an official library commission was awarded and design work could get underway, as these depended upon the award of a capital grant from the University Grants Committee and the building of replacements for the student hostels that occupied the library site.<br />
<br />
The new Library was designed by Spence’s Edinburgh office of Spence, Glover & Ferguson. This was the firm’s first library building, and their first encounter with the unique challenges of library design: provision of sufficient storage space for books which entails a massive floor loading; adequate lighting for readers but which presents no threat of heat-damage to books; the need for large open floor spaces, and easy access to stacks. These requirements were met through reinforced concrete construction and reliance on mechanical services: heating, lighting, air conditioning and extraction systems.<br />
<br />
The design process was extremely rigorous, involving extensive researching into existing library structures, and close consultation with the university librarian [[Erik Richard Sidney Fifoot (1925-1992)|Richard Fifoot (1925-1992)]] as the team sought to provide space for 2,500 readers, 114 staff and 2 million books.<br />
<br />
Spence did not personally produce a design for the library. His partner [[John Hardie Glover (1913-1994)]] was put in charge of the job and appointed [[Andrew Merrylees (1933- )]] as project architect. Merrylees had developed a sketch plan by February 1963 which was approved by the University Grants Committee in June of the same year. Glover, however, was unhappy with the proportions of the front elevation. He consulted with Spence who devised a suspended fascia across the entrance to amend the proportions.<br />
<br />
== Building ==<br />
<br />
Planning consent was granted in November 1964, and construction began working with a budget of £1,700,000, a considerable sum for the time. When completed in August 1967, the Library was the largest building of its type in Britain. It was met with immediate acclaim, earning a RIBA award in 1968 and a Civic Trust Commendation in 1969. Today it is recognized as one of the major modernist works in Scotland is a category A listed building. The experience gained by Spence’s team in building the Main Library was put to further use in their designs for Newcastle Central Library, University College Dublin Library, the Sidney Jones Library (Liverpool University) and the Cameron Small Library (Heriot Watt University).<br />
<br />
== Redevelopment ==<br />
<br />
Between 2006 and 2012, a major redevelopment of the Main Library was carried out by the architects [[Lewis and Hickey]], preserving all essential details of the Spence team’s design but creating a more open and flexible study space in response to changing student and research needs. This also created a new space for the library’s historic collections in the [[Centre for Research Collections]].<br />
<br />
== Archives ==<br />
<br />
*[[George Square Redevelopment]]<br />
*[[Main Library: Architectural and Structural Drawings]]<br />
<br />
== Sources ==<br />
<br />
*Clive B. Fenton, 'The Library Designs of Sir Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson', ''Architectural Heritage'', 24.1 (2013), 87-102.<br />
[[Category:Campus]]</div>GButtarshttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Forensic_Medicine&diff=7331Forensic Medicine2017-09-12T10:10:48Z<p>GButtars: </p>
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<div>[[Andrew Duncan (1744-1828)]] was the first in Britain to lecture in forensic medicine, beginning in 1789. In 1807, the [[University of Edinburgh]] was the first in the country to establish a Chair of Medical Jurisprudence. The full title was 'Regius Chair of Medical Jurisprudence and Medical Police'. [[Andrew Duncan (1773-1832)]], son of the previous, was the first to hold the post. He was succeeded by [[William Pultney Allison (1790-1859)]], who held the Chair 1820-1821.<br />
<br />
On the appointment of [[Sir Robert Christison (1797-1882)]] in 1822, the Chair was moved from the [[Faculty of Law]] to the [[Faculty of Medicine]]. He was succeeded in 1832 by [[Thomas Stewart Traill (1781-1862)]]. In turn he was succeeded, in 1862, by [[Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan (1812-1900)]].<br />
<br />
Henry Duncan Littlejohn was appointed to the then Chair of Forensic Medicine and Public Health in 1897. However the University established a separate Chair in [[Public Health]] the following year, that element was removed from Littlejohn's immediate remit and became the responsibility of [[Charles Hunter Stewart (1854-1924)]], the first Professor of Public Health. The Institute of Public Health was established 3 years later. In 1906, [[Henry Harvey Littlejohn (1862-1927)]] succeeded his father, holding the post until his death in 1927. In 1906 he also became Police Surgeon in Edinburgh.<br />
<br />
The next incumbent was [[Sir Sydney Alfred Smith (1883-1969)]], who had previously been an assistant under Henry Harvey Littlejohn and also frequently acted as a medical expert in court. He succeeded in 1928 and held the post until 1953 when he was was succeeded by [[Douglas James Acworth Kerr (1894-1960)]]. After Kerr's death, the Chair seems to have been vacant until the appointment of [[John Kenyon French Mason (1919-2017)]] in 1973. It then fell vacant again, following Mason's retiral in 1985, until [[Anthony Busuttil]] was appointed three years later.<br />
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[[Category:Academic Units]] [[Category:Incomplete]]</div>GButtarshttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Forensic_Medicine&diff=7330Forensic Medicine2017-09-12T09:59:41Z<p>GButtars: Corrections including the addition of Douglas James Ashworth Kerr and Anthony Busuttil</p>
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<div>[[Andrew Duncan (1744-1828)]] was the first in Britain to lecture in forensic medicine, beginning in 1789. In 1807, the [[University of Edinburgh]] was the first in the country to establish a Chair of Medical Jurisprudence. The full title was 'Regius Chair of Medical Jurisprudence and Medical Police'. [[Andrew Duncan (1773-1832)]], son of the previous, was the first to hold the post. He was succeeded by [[William Pultney Allison (1790-1859)]], who held the Chair 1820-1821.<br />
<br />
On the appointment of [[Sir Robert Christison (1797-1882)]] in 1822, the Chair was moved from the [[Faculty of Law]] to the [[Faculty of Medicine]]. He was succeeded in 1832 by [[Thomas Stewart Traill (1781-1862)]]. In turn he was succeeded, in 1862, by [[Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan (1812-1900)]].<br />
<br />
Henry Duncan Littlejohn was appointed to the then Chair of Forensic Medicine and Public Health in 1897. However the University established a separate Chair in [[Public Health]] the following year, that element was removed from Littlejohn's immediate remit and became the responsibility of [[Charles Hunter Stewart (1854-1924)]], the first Professor of Public Health. The Institute of Public Health was established 3 years later. In 1906, [[Henry Harvey Littlejohn (1862-1927)]] succeeded his father, holding the post until his death in 1927. In 1906 he also became Police Surgeon in Edinburgh.<br />
<br />
The next incumbent was [[Sir Sydney Alfred Smith (1883-1969)]], who had previously been an assistant under Henry Harvey Littlejohn and also frequently acted as a medical expert in court. He succeeded in 1928 and held the post until 1953 when he was was succeeded by [[Douglas James Ashworth Kerr (1894-1960)]]. After Kerr's death, the Chair seems to have been vacant until the appointment of [[John Kenyon French Mason (1919-2017)]] in 1973. It then fell vacant again, following Mason's retiral in 1985, until [[Anthony Busuttil]] was appointed three years later.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Academic Units]] [[Category:Incomplete]]</div>GButtarshttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Papers_of_Professor_Charles_Mackie&diff=7326Papers of Professor Charles Mackie2017-08-11T15:19:51Z<p>GButtars: </p>
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<div>[[Charles Mackie (1688-1770)]] was appointed as Edinburgh University’s first Professor of [[History]] in 1719. He was sole occupant of the Chair until 1753, then served as co-Professor until retiring in 1765. His Papers (GB 237 Coll-423) consist of: <br />
<br />
*Alphabetical biographical dictionary compiled from Bayle and Morer (Dc.8.50)<br />
*'Annotationes in ontologiam Gerrardi de Vries' and Annotationes in pneumatologiam G. de Vries', dictates by [[William Law (d. 1729)]], Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University, taken down by Mackie when a student, 1703-1704 (Dc.7.79)<br />
*Catalogue of Mackie's library entitled 'Libri historici, antiquarii, literatores, poetae, etc.' (Dc.8.51)<br />
*Chronological notes of the birth and death of Mackie's children, transcript ca. 1800 (in Dc.1.47)<br />
*Commonplace books containing chiefly notes and extracts on Roman and general history, 2 vols (also containing a list in vol. 2 of Mackie's students in History and Roman Antiquities) (Dc.5.24)<br />
*Commonplace book on Scottish history (Dc.8.24)<br />
*'Index funereus 29 annorum', lists of persons deceased, 1727-1756, transcript ca. 1800 (Dc.1.47)<br />
*'Notae in Horatii Turselini Romani Historiarum epitomas', student notes from Mackie's lectures, 1743 (MS 2648) <br />
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== External Links ==<br />
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*[http://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/86597 Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue]<br />
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<div>Hispanic Studies have been been taught at Edinburgh University since 1919/1920. In 1920, [[Leslie Bannister Walton (1895-1960)]] was appointed Forbes Lecturer in Spanish. In 1938 he became Reader in Spanish, remaining in post until his death in 1960. In 1947 the Department of Spanish became the Department of Hispanic Studies with the appointment of [[Margaret Crosland (d. 2006)]] as Forbes Lecturer in Hispanic Studies. Crosland became Senior Lecturer in 1962 and remained with the department until her retirement in 1980. The Forbes Chair of Spanish was created in 1962 with [[Alexander Augustine Parker (1908-1989)]] as the first appointee. In 1999 the Chair of Spanish was renamed the Chair of Hispanic Studies.<br />
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== Professors of Spanish/Hispanic Studies ==<br />
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*1963-1969: [[Alexander Augustine Parker (1908-1989)]]<br />
*1969-1989: [[Edward Calverley Riley (1923-2001)]]<br />
*1990-2004: [[Edwin Williamson]]<br />
*2004- : [[Jeremy Robbins (1965- )]]<br />
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== Portuguese ==<br />
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Hispanic Studies at Edinburgh University cover not only Spanish and Latin American Studies, but Portuguese and Lusitanian language and culture. A lectureship in Portuguese has existed since 1988 when [[David G. Frier]] became the first appointee to the post.<br />
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<div>[[George Wilson (1818-1859)]] was appointed to a new Regius Chair of Technology within the [[Faculty of Arts]] in 1855. At the same time he was appointed as the first Director of the Industrial Museum of Scotland (now part of the National Museum of Scotland). The Chair of Technology was abolished on Wilson's death in 1859. However, the growing importance of engineering studies saw an endowment by Dundee industrialist [[Sir David Baxter of Kilmaron (1793–1872)]], towards a Regius Chair of Engineering. [[Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin (1833–1885)]] was appointed as first professor, having previously held the equivalent post at University College, London.<br />
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His successor, in 1885, was [[George Frederick Armstrong (1842-1900)]], a specialist in railway engineering from Yorkshire. The Fulton Engineering Laboratory was established in 1889 as a place for both instruction and analysis of materials. Armstrong died in 1900 and was succeeded by [[Sir Thomas Hudson Beare (1859-1940)]]. Under 'Huddy', the Engineering Department grow from a tiny one in [[Old College]] basement to over a hundred occupying what the [[Edinburgh University Journal]] called "one of the best planned and equipped engineering schools in the Empire". These were the new engineering facilities at the university's [[King's Buildings]], which had been opened in 1935.<br />
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In 1946 Ronald Arnold, a Glasgow-born specialist in structural analysis and gyrodynamics, was appointed from Swansea University as the fourth Regius Professor of Engineering. Arnold pioneered in 1960 the division of the unitary department of engineering into separate departments of civil, mechanical and electrical engineering.<br />
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Following the untimely death of Arnold in 1963, Leslie Jaeger was appointed fifth Regius Professor, from Magdalene College, Cambridge. Jaeger’s appointment was brief, leaving after only four years to take up the Chair of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics at McGill University (coincidentally, the Chair that a previous Regius Professor, George Armstrong, had held much earlier).<br />
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James King, former Chief Scientist in the Naval Construction Research Establishment at Rosyth, became the sixth Regius Professor in 1968, and on his retirement in 1983 the seventh holder of the Chair was Joseph McGeough, who was appointed from the University of Aberdeen to expand the Edinburgh research activities in electro-chemical machining.<br />
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Following McGeough's retiral in 2005, the university appointed, in 2007, Peter Grant as the eighth Regius Professor of Engineering, from within the enlarged 26-strong body of professors in the newly merged School of Engineering. Grant had previously led the signal processing research at Edinburgh, with achievements in the design of adaptive filters and mobile communication receivers. He was President of EURASIP, the European Association for Signal Processing from 2000–02 and recipient of the 2004 IEE Faraday medal. In 2008 he was awarded an OBE.<br />
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In 2013 Jason Reese was appointed the ninth Regius Professor of Engineering. With a background in physics and applied mathematics, his research focuses on multiscale flow systems in which the molecular nature of the fluid determines the overall fluid dynamics.<br />
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== Regius Professors of Engineering ==<br />
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[[Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin (1833–1885)]]<br />
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[[George Frederick Armstrong (1842-1900)]], 1885-<br />
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[[Sir Thomas Hudson Beare (1859-1940)]], 1901-<br />
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[[Ronald Nathan Arnold (1908-1963)]], 1946-1963<br />
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[[Leslie Gordon Jaeger (1926-1913)]], 1965-1968<br />
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[[James Lawrence King (1922-c1995)]], 1968-1983<br />
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[[Joseph Anthony McGeough (1940-)]], 1983-2013<br />
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[[Jason Reese]], 2013-<br />
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<div>[[File:Trotsig.jpg|right|border|thumb|300px|Trotsky's signature]]<br />
In 1935 [[Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)|Leon Trotsky]] was invited by Edinburgh University students to become a candidate in the [[Rector|Rectorial]] election that year. <br />
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The letter, in French, is addressed to 'Aux Etudiants de l'Universite de Edimbourg', and begins 'Chers Messieurs, Je vous suis bien reconnaissant pour votre proposition si innatendue et si flatteuse: de poser ma candidature pour le Rectorat de votre Universite...' The letter is dated 'le 7 juin 1935', and was sent to [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt|Mr. R. N. Levitt]], Edinburgh.<br />
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The gist of the letter is that Trotsky was unable to accept the invitation to stand in the election. His own translation of the letter is as follows:<br />
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<blockquote>I am very grateful to you for your unexpected and flattering proposal to enter my candidacy for the office of Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh. The freedom from nationalistic considerations which is revealed in this offer does great honour to the spirit of the Edinburgh students. I appreciate your confidence all the more since, in your own words, you are not daunted by the refusal of the British Government to grant me a visa. However, I do not consider myself entitled to accept your offer. The election of the Lord Rector takes place, as you say, on an apolitical basis, and your letter is signed by representatives of all shades of political opinion. But I myself occupy too definite a political position: all my active life since my youth has been devoted to the revolutionary liberation of the proletariat from the yoke of capital. I have no other claim to occupy any responsible position, I would thus consider it treasonable to the working class and disloyal to you to appear in any public sphere under any but the Bolshevik banner. I do not doubt that you will find a candidate much better suited to the traditions of your university. I wish you success in your enterprises with all my heart and remain gratefully.</blockquote><br />
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The letter is signed with a flourished though faded 'L. Trotsky'.<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
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Trotsky’s Diary in Exile, 1935 (Faber & Faber, 1958)<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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[http://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/454 Full Catalogue Record]<br />
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<div>[[File:Trotsig.jpg|right|border|thumb|300px|Trotsky's signature]]<br />
In 1935 [[Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)|Leon Trotsky]] was invited by Edinburgh University students to become a candidate in the [[Rector|Rectorial]] election that year. <br />
<br />
The letter, in French, is addressed to 'Aux Etudiants de l'Universite de Edimbourg', and begins 'Chers Messieurs, Je vous suis bien reconnaissant pour votre proposition si innatendue et si flatteuse: de poser ma candidature pour le Rectorat de votre Universite...' The letter is dated 'le 7 juin 1935', and was sent to [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt|Mr. R. N. Levitt]], Edinburgh.<br />
<br />
The gist of the letter is that Trotsky was unable to accept the invitation to stand in the election.<br />
<br />
His own translation of the letter is as follows:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>I am very grateful to you for your unexpected and flattering proposal to enter my candidacy for the office of Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh. The freedom from nationalistic considerations which is revealed in this offer does great honour to the spirit of the Edinburgh students. I appreciate your confidence all the more since, in your own words, you are not daunted by the refusal of the British Government to grant me a visa. However, I do not consider myself entitled to accept your offer. The election of the Lord Rector takes place, as you say, on an apolitical basis, and your letter is signed by representatives of all shades of political opinion. But I myself occupy too definite a political position: all my active life since my youth has been devoted to the revolutionary liberation of the proletariat from the yoke of capital. I have no other claim to occupy any responsible position, I would thus consider it treasonable to the working class and disloyal to you to appear in any public sphere under any but the Bolshevik banner. I do not doubt that you will find a candidate much better suited to the traditions of your university. I wish you success in your enterprises with all my heart and remain gratefully.</blockquote><br />
<br />
The letter is signed with a flourished though faded 'L. Trotsky'.<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
<br />
Trotsky’s Diary in Exile, 1935 (Faber & Faber, 1958)<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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[http://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/454 Full Catalogue Record]<br />
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<div>[[File:Trotsig.jpg|right|border|thumb|300px|Trotsky's signature]]<br />
In 1935 [[Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)|Leon Trotsky]] was invited by Edinburgh University students to become a candidate in the [[Rector|Rectorial]] election that year. <br />
<br />
The letter, in French, is addressed to 'Aux Etudiants de l'Universite de Edimbourg', and begins 'Chers Messieurs, Je vous suis bien reconnaissant pour votre proposition si innatendue et si flatteuse: de poser ma candidature pour le Rectorat de votre Universite...' The letter is dated 'le 7 juin 1935', and was sent to [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt|Mr. R. N. Levitt]], Edinburgh.<br />
<br />
The gist of the letter is that Trotsky was unable to accept the invitation to stand in the election.<br />
<br />
His own translation of the letter is as follows:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>I am very grateful to you for your unexpected and flattering proposal to enter my candidacy for the office of Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh. The freedom from nationalistic considerations which is revealed in this offer does great honour to the spirit of the Edinburgh students. I appreciate your confidence all the more since, in your own words, you are not daunted by the refusal of the British Government to grant me a visa. However, I do not consider myself entitled to accept your offer. The election of the Lord Rector takes place, as you say, on an apolitical basis, and your letter is signed by representatives of all shades of political opinion. But I myself occupy too definite a political position: all my active life since my youth has been devoted to the revolutionary liberation of the proletariat from the yoke of capital. I have no other claim to occupy any responsible position, I would thus consider it treasonable to the working class and disloyal to you to appear in any public sphere under any but the Bolshevik banner. I do not doubt that you will find a candidate much better suited to the traditions of your university. I wish you success in your enterprises with all my heart and remain gratefully.</blockquote><br />
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The letter is signed with a flourished though faded 'L. Trotsky'.<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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[http://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/454 Full Catalogue Record]<br />
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[[Category:Archives]]</div>GButtarshttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Leon_Trotsky_(1879-1940)&diff=7239Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)2016-08-10T14:23:03Z<p>GButtars: </p>
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<div>Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh. He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] on behalf of a group of students 'of all shades of political opinion'. Though honoured, he felt compelled to decline the invitation.<br />
<br />
This was the same year that [[Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)]] was invited but also declined to stand. It was [[Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861-1936)|Viscount Allenby of Megiddo]] who went on to become the Edinburgh University Rector in 1935, though he died very suddenly in London the following year from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm - on 14 May 1936. [[Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960)|Sir Herbert Grierson]] was elected in the ensuing [[Rectorial Election, 1936|Rectorial Election]].<br />
<br />
Trotsky had been exiled from Russia in 1929 and his reply to Levitt was written less than a fortnight before he left France, after two years there, to begin a year and a half in Norway. Just a year after the invitation from Edinburgh students, Trotsky settled in Mexico. On 20 August 1940, acting on the orders of Stalin, Ramon Mercader attacked Trotsky with an ice pick and he died the next day.<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
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Trotsky’s Diary in Exile, 1935 (Faber & Faber, 1958)<br />
<br />
== Archives ==<br />
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*[[Letter from Leon Trotsky to the students of Edinburgh University, 7 June 1935]]<br />
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<div>In 1935 [[Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)|Leon Trotsky]] was invited by Edinburgh University students to become a candidate in the [[Rector|Rectorial]] election that year. <br />
<br />
The letter, in French, is addressed to 'Aux Etudiants de l'Universite de Edimbourg', and begins 'Chers Messieurs, Je vous suis bien reconnaissant pour votre proposition si innatendue et si flatteuse: de poser ma candidature pour le Rectorat de votre Universite...' The letter is dated 'le 7 juin 1935', and was sent to [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt|Mr. R. N. Levitt]], Edinburgh.<br />
<br />
The gist of the letter is that Trotsky was unable to accept the invitation to stand in the election.<br />
<br />
His own translation of the letter is as follows:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>I am very grateful to you for your unexpected and flattering proposal to enter my candidacy for the office of Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh. The freedom from nationalistic considerations which is revealed in this offer does great honour to the spirit of the Edinburgh students. I appreciate your confidence all the more since, in your own words, you are not daunted by the refusal of the British Government to grant me a visa. However, I do not consider myself entitled to accept your offer. The election of the Lord Rector takes place, as you say, on an apolitical basis, and your letter is signed by representatives of all shades of political opinion. But I myself occupy too definite a political position: all my active life since my youth has been devoted to the revolutionary liberation of the proletariat from the yoke of capital. I have no other claim to occupy any responsible position, I would thus consider it treasonable to the working class and disloyal to you to appear in any public sphere under any but the Bolshevik banner. I do not doubt that you will find a candidate much better suited to the traditions of your university. I wish you success in your enterprises with all my heart and remain gratefully.</blockquote><br />
<br />
The letter is signed with a flourished though faded 'L. Trotsky'.<br />
<br />
== Links ==<br />
<br />
[http://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/454 Full Catalogue Record]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Archives]]</div>GButtarshttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Leon_Trotsky_(1879-1940)&diff=7237Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)2016-08-10T14:22:12Z<p>GButtars: </p>
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<div>[[File:Trotsig.jpg|right|border|thumb|300px|Trotsky's signature]]<br />
Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh. He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] on behalf of a group of students 'of all shades of political opinion'. Though honoured, he felt compelled to decline the invitation.<br />
<br />
This was the same year that [[Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)]] was invited but also declined to stand. It was [[Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861-1936)|Viscount Allenby of Megiddo]] who went on to become the Edinburgh University Rector in 1935, though he died very suddenly in London the following year from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm - on 14 May 1936. [[Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960)|Sir Herbert Grierson]] was elected in the ensuing [[Rectorial Election, 1936|Rectorial Election]].<br />
<br />
Trotsky had been exiled from Russia in 1929 and his reply to Levitt was written less than a fortnight before he left France, after two years there, to begin a year and a half in Norway. Just a year after the invitation from Edinburgh students, Trotsky settled in Mexico. On 20 August 1940, acting on the orders of Stalin, Ramon Mercader attacked Trotsky with an ice pick and he died the next day.<br />
<br />
== Sources ==<br />
<br />
Trotsky’s Diary in Exile, 1935 (Faber & Faber, 1958)<br />
<br />
== Archives ==<br />
<br />
*[[Letter from Leon Trotsky to the students of Edinburgh University, 7 June 1935]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Rectors|Trotsky, Leon]]</div>GButtarshttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Leon_Trotsky_(1879-1940)&diff=7236Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)2016-08-05T15:21:36Z<p>GButtars: </p>
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<div>[[File:Trotsig.jpg|right|border|thumb|300px|Trotsky's signature]]<br />
Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh. He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] on behalf of a group of students 'of all shades of political opinion'. Though honoured, he felt compelled to decline the invitation.<br />
<br />
His own translation of the letter is as follows:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>I am very grateful to you for your unexpected and flattering proposal to enter my candidacy for the office of Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh. The freedom from nationalistic considerations which is revealed in this offer does great honour to the spirit of the Edinburgh students. I appreciate your confidence all the more since, in your own words, you are not daunted by the refusal of the British Government to grant me a visa. However, I do not consider myself entitled to accept your offer. The election of the Lord Rector takes place, as you say, on an apolitical basis, and your letter is signed by representatives of all shades of political opinion. But I myself occupy too definite a political position: all my active life since my youth has been devoted to the revolutionary liberation of the proletariat from the yoke of capital. I have no other claim to occupy any responsible position, I would thus consider it treasonable to the working class and disloyal to you to appear in any public sphere under any but the Bolshevik banner. I do not doubt that you will find a candidate much better suited to the traditions of your university. I wish you success in your enterprises with all my heart and remain gratefully.</blockquote><br />
<br />
This was the same year that [[Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)]] was invited but also declined to stand. It was [[Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861-1936)|Viscount Allenby of Megiddo]] who went on to become the Edinburgh University Rector in 1935, though he died very suddenly in London the following year from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm - on 14 May 1936. [[Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960)|Sir Herbert Grierson]] was elected in the ensuing [[Rectorial Election, 1936|Rectorial Election]].<br />
<br />
Trotsky had been exiled from Russia in 1929 and his reply to Levitt was written less than a fortnight before he left France, after two years there, to begin a year and a half in Norway. Just a year after the invitation from Edinburgh students, Trotsky settled in Mexico. On 20 August 1940, acting on the orders of Stalin, Ramon Mercader attacked Trotsky with an ice pick and he died the next day.<br />
<br />
== Sources ==<br />
<br />
Trotsky’s Diary in Exile, 1935 (Faber & Faber, 1958)<br />
<br />
== Archives ==<br />
<br />
*[[Letter from Leon Trotsky to the students of Edinburgh University, 7 June 1935]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Rectors|Trotsky, Leon]]</div>GButtarshttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Leon_Trotsky_(1879-1940)&diff=7235Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)2016-08-05T15:21:17Z<p>GButtars: </p>
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<div>[[File:Trotsig.jpg|right|border|thumb|300px|Trotsy's signature]]<br />
Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh. He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] on behalf of a group of students 'of all shades of political opinion'. Though honoured, he felt compelled to decline the invitation.<br />
<br />
His own translation of the letter is as follows:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>I am very grateful to you for your unexpected and flattering proposal to enter my candidacy for the office of Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh. The freedom from nationalistic considerations which is revealed in this offer does great honour to the spirit of the Edinburgh students. I appreciate your confidence all the more since, in your own words, you are not daunted by the refusal of the British Government to grant me a visa. However, I do not consider myself entitled to accept your offer. The election of the Lord Rector takes place, as you say, on an apolitical basis, and your letter is signed by representatives of all shades of political opinion. But I myself occupy too definite a political position: all my active life since my youth has been devoted to the revolutionary liberation of the proletariat from the yoke of capital. I have no other claim to occupy any responsible position, I would thus consider it treasonable to the working class and disloyal to you to appear in any public sphere under any but the Bolshevik banner. I do not doubt that you will find a candidate much better suited to the traditions of your university. I wish you success in your enterprises with all my heart and remain gratefully.</blockquote><br />
<br />
This was the same year that [[Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)]] was invited but also declined to stand. It was [[Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861-1936)|Viscount Allenby of Megiddo]] who went on to become the Edinburgh University Rector in 1935, though he died very suddenly in London the following year from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm - on 14 May 1936. [[Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960)|Sir Herbert Grierson]] was elected in the ensuing [[Rectorial Election, 1936|Rectorial Election]].<br />
<br />
Trotsky had been exiled from Russia in 1929 and his reply to Levitt was written less than a fortnight before he left France, after two years there, to begin a year and a half in Norway. Just a year after the invitation from Edinburgh students, Trotsky settled in Mexico. On 20 August 1940, acting on the orders of Stalin, Ramon Mercader attacked Trotsky with an ice pick and he died the next day.<br />
<br />
== Sources ==<br />
<br />
Trotsky’s Diary in Exile, 1935 (Faber & Faber, 1958)<br />
<br />
== Archives ==<br />
<br />
*[[Letter from Leon Trotsky to the students of Edinburgh University, 7 June 1935]]<br />
<br />
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<div></div>GButtarshttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Reginald_Nathaniel_Levitt&diff=7232Reginald Nathaniel Levitt2016-08-05T15:00:29Z<p>GButtars: </p>
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<div>Born in Edinburgh in 1913, the son of Henry J. Levitt, J.P., proprietor of Woodhouse Furniture Stores, Reginald Nathaniel Levitt was educated at Edinburgh Academy, 1921-32. Part of a well-known Edinburgh Jewish family (his father oversaw the building of Edinburgh's Synagogue), he went on to study at Oxford for one year before returning to Edinburgh to study at the University. He first matriculated in session 1933/34 and graduated MA (1937) and LLB (1939). He was also a member of the Fencing Club and its Captain, 1938-39.<br />
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In 1935, he wrote to [[Leon_Trotsky_(1879-1940)|Leon Trotsky]], inviting him to stand as [[Rector]]. Trotsky declined. <br />
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After graduation, Levitt served in the Royal Army Service Corps during WW2. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the MBE. In 1963, he was appointed Honorary Colonel in the R.A.S.C. (Territorial Army). From 1962-66, he was convener of the pensions committee of the Royal British Legion, Scotland and he served as its Chairman 1968-71, for which service he received the OBE. He was Honorary Colonel Comandant of the Royal Corps of Transport, 1974-78.<br />
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From 1951, he served as Sheriff Substitute of Caithness, Sutherland, Orkney and Zetland at Wick and, from 1955, as Sheriff Substitute of Ayr and Bute at Kilmarnock. <br />
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In 1947, he married Sheila Oppenheim, whose brother, Meyer, was married to his sister Violet. He died in Ayr on 11 December 1982, following a long illness.<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
Obituary, [[University of Edinburgh Journal]] (June 1983)<br />
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The Scotsman (newspaper), 19 Feb 1936 and 7 Aug 1947<br />
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<div>Born in Edinburgh in 1913, the son of Henry J. Levitt, J.P., proprietor of Woodhouse Furniture Stores, Reginald Nathaniel Levitt was educated at Edinburgh Academy, 1921-32. Part of a well-known Edinburgh Jewish family (his father oversaw the building of Edinburgh's Synagogue), he went on to study at Oxford for one year before returning to Edinburgh to study at the University. He first matriculated in session 1933/34 and graduated MA (1937) and LLB (1939). He was also a member of the Fencing Club and its Captain, 1938-39.<br />
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In 1935, he wrote to [[Leon_Trotsky_(1879-1940)|Leon Trotsky]], inviting him to stand as [[Rector]]. Trotsky declined. <br />
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After graduation, Levitt served in the Royal Army Service Corps during WW2. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the MBE. In 1963, he was appointed Honorary Colonel in the R.A.S.C. (Territorial Army). From 1962-66, he was convener of the pensions committee of the Royal British Legion, Scotland and he served as its Chairman 1968-71, for which service he received the OBE. He was Honorary Colonel Comandant of the Royal Corps of Transport, 1974-78.<br />
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From 1951, he served as Sheriff Substitute of Caithness, Sutherland, Orkney and Zetland at Wick and, from 1955, as Sheriff Substitute of Ayr and Bute at Kilmarnock. <br />
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In 1947, he married Sheila Oppenheim, whose brother was married to his sister Violet. He died in Ayr on 11 December 1982, following a long illness.<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
Obituary, [[University of Edinburgh Journal]] (June 1983)<br />
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The Scotsman (newspaper), 19 Feb 1936 and 7 Aug 1947<br />
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<div>Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh. He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] on behalf of a group of students 'of all shades of political opinion'. Though honoured, he felt compelled to decline the invitation.<br />
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His own translation of the letter is as follows:<br />
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<blockquote>I am very grateful to you for your unexpected and flattering proposal to enter my candidacy for the office of Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh. The freedom from nationalistic considerations which is revealed in this offer does great honour to the spirit of the Edinburgh students. I appreciate your confidence all the more since, in your own words, you are not daunted by the refusal of the British Government to grant me a visa. However, I do not consider myself entitled to accept your offer. The election of the Lord Rector takes place, as you say, on an apolitical basis, and your letter is signed by representatives of all shades of political opinion. But I myself occupy too definite a political position: all my active life since my youth has been devoted to the revolutionary liberation of the proletariat from the yoke of capital. I have no other claim to occupy any responsible position, I would thus consider it treasonable to the working class and disloyal to you to appear in any public sphere under any but the Bolshevik banner. I do not doubt that you will find a candidate much better suited to the traditions of your university. I wish you success in your enterprises with all my heart and remain gratefully.</blockquote><br />
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This was the same year that [[Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)]] was invited but also declined to stand. It was [[Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861-1936)|Viscount Allenby of Megiddo]] who went on to become the Edinburgh University Rector in 1935, though he died very suddenly in London the following year from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm - on 14 May 1936. [[Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960)|Sir Herbert Grierson]] was elected in the ensuing [[Rectorial Election, 1936|Rectorial Election]].<br />
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Trotsky had been exiled from Russia in 1929 and his reply to Levitt was written less than a fortnight before he left France, after two years there, to begin a year and a half in Norway. Just a year after the invitation from Edinburgh students, Trotsky settled in Mexico. On 20 August 1940, acting on the orders of Stalin, Ramon Mercader attacked Trotsky with an ice pick and he died the next day.<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
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Trotsky’s Diary in Exile, 1935 (Faber & Faber, 1958)<br />
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*[[Letter from Leon Trotsky to the students of Edinburgh University, 7 June 1935]]<br />
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<div>David Mather Masson (1822-1907) was Regius Professor of [[English Literature|Rhetoric and Belles Lettres]] (English Literature) at Edinburgh University from 1865 to 1895.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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Masson was born in Aberdeen in 1822. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, then studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen, where he graduated with degree of MA in 1839. He went to Edinburgh University to study Divinity with the intention of entering the Church, but gave up his studies. Masson embarked upon a literary career, first in Aberdeen, later in Edinburgh and London. He became Professor of English Literature at University College, London, in 1853, a post which he held for twelve years. <br />
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In 1865, he was elected to the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University, holding the chair until his resignation in 1895. While at Edinburgh University, Masson took a prominent part in the fight for the university education of women and he was the first professor to lecture to classes organised by the Edinburgh Ladies' Educational Association (later the [[Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women]]). [[Masson Hall of Residence]], the first residential accommodation for female students, was named in his honour.<br />
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Masson's publications include ''British Novelists and their Styles'' (1859), the multi-volume ''The Life of John Milton'' (1859-1894), and a biography of [[William Drummond of Hawthornden]] (1873). In 1893, he was appointed Historiographer Royal for Scotland. <br />
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<div>Born in Edinburgh in 1913, the son of Henry J. Levitt, J.P., proprietor of Woodhouse Furniture Stores, Reginald Nathaniel Levitt was educated at Edinburgh Academy, 1921-32. He went on to study at Oxford for one year before returning to Edinburgh to study at the University. He first matriculated in session 1933/34 and graduated MA (1937) and LLB (1939). He was also a member of the Fencing Club and its Captain, 1938-39.<br />
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In 1935, he wrote to [[Leon_Trotsky_(1879-1940)|Leon Trotsky]], inviting him to stand as [[Rector]]. Trotsky declined. <br />
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After graduation, Levitt served in the Royal Army Service Corps during WW2. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the MBE. In 1963, he was appointed Honorary Colonel in the R.A.S.C. (Territorial Army). From 1962-66, he was convener of the pensions committee of the Royal British Legion, Scotland and he served as its Chairman 1968-71, for which service he received the OBE. He was Honorary Colonel Comandant of the Royal Corps of Transport, 1974-78.<br />
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From 1951, he served as Sheriff Substitute of Caithness, Sutherland, Orkney and Zetland at Wick and, from 1955, as Sheriff Substitute of Ayr and Bute at Kilmarnock. <br />
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In 1947, he married Sheila Oppenheim, whose brother was married to his sister Violet. He died in Ayr on 11 December 1982, following a long illness.<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
Obituary, [[University of Edinburgh Journal]] (June 1983)<br />
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The Scotsman (newspaper), 19 Feb 1936 and 7 Aug 1947<br />
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<div>Born in Edinburgh in 1913, the son of Henry J. Levitt, J.P., proprietor of Woodhouse Furniture Stores, Reginald Nathaniel Levitt was educated at Edinburgh Academy, 1921-32. He went on to study at Oxford for one year before returning to Edinburgh to study at the University. He first matriculated in session 1933/34 and graduated MA (1937) and LLB (1939). He was also a member of the Fencing Club and its Captain, 1938-39.<br />
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In 1935, he wrote to [[Leon_Trotsky_(1879-1940)|Leon Trotsky]], inviting him to stand as [[Rector]]. Trotsky declined. <br />
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After graduation, Levitt served in the Royal Army Service Corps during WW2. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the MBE. In 1963, he was appointed Honorary Colonel in the R.A.S.C. (Territorial Army). From 1962-66, he was convener of the pensions committee of the Royal British Legion, Scotland and he served as its Chairman 1968-71, for which service he received the OBE. He was Honorary Colonel Comandant of the Royal Corps of Transport, 1974-78.<br />
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From 1951, he served as Sheriff Substitute of Caithness, Sutherland, Orkney and Zetland at Wick and, from 1955, as Sheriff Substitute of Ayr and Bute at Kilmarnock. <br />
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In 1947, he married Sheila Oppenheim, whose brother was married to his sister Violet. He died in Ayr on 11 December 1982, following a long illness.<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
Obituary, [[University of Edinburgh Journal]] (June 1983)<br />
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<div>Born in Edinburgh in 1913, the son of Henry J. Levitt, J.P., proprietor of Woodhouse Furniture Stores, Reginald Nathaniel Levitt was educated at Edinburgh Academy, 1921-32. He went on to study at Oxford for one year before returning to Edinburgh to study at the University. He first matriculated in session 1933/34 and graduated MA (1937) and LLB (1939). He was also a member of the Fencing Club and its Captain, 1938-39.<br />
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In 1935, he wrote to [[Leon_Trotsky_(1879-1940)|Leon Trotsky]], inviting him to stand as [[Rector]]. Trotsky declined. <br />
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After graduation, Levitt served in the Royal Army Service Corps during WW2. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the MBE. In 1963, he was appointed Honorary Colonel in the R.A.S.C. (Territorial Army). From 1962-66, he was convener of the pensions committee of the Royal British Legion, Scotland and he served as its Chairman 1968-71, for which service he received the OBE. He was Honorary Colonel Comandant of the Royal Corps of Transport, 1974-78.<br />
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From 1951, he served as Sheriff Substitute of Caithness, Sutherland, Orkney and Zetland at Wick and, from 1955, as Sheriff Substitute of Ayr and Bute at Kilmarnock. He died in Ayr on 11 December 1982, following a long illness.<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
Obituary, [[University of Edinburgh Journal]] (June 1983)<br />
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<div>Born in Edinburgh in 1913, the son of Henry J. Levitt, J.P., proprietor of Woodhouse Furniture Stores, Reginald Nathaniel Levitt was educated at Edinburgh Academy, 1921-32. He went on to study at Oxford for one year before returning to Edinburgh to study at the University. He first matriculated in session 1933/34 and graduated MA (1937) and LLB (1939). <br />
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In 1935, he wrote to [[Leon_Trotsky_(1879-1940)|Leon Trotsky]], inviting him to stand as [[Rector]]. Trotsky declined. <br />
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After graduation, Levitt served in the Royal Army Service Corps during WW2. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the MBE. In 1963, he was appointed Honorary Colonel in the R.A.S.C. (Territorial Army). From 1962-66, he was convener of the pensions committee of the Royal British Legion, Scotland and he served as its Chairman 1968-71, for which service he received the OBE. He was Honorary Colonel Comandant of the Royal Corps of Transport, 1974-78.<br />
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From 1951, he served as Sheriff Substitute of Caithness, Sutherland, Orkney and Zetland at Wick and, from 1955, as Sheriff Substitute of Ayr and Bute at Kilmarnock. He died in Ayr on 11 December 1982, following a long illness.<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
Obituary, [[University of Edinburgh Journal]] (June 1983)<br />
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<div>[[File:0028529c.jpg |border | 300 px | right | thumb | Brenda Elizabeth Moon (1931-2011), First female Librarian of [[Library|Edinburgh University Library]], photograph by Mary Moon]]Brenda Elizabeth Moon was Edinburgh University's first female University Librarian, serving from 1980 to 1996, and playing a pioneering role in bringing [[Library|Edinburgh University Library]] into the digital age.<br />
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== Beginnings ==<br />
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Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, and educated in Birmingham, Moon read classics at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Before coming to Edinburgh, she worked in the university libraries of Sheffield (1955-1962) and Hull (1962-1979) (where she served as Deputy under Philip Larkin).<br />
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== Edinburgh University ==<br />
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Moon brought to the role a clear vision of the transformative effect that digitisation would have on libraries. On arriving at Edinburgh she persuaded the university to accelerate its automation programme, and Edinburgh thus became one of the first university libraries to network a version of its online catalogue. Moon also recognized the importance of national and international collaboration between libraries in an increasingly globalized research and teaching environment. She ensured that Edinburgh University played a major role in library co-operative networks and was a co-founder of CURL (Consortium of University Research Libraries, now RLUK). Moon laid particular emphasis on building up archives and special collections and expanding the library's collections to include museum objects and art works. Major collections that she brought to Edinburgh University include the papers of modern Scottish writers such as [[George Mackay Brown (1921-1996)|George Mackay Brown]], [[Norman MacCaig (1910-1996)|Norman MacCaig]], and [[Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)|Hugh MacDiarmid]], the Papers of [[Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)|Arthur Koestler]], and the [[James Clarkson Corson (1905-1988)|Corson Collection]] of Sir Walter Scott Materials.<br />
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== Research ==<br />
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Moon, a keen traveller herself, had a lifelong research interest in women travellers. While working at Edinburgh, she gained a MPhil (Leeds University) with a thesis on Marianne North. After retiring, she attained a PhD (Hull) with a thesis on Amelia B. Edwards which was subsequently published as a book, ''Usefully Employed: Amelia B Edwards, Writer, Traveller, and Campaigner for Ancient Egypt'' (2006). Moon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) and was curator of the RSE from 2002 to 2005.<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
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*Sheila Cannell, 'Brenda Moon: University Librarian Who Had a Clear Vision of the Transformative Effects of Digitisation', ''The Independen''t, 5 April 2011 [[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/brenda-moon-university-librarian-who-had-a-clear-vision-of-the-transformative-effects-of-digitisation-2262368.html], accessed 2 September 2014]]<br />
*Peter B. Freshwater, 'Brenda Elizabeth Moon MA MPhil PhD FRSE Librarian to the University 1980-1996: An Appreciation', ''University of Edinburgh Journal'', XLV, no. 1 (June 2011), p. 7.<br />
*Derek Law, 'Brenda Moon Obituary', ''The Guardian'', 31 March 2011 [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/31/brenda-moon-obituary], accessed 2 September 2014]]<br />
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<div>This category covers Librarians and senior staff of [[Library|Edinburgh University Library]].</div>GButtarshttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=James_Clarkson_Corson_(1905-1988)&diff=7222James Clarkson Corson (1905-1988)2016-07-30T08:18:36Z<p>GButtars: </p>
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<div>[[File:0012632d.jpg|thumb|right|300px|border|James Corson in a group of [[Library]] staff, 1939]]<br />
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The collection of Scott materials gathered by James Clarkson Corson, librarian, scholar, and Scottophile, and now to be found in Edinburgh University Library's Centre for Research Collections, is one of the most important collections of Scott materials in existence.<br />
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James Clarkson Corson was born in Edinburgh on 30 June 1905. He was educated at Daniel Stewart's College, 1911-1924, before entering Edinburgh University to read [[History]], in which he graduated on 28 June 1928. Corson stayed on at Edinburgh University for a further six years, obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1934 for his thesis on 'The English Revolution and the Doctrines of Resistance and Non-Resistance, 1688-1714: A Study in Sovereignty'.<br />
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Before he completed his postgraduate work, however, Corson had taken up a post in the University Library. At first he was employed as an Assistant Librarian, but he soon rose to the position of Deputy Librarian in 1939, where he was to remain until his retirement in 1965. Corson served as a Deputy to [[Lauriston William Sharp (1897-1959)]], who, like Corson, was an Edinburgh graduate; Sharp had joined the Library staff a few years before Corson in the mid-1920s, first as Assistant Librarian, moving on to become Keeper of Manuscripts in 1931. Sharp and Corson served their apprenticeships as academic librarians during the era of F.C. Nicholson, very much a scholar-librarian of the sort which is now but a memory. In this atmosphere, the two apprentices were able to undertake serious scholarly pursuits, Sharp editing the ''Early Letters of Robert Wodrow'' for the Scottish History Society, with the help of Corson who 'corrected such proofs as I have given him with meticulous accuracy, and has given me the benefit of his expert knowledge of the art of indexing', a skill which would later be used for the benefit of Scott scholars. Corson assisted Sharp in presiding over the Library during the difficult years of the war, and during the less difficult years of the 1950s, during which time Sharp was giving serious consideration to the problems of accommodation in Old College and to the preliminary stages of planning the construction of what is now the Main Library building in George Square. Corson had to look after the Library for a year following the sudden death of his old friend. When [[Erik Richard Sidney Fifoot (1925-1992)]] was eventually appointed as Sharp's successor, Corson retired.<br />
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James Clarkson Corson first became infatuated with [[Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)]] in 1917 as a result of reading ''The Lady of the Lake'' as a set text in his English class at school, and he devoured all the Waverley Novels whilst still in his teens. He visited Abbotsford for the first time in 1919, an experience which he later described as a 'milestone', and which started the infatuation with that building which was to last the rest of his life. He started to collect seriously from the Centenary of Scott's death in 1932 onwards, when he began to amass posters, programmes, and newspaper cuttings. The first major public sign of his devotion to Scott appeared in 1943 with the publication of his ''A Bibliography of Sir Walter Scott: A Classified and Annotated List of Books and Articles Relating to his Life and Works 1797-1940''. A major contribution to literary bibliography of the time, this work can still be used with profit (and caution) alongside Todd and Bowden's magisterial Scott bibliography.<br />
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During the 1950's Corson was able to find the time to publish a considerable amount of bibliographical and historiographical work on Scott. Two articles on ''The Border Antiquities'' appeared in the early issues of the new journal of Scottish bibliography, ''The Bibliotheck'' (1956 and 1960), which were then followed by two articles in the same journal on materials found in the Library at Abbotsford, namely ''Chapbooks'' (1960) and ''American books'' (1963). In 1955 Corson delivered the Walter Scott Lectures in the University, on the state of 'Scott Studies', published as two articles in the [[University of Edinburgh Journal]], vol.18 (1955-57), in which he both surveyed the long history of scholarship on Scott, and took the opportunity to correct some biographical errors about the life of Scott. The final summation of Corson's scholarly life was his Notes and Index to [[Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960)|Sir Herbert Grierson]]'s Edition of the ''Letters of Sir Walter Scott'' (Oxford, 1979), in which he displayed both his deep knowledge of Scott's life and works, and his network of correspondence, but also his aptitude for indexing, first hinted at by Sharp in the 1930s.<br />
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Corson's obsession with Scott did not only manifest itself in his writings on the man. Corson also devoted much of his life to amassing a huge collection of materials by and about Scott, a collection quite unique in both its breadth and depth.<br />
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The collection can be divided into five categories: printed books, manuscripts, press cuttings, visual materials (prints, drawings and paintings), and realia.<br />
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The printed books themselves formed Corson's basic reference library; it was built up patiently throughout his adult life: he himself regarded it as containing 'practically every work … that the student of Scott is likely to want to consult'. The books number some 6,000 printed editions, mostly editions of Scott's works, including a sampling of first editions, but consisting in the main of later editions, particularly strong on the popular editions of the later 19th and early 20th century, mostly British, but with some American and European editions and translations. Among the highlights of this portion of the Corson Collection are a presentation copy from Scott to Anna Seward of ''The Chase'' (1796), Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's copy of the first edition of ''Waverley'' (1814), the Duke of Wellington's copy of ''St Ronan's Well'' (1824), and an early proof of ''The Lady of the Lake''.<br />
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Works about Scott also feature prominently, especially biographical and critical studies, with numerous editions of Lockhart's ''Life of Sir Walter Scott''. This category of materials also includes a large number of musical scores, playbills, and theatre programmes which have a connection with Scott, no matter how tenuous. Finally, there are a large number of books from the 18th century onwards concerning the Scottish Borders and other parts of Scotland and England associated with Scott. The printed books have all been catalogued into the Edinburgh University Library online catalogue.<br />
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The manuscript material is less comprehensive in its coverage, but includes a number of literary manuscripts such as the handwritten text of the only sermon Scott ever wrote, and a number of Scott letters. The main portion of the manuscripts, however, contains a large and rather eclectic array of letters by Scott scholars and others after his death, but referring in some way to Scott and his works.<br />
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The press cuttings contain references to Scott in the Scottish and UK press from the Centenary of Scott's death in 1932 to the late 1980's. They constitute an invaluable record of the presence of Scott in the national consciousness throughout the twentieth-century and would be of great interest to any scholar researching Scott's role in the the formation of national identity.<br />
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Perhaps the most interesting part of the whole collection is the section devoted to illustrative material. This term covers a multitude of visual formats, mostly unbound, and consisting of works of art on paper, but also including 25 oil paintings by artists such as David Roberts, Robert Scott Lauder, and Sir William Allan. The bulk of the illustrative material, however, is to be found in the collection of ca. 10,000 engravings, etchings, lithographs, photographs, and drawings, including original drawings by artists such as James Skene of Rubislaw and David Octavius Hill.<br />
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The realia in the collection are where Corson's obsession with Scott took hold in its most astonishing form, including not only miniature bed-warming pans, but toy soldiers, shortbread tins, tea towels, and other examples of material culture associated with Scott. The material is undoubtedly of serious interest to the researcher interested not only in Scott, but in material culture and national identity.<br />
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Both the realia and the illustrative material are currently being entered in an Image Database which supplies an image and description of each item.<br />
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Finally, mention should be made of Corson's most significant contribution to his own collection: an index which he referred to as his 'Scott Dictionary', some 200,000 cards containing notes on every aspect of Scott's life and works begun in 1935 and maintained up until his death in 1988.<br />
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The collection was sold by Corson to the University under an agreement in 1978, and it was transferred to the University Library in Edinburgh in 1989. After his death, Corson's widow generously bequeathed a sizeable estate to the University to maintain and develop the collection.<br />
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<div>Born in Edinburgh in 1913, the son of Henry J. Levitt, J.P., proprietor of Woodhouse Furniture Stores, Reginald Nathaniel Levitt was educated at Edinburgh Academy (1921-32). He went on to study at Oxford for one year before returning to Edinburgh to study at the University. He first matriculated in session 1933/34 and graduated MA (1937) and LLB (1939). <br />
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In 1935, he wrote to [[Leon_Trotsky_(1879-1940)|Leon Trotsky]], inviting him to stand as [[Rector]]. Trotsky was unable to accept. <br />
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After graduation, Levitt served in the Royal Army Service Corps during WW2. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the MBE. In 1963, he was appointed Honorary Colonel in the R.A.S.C. (Territorial Army). From 1962-66, he was convener of the pensions committee of the Royal British Legion, Scotland and he served as its Chairman 1968-71, for which service he received the OBE. He was Honorary Colonel Comandant of the Royal Corps of Transport, 1974-78.<br />
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From 1951, he served as Sheriff Substitute of Caithness, Sutherland, Orkney and Zetland at Wick and, from 1955, as Sheriff Substitute of Ayr and Bute at Kilmarnock. He died in Ayr on 11 December 1982, following a long illness.<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
Obituary, [[University of Edinburgh Journal]] (June 1983)<br />
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<div>Born in Edinburgh in 1913, the son of Henry J. Levitt, J.P., proprietor of Woodhouse Furniture Stores, Reginald Nathaniel Levitt was educated at Edinburgh Academy (1921-32). He went on to study at Oxford for one year before returning to Edinburgh to study at the University. He first matriculated in session 1933/34 and graduated MA (1937) and LLB (1939). <br />
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In 1935, he wrote to [[Leon_Trotsky_(1879-1940)|Leon Trotsky]], inviting him to stand as [[Rector]]. Trotsky was unable to accept. <br />
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After graduation, Levitt served in the Royal Army Service Corps during WW2. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the MBE. In 1963, he was appointed Honorary Colonel in the R.A.S.C. (Territorial Army). From 1962-66, he was convener of the pensions committee of the Royal British Legion, Scotland and he served as its Chairman 1968-71, for which service he received the OBE. He was Honorary Colonel Comandant of the Royal Corps of Transport, 1974-78.<br />
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From 1951, he served as Sheriff Substitute of Caithness, Sutherland, Orkney and Zetland at Wick and, from 1955, as Sheriff Substitute of Ayr and Bute at Kilmarnock. He died in Ayr on 11 December 1982, following a long illness.<br />
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<div>Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh. He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] on behalf of a group of students 'of all shades of political opinion'. Though honoured, he felt compelled to decline the invitation. <br />
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This was the same year that [[Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)]] was invited but also declined to stand. It was [[Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861-1936)|Viscount Allenby of Megiddo]] who went on to become the Edinburgh University Rector in 1935, though he died very suddenly in London the following year from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm - on 14 May 1936. [[Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960)|Sir Herbert Grierson]] was elected in the ensuing [[Rectorial Election, 1936|Rectorial Election]].<br />
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Trotsky had been exiled from Russia in 1929 and his reply to Levitt was written less than a fortnight before he left France, after two years there, to begin a year and a half in Norway. Just a year after the invitation from Edinburgh students, Trotsky settled in Mexico. On 20 August 1940, acting on the orders of Stalin, Ramon Mercader attacked Trotsky with an ice pick and he died the next day.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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Trotsky’s Diary in Exile, 1935 (Faber & Faber, 1958)<br />
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== Archives ==<br />
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*[[Letter from Leon Trotsky to the students of Edinburgh University, 7 June 1935]]<br />
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<div>Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh. He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] on behalf of a group of students 'of all shades of political opinion'. Though honoured, he felt compelled to decline the invitation. <br />
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This was the same year that [[Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)]] was invited but also declined to stand. It was [[Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861-1936)|Viscount Allenby of Megiddo]] who went on to become the Edinburgh University Rector in 1935, though he died very suddenly in London the following year from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm - on 14 May 1936. [[Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960)|Sir Herbert Grierson]] was elected in the ensuing [[Rectorial Election, 1936|Rectorial Election]].<br />
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Trotsky had been exiled from Russia in 1929 and his reply to Levitt was written less than a fortnight before he left France, after two years there, to begin a year and a half in Norway. Just a year after the invitation from Edinburgh students, Trotsky settled in Mexico. On 20 August 1940, acting on the orders of Stalin, Ramon Mercader attacked Trotsky with an ice pick and he died the next day.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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Trotsky’s Diary in Exile, 1935 (Faber & Faber, 1958)<br />
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== Archives ==<br />
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*[[Letter from Leon Trotsky to the students of Edinburgh University, 7 June 1935]]<br />
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