Principals, University
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Sir David Smith, Principal of Edinburgh University, 1987-1994
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1085
Scope and Contents
The boxes contain 39 files and 3 scrapbooks. The files cover a variety of subjects, from: appointment as Principal; financial crisis; recovery plan; restructuring; graduation addresses; talks and speeches; anglicisation; new University logo; and, the installation of Muriel Gray as rector. The scrapbooks contain cuttings or copies of cuttings on: the closure of the Dental School; the anglicisation of Edinburgh University; attacks on the University as inefficient; league tables; cuttings...
Dates:
1986-2006
Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton
Fonds — Box MS.2300
Identifier: Coll-37
Scope and Contents
The papers, which are substantial, deal almost exclusively with Appleton's scientific work. There is little personal or private correspondence and almost no surviving material, apart from lectures, speeches and addresses, relating to his public life as scientific administrator or university principal. There are, however, a good run of diaries and engagement books and extensive folders of notes, research ideas, manuscript calculations and data from all periods of Appleton's career, as well as...
Dates:
c 1918-1973
Papers of Sir William Turner, 1861-1912
Sub-Fonds — Box CLX-A-1142
Identifier: Coll-1937/1
Scope and Contents
This sub-fonds contains mostly letters and certificates relating to honours awarded to Sir William Turner throughout his life, such as the freedom of the city of Edinburgh, honorary memberships to scientific societies, membership to the Order of the Bath and the German Order Pour le Mérite, etc. Also includes documents relating to Turner's anatomy licence, and an envelope entitled ‘her last letter – obituary notices’ containing the last letter of his wife...
Dates:
1861-1912
Papers relating to Robert Rollock
Fonds — Volume Dc.4.68
Identifier: Coll-475
Scope and Contents
The material bound together consists of: 'Commentarius in primam beati Apostoli Petri Epistolam, a D. Roberto Rolloco ... inchoatus, et ab henrico Charterisio ... absolutus, 1627; and 'Latin epitaphs on Rollock by various friends and colleagues', circa 1627.
Dates:
17th century