Blaikie, William Garden, 1820-1899 (Minister of Pilrig and Temperance Reformer)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 5 February 1820 - 11 June 1899
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Autographs of the Pan-Presbyterian Council of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
Fonds
Identifier: MS PAN
Scope and Contents
An album containing the autographs of the members of the Pan-Presbyterian Council (1877), also known as the Presbyterian Alliance and later The World Alliance of Reformed Churches.Autographs include Kenneth Macleay Phin (1816–1888), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1877, Sir Henry Wellwood-Moncreiff (1809-1883), John Tulloch (1823-1886), Rev. Prof. Robert Flint (1838-1910), and many names from all over the world.Album bound in green...
Dates:
1877
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections

Collection of 19th-century autograph letters assembled by the Rev. John Walker
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2103
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of c. 200 letters acquired by the Rev. John Walker (1855-1941), a Scottish-Australian autograph collector. The main fields of interest represented are geology, botany, theology, literature, academia, and politics. Names that feature particularly prominently include Walker's uncle John Stuart Blackie, Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh; William Garden Blaikie, Professor of Divinity at New College, Edinburgh; James Geikie, Professor of Geology at the...
Dates:
1792-1913
Papers of Earle Monteith MacPhail (1861-1937), Professor of History and Economics, Madras Christian College
Fonds
Identifier: MS MCP
Scope and Contents
Lecture notes taken during classes at New College, Edinburgh, 1883-1890. 16 quarto exercise books. Notes are written by Earle Monteith MacPhail, apart from in instances specifically noted. Earle MacPhail was the son of Rev. James Calder MacPhail, minister of Pilrig. Earle gives his address as Pilrig Manse in the front of each notebook. Some notebooks bear a stamp in the back, indicating that they were part of a student notebook offer run by Gardiner’s Stationers on South Bridge and Teviot...
Dates:
1883-1890
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of William Garden Blaikie (1820-1899)
Fonds
Identifier: MS BLAI
Scope and Contents
BLAI 1 Homiletical notes on the Gospels.
BLAI 2 Notes on the proceedings of the Convocation of Ministers of the Church of Scotland, November 1842, with introduction dated March 1846. Contains a short letter to a Rev Jaffray interleaved.
Dates:
c.1842 - c.1846
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
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