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Papers of Andrew Monro Lang

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1697

Scope and Contents

Box 1:

  1. File - Correspondence, general
  2. File - DNB entries - Craufurd, and Dempster
  3. File - Agriculture
  4. Folder - Correspondence, Dempster permissions from various institutions

Box 2:

  1. File - Banking, Fisheries, Roads
  2. File - Boswell and Burke
  3. File - Haldane, Brodie
  4. Bundle of loose papers - Papers in St. Andrews University Library

Box 3:

  1. File - Transcripts of letters (2) - William Smith, Sam Heming, Henry Dundas, Gilbert Elliot, Laing mss, Carlyle, Thorkelin
  2. File - Letters of George Dempster to Sir Adam Fergusson, 1756-1813
  3. Bundle of loose papers - Blair Adam muniments

Box 4:

  1. File - Transcripts of letters (3) - British Fishery Society, Dr. Iain Boyle, Saltoun
  2. File - Dempster, Chapters 0-8
  3. File - Dempster, Chapters 9-19
  4. File - George Dempster, Skibo talk

Box 5:

  1. File - George Dempster, Toronto letters I, Vols.1-4
  2. File - George Dempster, Toronto letters III, Vols.7-19
  3. File - Dundee, Forfar, Skibo, and Rogers
  4. Bundle of loose papers

Box 6:

  1. File - East India Company, Secondary sources
  2. File - East India Company, India Office and Jamaica
  3. File - Enlightenment / Universities, Clubs

Box 7:

  1. File - History of Parliament, Debates
  2. File - Other House of Commons, Harris Debates, Namier and Brooke
  3. File - House of Commons Politics I (Secondary sources), Administrations
  4. File - House of Commons Politics II

Box 8:

  1. File - Scotland and America, Emigration
  2. File - 'The Scots Magazine'
  3. File - Reading lists etc.
  4. Bundle of loose papers

Box 9:

  1. File - Miscellaneous I
  2. File - James Ker, John Leslie
  3. File - Letham Archive, Lunan and Vinney Minutes, HMC Reports
  4. File - Correspondence, Edwin Mellen Press, DNB

Box 10:

  1. File - Politics I
  2. File - Politics II
  3. 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

Title
Papers of Andrew Monro Lang
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository

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