Biography
Charles Mackie was born in Limekilns, Fife, on 31 March 1688. He was
educated at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1705, and then he studied
abroad at Groeningen in the Netherlands, 1707-1708, and at Leiden, 1715. During
the purge of Jacobites within Scotland's university system a vacancy for Mackie
seemed possible, and in 1719 he was offered the new Chair of Universal History
at Edinburgh University. He held this until 1753. Professor Charles Mackie died
in 1770.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-423
Scope and Contents
Volumes:
Index Funereus 29 Annorum, June 1727 - June 1756 (Dc.1.47)
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)
Annotationes in ontologiam Gerrardi de Vries, 1703 (Dc.7.79)
Commonplace book containing...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1703-1756
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-83
Scope and Contents
The papers of Lauriston William Sharp at Gen. 2157 consist of printed material such as journals and sheets; numerous bundles of scholarly notes on writers both in manuscript and typescript; notebooks; library notes and card indexes; and, other miscellaneous papers. At Dk.1.29 there are Sharp's notes and miscellaneous items on James Kirkwood (circa 1650-1708) who worked on the establishment of libraries in Scotland, and at Dk.7.51 typescript and notes on Charles Mackie (1688-1770) the first...
Dates:
1872-1955