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University of Edinburgh -- Alumni and alumnae

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Commemorative certificate presented to Dr William Macleod at the 1937 Medical Graduates Golden Jubilee, and booklet listing said graduates, 1987

 File — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0093
Scope and Contents

This is a commemorative certificate in vellum presented to Dr William Macleod at the 1937 Medical Graduates Golden Jubilee that took place in 1987, to thank him for organising alumni reunions over the years. It is accompanied by a booklet listing said graduates.

Dates: 1987

Diaries of Janet Beaton

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2049
Content Description This collection consists of the diaries written by Janet Beaton between 1934 and 1949, and from 1962 until her death in 2018. The early diaries relate to her experience of wartime (for example, her 1939 diary includes her eye-witness account of a "Humbie Heinkel" over East Lothian. This was the first German aircraft to be brought down over mainland Britain during the Second World War.), and to her days at the University of Edinburgh. Subsequent diaries relate to her family, her many travels...
Dates: 1934-2018

Julius Nyerere - film interview with student, 1961

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2031
Scope and Contents

Interview with then Prime Minister of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere, by an unknown student. It runs for approximately 20 minutes. The intyerview itself runs for just over 7 minutes and focuses on education. The remainder comprises silent footage taken at various locations.

Dates: 1961

Letters relevant to the Round Table Club and referring to John Gray McKendrick, 1908

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1324
Identifier: Coll-1694
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of two letters.The first is dated Edinburgh, 27 June 1908, and is from "your old friends", the "other surviving members" of the Round Table Club, to "Dear McKendrick". It goes on: "thank you very heartily for your labour of love. You bring back very vividly those happy times, and make us young again. We are especially grateful to you for what you say of those who have got [sic] before us, and we again see and hear their friends faces and their songs and...
Dates: 1908

Material relating to Iain Coutts MacWilliam, brewing scientist and Edinburgh University graduate

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1620
Scope and Contents Box 1: Material created from Primary and Secondary School studies - Certificates of Merit, Chapelton School, Co. of Renfrew, 1932-1935; Church of Scotland, Sunday School, Proficiency in Religious Knowledge, 1935; Certificates of Merit, Trinity Academy, 1937-1941; British Red Cross Society, Certificate, First Aid, 1942; and, news clipping about Leith schoolboy foresters [July-August 1942] with Trinity...
Dates: 1943-2013

Papers of Andrew Monro Lang

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1697
Scope and Contents File - Correspondence, general File - DNB entries - Craufurd, and Dempster File - Agriculture Folder - Correspondence, Dempster permissions from various institutions File - Banking, Fisheries, Roads File - Boswell and Burke ...
Dates: 1990-1998

Papers of Colonel Cecil Charles Murison

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2066
Content Description This fonds consists of the papers of Colonel Cecil Charles Murison, physician and surgeon in the Indian Medical Service. It contains: Certificates earned when he was studying in Edinburgh and in Liverpool, and in the Indian Military Service (1891-1930); Published medical articles by Col. Murison and some related correspondence (1901-1926); Small portrait photograph...
Dates: 1891-1942

Papers of Flora Philip

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1672
Scope and Contents Diploma, Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (1889) Certificate, Practical Efficiency in Teaching, University of Cambridge (1889) Certificate, Theory, History and Practice of Teaching, University of Cambridge (1889) Degree certificate, MA, University of Edinburgh (1893) Photograph of the three surviving 1893 women...
Dates: 1889-1943

Papers of Jacobus Louw Potter FRCP FACP Executive Dean Faculty of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, and Dr Elizabeth Mackay Potter

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1651
Scope and Contents The Papers of Jacobus Louw Potter, and of Dr Elizabeth Mackay Potter, are comprised of: 1 x folder - correspondence, 1981-1987 1 x folder - correspondence, contracts and other material relating to film And so goodbye, 2003-2004 1 x folder - graduation material, programmes, seating plans, dinner menus etc - 1981-1987 2 x...
Dates: 1942-2007

Papers of James Robert Stott

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-390
Identifier: Coll-2041
Content Description This small fonds consists of the papers, portrait, and medals of Dr James Robert Stott, OBE, World War I Captain and graduate in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. It includes: Four First World War medals in a "Ernest Jones" box: The British Military Medal, The Victory Medal (Great Britain), an OBE Officer Badge, Military Division, and a tripartite medal with smaller versions of the three...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1914-1919; 1954