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Biographies

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Papers related to later years, 1970s-1980s

 Sub-Fonds — Box CLX-A-116
Identifier: Coll-705/4
Scope and Contents This sub-fonds contains a file of newspaper clippings, reports, booklets, photos (including a photographs of children evacuated to Taplow Court during the Second World War), pamphlets, and correspondence from Marjorie Rackstraw's life, largely concerning her involvement with the Hampstead Old People's Housing Trust (HOP Housing Trust). The second folder contains letters and documents of people who knew her, working to write her obituary after her death in 1981. The third of three folders...
Dates: 1970s-1980s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Marjorie Rackstraw

Presentation to Dott of his portrait by Sir William Hutchinson, June 1960

 File
Identifier: Coll-32/A.16
Scope and Contents

File relating to the presentation to Dott of his portrait by Sir William Hutchinson, June 1960. The material includes; manuscript texts of speeches by Sir Geoffrey Jefferson and Professor Adams McConnell and Dott's letters of thanks to both, also his speech of thanks at the presentation (these documents include biographical information and reminiscences) and a photograph taken at the presentation.

Dates: June 1960
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Biographical and personal

Short biography of Sir John Jackson, from Heywood's Authentic Series of Press Biographies , February 1902

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1490 Box 20
Scope and Contents

Short biography of Sir John Jackson, from Heywood's Authentic Series of Press Biographies, pritned in February 1902.

Dates: February 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir John Jackson / Box list / Loose papers and printed material

Typescript of ‘Christian stalwarts’ by William H Clark

 Fonds
Identifier: MS CLA 2
Scope and Contents

Typescript short studies on 'Christian stalwarts' such as Peter Waldo (c.1170), John Hus (1369-1415), Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), Martin Luther (1483-1546), John Calvin (1509-1564), Wycliffe, Tyndale, Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley, John Knox (c. 1510-1572), Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), John Wesley (1703-1791), David Livingstone (1813-1873), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960). Written by William H. Clark.

Dates: 1972
Found in: New College Library Special Collections