Papers of Andrew Monro Lang
Scope and Contents
Box 1:
- File - Correspondence, general
- File - DNB entries - Craufurd, and Dempster
- File - Agriculture
- Folder - Correspondence, Dempster permissions from various institutions
Box 2:
- File - Banking, Fisheries, Roads
- File - Boswell and Burke
- File - Haldane, Brodie
- Bundle of loose papers - Papers in St. Andrews University Library
Box 3:
- File - Transcripts of letters (2) - William Smith, Sam Heming, Henry Dundas, Gilbert Elliot, Laing mss, Carlyle, Thorkelin
- File - Letters of George Dempster to Sir Adam Fergusson, 1756-1813
- Bundle of loose papers - Blair Adam muniments
Box 4:
- File - Transcripts of letters (3) - British Fishery Society, Dr. Iain Boyle, Saltoun
- File - Dempster, Chapters 0-8
- File - Dempster, Chapters 9-19
- File - George Dempster, Skibo talk
Box 5:
- File - George Dempster, Toronto letters I, Vols.1-4
- File - George Dempster, Toronto letters III, Vols.7-19
- File - Dundee, Forfar, Skibo, and Rogers
- Bundle of loose papers
Box 6:
- File - East India Company, Secondary sources
- File - East India Company, India Office and Jamaica
- File - Enlightenment / Universities, Clubs
Box 7:
- File - History of Parliament, Debates
- File - Other House of Commons, Harris Debates, Namier and Brooke
- File - House of Commons Politics I (Secondary sources), Administrations
- File - House of Commons Politics II
Box 8:
- File - Scotland and America, Emigration
- File - 'The Scots Magazine'
- File - Reading lists etc.
- Bundle of loose papers
Box 9:
- File - Miscellaneous I
- File - James Ker, John Leslie
- File - Letham Archive, Lunan and Vinney Minutes, HMC Reports
- File - Correspondence, Edwin Mellen Press, DNB
Box 10:
- File - Politics I
- File - Politics II
- File - Politics III
Dates
- Creation: 1990-1998
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Biographical / Historical
Andrew Monro Lang was a career architect at the Scottish Office. In 1979 he was awarded the degree of M.Phil. (Edinburgh University) for his work, The role of the planner in Scottish local government. Then, in 1996 he obtained his Ph.D. (also at Edinburgh University) for his research on George Dempster of Dunnichen, the 18th century politician and improver.
Lang wrote the biography of George Dempster of Dunnichen (1732–1818) for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), and in 1998 A life of George Dempster, Scottish M.P. of Dunnichen (1732-1818) published by Lewiston, N.Y. and the Edwin Mellen Press, Lampeter.
Andrew Monro Lang died suddenly in 2000.
Extent
10 boxes
Physical Location
CLX-A-317 to CLX-A-326
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired 2001. Accession no: E2001.30.
Processing Information
Catalogue updated by Graeme D. Eddie 16 December 2015
Creator
Subject
- Title
- Papers of Andrew Monro Lang
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Box: CLX-A-317 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: CLX-A-318 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: CLX-A-319 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: CLX-A-320 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: CLX-A-321 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: CLX-A-322 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: CLX-A-323 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: CLX-A-324 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: CLX-A-325 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: CLX-A-326 (Mixed Materials)
Repository Details
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