v. 2 has a slight change in title: Being a full, complete and genuine history of Scotland from...1329 to ...1514... Addison, William Innes. A roll of the graduates of the University of Glasgow from 31st December 1727, to 31st December 1897. With short biographical notes. Glasgow: James MacLehose & Sons, 1898. x p., 11., 696 p. 4°. † STK Anderson, James. The ladies of the Covenant; memoirs of distinguished Scottish female characters, embracing the period of the Covenant and the persecution. Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1852. 1 p.1., vxxxvi, 627 p., 16 pl. illus. 12°. Stuart 4180 Reviewed in Hogg's Instructor, new series, v. 7, p. 195-197, Edinburgh, 1851. Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1855. xxxvi, 627 p., 16 pl. illus. 12°. Stuart 4179 New York: Redfield, 1853. ZDVH 494 p. 2. ed. 12°. Ladies of the Reformation. Memoirs of distinguished female_characters, belonging to the period of the Reformation in the sixteenth century... London: CPA Blackie & Son, 1857. xvi p., 1 1., 3-683 p., 12 pl. 12°. *R-SNE The martyrs of the Bass. Bass Rock... Edinburgh [1848]. 382.) (In: The 8°. p. 1Stuart 7543 Anderson, John, the younger. Sketches of the Edinburgh clergy of the Established Church of Scotland... [By John Anderson, jr. Edinburgh: J. Anderson, jr., 1832. viii, 111 p., 6 port. 8°. Stuart 7880 Anderson, Peter John. Aberdonians abroad. (Scottish notes and queries. Aberdeen, 1896. sq. 8°. V. 9, p. 81-82.) CPA "De Scoto-Aberdonensibus in Universitate Parisiensi," 16th and 17th centuries. Anderson, William. The popular Scottish biography, being lives of eminent natives of Scotland. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co. 1842. iv, 795 p., 2 pl., 8 port. 12°. Stuart 7881 The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1864. 3 v. 4°. *R-AGH Barrett, Michael. Early Scottish saints. (Dublin review. London, 1899. 8°. V. 124, p. 348-372.) * DA Based on the Brev. Aberdonensis, Acta Sanctorum, and Forbes, Kalendars of Scottish saints. Behaviour, The, and character of Samuel Macpherson, Malcolm Macpherson, and Farquhar Shaw, the three Highland deserters, who were shot at the Tower, July the 18th, 1743... London: Printed, 1743. (Reprinted in: Gaelic Society of Inverness. Transactions. Inverness, 1875. 8°. v. 3, p. 154-166.) NDO Biography, continued. Collected Biography, continued. Boece, Hector. Hectoris Boetii Murthlacensium et Aberdonensium episcoporum vitae, edited and translated by James Moir. Aberdeen: New Spalding Club, 1894. xvii p., 1 1., v, 6-210 p., 1 fac., 1 pl. 4°. (New Spalding Club.) + CP Bourne, Henry Richard Fox. The Couttses of Edinburgh and London. 1 port. (In his: English merchants. London, 1866. 8°. v. 2, p. 120-147.) AB Some merchants. of Glasgow; especially Patrick Colquhoun, David Dale, and the Monteiths. (In his: English merchants... London, 1866. 8°. v. 2, p. 174210.) AB Branford, V. V. The patriotic historians of Scotland. (Macmillan's magazine. London, 1897. 8°. v. 76, p. 268-278.) * DA Lesley, Boece, Major, Buchanan, etc. Brunton, George, and DAVID HAIG. An historical account of the senators of the College of Justice, from its institution in MDXXXII. Edinburgh: T. Clark, 1832. xlviii, 567 p. 8°. XAS Carlyle, Thomas. Project of a national exhibition of Scottish portraits. (In his: Critical and miscellaneous essays. Boston, 1860. 8°. v. 4, p. 448-457.) NCZ Chambers, Robert. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen. Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1847. 4 v. port. 8°. AGH A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen. In four volumes. Originally edited by Robert Chambers. New edition, revised...with a supplemental volume, continuing the biographies to the present time. By the Rev. Thos. Thomson. Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1855. 5 v. port. 8°. Engraved title-page also. v. 2. v. 3. v. 4. v. 5. AGH the state in Scotland, from the beginning of the reign of King David 1. to the union of the two kingdoms... To which is added, an appendix, containing several original papers relating to the lives, and referring to them. v. 1. Edinburgh: R. Fleming & Co., printers, 1726. 6 p.l., 480 p. f°. †† AGH No more published. Crockett, William Shillinglaw. The Scott originals; an account of notables and worthies, the originals of characters in the Waverley novels. London: T. N. Foulis, 1912. xvi, 431(1) p., 3 fac., 17 pl., 22 port. 8°. AN Curwen, Henry. A history of booksellers, the old and the new. London: Chatto & Windus, 1873. 12°. *IIH p. 110-158: Constable, Cadell, and Black; p. 199233: William Blackwood; p. 234-251: Chambers; p. 399-411: Thomas Nelson. Dictionary of national biography. v. 163 with index to v. 1-14. Supplement, v. 1London, 1885-1901. 67 v. 8°. *R-AGH 3. Dowden, John, bishop of Edinburgh. The bishops of Scotland, being notes on the lives of all the bishops, under each of the sees, prior to the Reformation, by the late Right Rev. John Dowden. Edited by J. M. Thomson. Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1912. xxix, 472 p. 8°. ZLPK Fox, John. The history touching the persecution in Scotland, with the names and causes of such blessed martyrs which in the same country suffered for the Truth, after the time of Patrick Hamilton. (In his: Ecclesiastical history: containing the acts and monuments of martyrs... London, 1684. f°. v. 2, p. 511-531.) †† ZDK The cases recorded are: Sir John Borthwike (1540), Thomas Forret and others (1538), Robert Lambe and others in Perth (1543), George Wischart (1545), Adam Wallace (1550), Walter Mille (1558). The account of the trial and execution of Wishart was written by John Knox and published in London in 1547 or 1548. It is therefore the earliest printed work of the Scottish reformer. But one copy only of the tract is known to exist. It was reprinted by Fox in 1564 in the work above mentioned, and again by Knox himself in his History of the Reformation (Works, ed. by Laing, v. 1, p. 149-171) because Fox's work was costly 'and rare to be had.' Garden, Alexander. A theatre of Scottish worthies: and the lyf, doings, and deathe of William Elphinston, bishop of Aberdeen. [With preliminary notice by David Laing. Glasgow: privately printed, 1878. xvi, 201; xviii, 85 p., 3 fac., 1 pl., 1 NCE port. sq. 8°. (Hunterian Club.) Gardner, Alexander. Some notable Scottish architects. (Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow. Proceedings. Glasgow, EC 1908. 8°. v. 39, p. 73-91.) Gilfillan, George. The martyrs, heroes, and bards of the Scottish Covenant. New York: R. Carter & Brothers, 1853. 2 p.l., ZDVH vii-viii, 9-264 p., 8 pl. 16°. Graham, Henry Grey. A group of Scottish women. London: Methuen & Co. CP [1908. xvi, 343 p., 4 pl., 11 port. 8°. DerContents: 1. Scotswomen of early times vorguilla (1213-1290). 2. Some Scottish amazons3. Jane, "Black Agnes of Dunbar" (1313-1369). 4. Elizabeth, countess of Sutherland (1545-1629). duchess of Lauderdale (d. 1698). 5. Women of the Covenant. 6. Lady Grisell Baillie (1665-1746). 7. Anne, duchess of Buccleuch and Monmouth (16511732). 8. Catherine, duchess of Queensberry (d. 1777). 9. Miss "Nicky" Murray (d. 1777). Susannah, countess of Eglinton (d. 1780). Alison Cockburn (1713-1795). 12, 13. Elspeth Buchan (1738-1796) Isobel Pagan (1741-1821). 15. Jane, duchess of Gordon (1749-1812). 16. Lady Anne Barnard (1750-1825). 17. Mrs. Grant of Laggan (1755-1838). 18. Lady Louisa Stuart (1757-1851). 19. Miss Clementina Stirling Graham (1782-1877). 10. 11. Mrs. 14, Scottish men of letters in the eighteenth century. London: A. & C. Black, NDP 1908. xii, 441 p., 2 pl., 30 port. 8°. 1. Dawn of literature: Allan Ramsay, Hamilton of Bangour, Robert Blair. 2. Early Scottish philosophy: Hutcheson, David Hume. 3. John Home. 4. Principal Robertson. 5. Adam Ferguson, Dr. Hugh Blair, 6. Adam Smith. 7. William Wilkie, Dr. Blacklock. Literary judges: Lord Kames, Lord Monboddo, Lord Hailes. 8. James Boswell. 9. James Macpherson. 10. Dr. Thomas Reid, Dr. James Beattie. 11. Scottish men of letters in England: Mallet, Thomson, Smollet. 12. Women of letters: Lady Wardlaw, Lady Grisell Baillie, Mrs. Cockburn, Tean Elliot, Lady Anne Barnard, Lady Nairne. 13. Song writers: Skinner, Bruce, Fergusson. 14. Robert Burns. 15. Henry Mackenzie, Dugald Stewart, Close of the century. Haig, David, joint author. See Brunton, George, and DAVID HAIG. Harrower, John. Aberdeen alumni at other universities. Compiled by John Harrower. [v. 1. Aberdeen: University Press, 1911. 4°. (University of Aberdeen. Aberdeen University studies. no. 51.) [v.] 1. Oxford and Cambridge. STG Howie, John. Biographia Scoticana; or, A brief historical account of the most eminent Scots worthies...who testified or suffered for the cause of reformation in Scotland, from the beginning of the six The Scots worthies...who testified or suffered for the cause of Reformation in Scotland, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the year 1688...revised, corrected, and enlarged by a clergyman of the Church of Scotland... With a preface and notes by William M'Gavin. Glasgow: AGH W. R. M'Phun, 1835. 2 v. 8°. Irving, David. The lives of the Scotish poets; with preliminary dissertations, on the literary history of Scotland, and the early Scotish drama. Edinburgh: A. Lawrie, & Co., 1804. 2 v. AB 8°. v1: A dissertation on the literary history of Scotland. A dissertation on the early Scotish drama. The life of Thomas Lermont. The life of John Barbour. The life of Andrew Winton. The life of King James the First. The life of Henry the Minstrel. Intermediate sketches. The life of Robert Henryson. The life of William Dunbar. v. 2: The life of Gavin Douglas. The life of Sir David Lindsay. The life of John Bellenden, D.D. Intermediate sketches. The life of Sir Richard Maitland. The life of Alexander Scot. The life of Alexander Arbuthnot. The life of Alexander Montgomery. The life of King James the Sixth. The life of Allan Ramsay. The life of Alexander Ross. The life of Alexander Geddes. The life of Robert Fergusson. The life of Robert Burns. Irving, Joseph. The book of Scotsmen eminent for achievements in arms and arts, church and state, law, legislation, and literature, commerce, science, travel, and philanthropy. Paisley: A. Gardner, 1881. ix, 573(1) p. 8°. AGH Keddie, Henrietta, and JEAN L. WATSON. The songstresses of Scotland. By Sarah Tytler pseud. of Henrietta Keddie, and J. L. Watson. London: Strahan and Co., AGH 1871. 2 v. 12°. Knight, William. Some nineteenth century Scotsmen. Being personal recollections. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson, & AGH Ferrier, 1903. 456 p. 8°. Leighton, John. Scenes in Scotland, with historical illustrations, and biographical anecdotes. Glasgow: Richard Griffin & Co., 1831. xii, 168 p., 16 pl. 12°. CPW Livingstone, John. Memorable characteristics, and remarkable passages of divine providence, exemplified in the lives of some of the most eminent ministers and professors in the Church of Scotland, collected by J. Livingstone. (In: W. K. Tweedie, Select biographies... Edinburgh, 1845. 8°. v. 1, p. 293-348.) AGH MacGregor, James, dean of Lismore. Short chronicle, being chiefly an obituary relating to the Highlands, and compiled early in the sixteenth century. Communi Biography, continued. Collected Biography, continued. cated by Donald Gregory. (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Archæologia Scotica. Edinburgh, 1831. 4°. v. 3, p. 317328.) + СРА Macpherson, Alexander. Sketches of the old ministers of Badenoch. (Gaelic Society of Inverness. Transactions. Inverness, 1889-90. 8°. v. 14, p. 193-216; v. 15, p. 216-238.) NDO Sketches of the Protestant ministers of Badenoch since the Reformation. (In his: Glimpses of church and social life in the Highlands in olden times. Edinburgh, 1893. 4°. p. 191-251.) † CP Memoirs and trials of the political martyrs of Scotland; persecuted during the years 1793-4-5. (Tait's Edinburgh magazine. Edinburgh, 1837. 4°. v. 4, p. 120.*) * DA Moir, James, editor. See Boece, Hector. Munch, Peter Andreas. A catalogue of the bishops of Orkney. 1112-1477. (Bannatyne Club. Miscellany. Edinburgh, 1855. 4°. v. 3, p. 177-196.) † CP Myln, Alexander. The lives of the bishops of Dunkeld. (Literary and Antiquarian Society of Perth. Transactions. Perth, 1827. 4°. p. 31-68.) CA Mylne, Robert Scott. Notices of the king's master wrights of Scotland, with writs of their appointments. (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Proceedings. Edinburgh, 1900. sq. 8°. v. 34, p. 288-296.) CPA Obituary, An, from the rental book of the preceptory of St. Anthony, near Leith, 1526. (Bannatyne Club. Miscellany. Edinburgh, 1836. 4°. v. 2, p. 297-303.) † CP Pinkerton, John. The Scotish gallery; or, Portraits of eminent persons of Scotland...with brief accounts of the characters represented, and an introduction on the rise and progress of painting in Scotland. London: E. Harding, 1799. 65 1., 52 port. fo. Stuart 1233 Extra illustrated with portrait of the author and another of George Jameson. Portraits of leading reformers... With an accompanying essay by George Hume. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1850. 9 p., 15 pl. fo. Stuart 1239 Contents: Knox preaching in St. Giles, George Wishart, John Knox, George Buchanan, and House of Knox in Edinburgh. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1851. 9 p.. 2 pl., 13 port. fo. †† AO Reid, Hugh Gilzean. Unaccredited heroes. (Gentleman's magazine. London, 1890. 8°. v. 269, p. 384-396.) * DA London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. 1 p.1., 15 p. 8°. * C p.v.371 Presidential address to the Birmingham and Midland Scottish Society. Reprinted from the Gentleman's magazine, Oct., 1890. Reid, James. Memoirs of the lives and writings of those eminent divines who convened in the Assembly at Westminster, in the seventeenth century. Paisley: S. & A. Young, printers, 1811-15. 2 v. 8°. AB Contains memoirs of the following Scottish commissioners in v. 2, p. 270-362: Robert Baillie, George Gillespie, Alexander Henderson, Samuel Rutherford. Scot, Sir John. The staggering state of Scottish statesmen from 1550 to 1650. With a memoir of the author, and historical illustrations by Rev. Charles Rogers. (Royal Historical Society. Transactions. London, 1875. 2. ed. 8°. v. 1, p. 278-429.) CA Edinburgh: W. Paterson, 1872. CP v(i), 143 p. 8°. Scott, Hew. Fasti ecclesiæ Scoticanæ: The succession of ministers in the parish churches of Scotland, from the Reformation, A. D. 1560, to the present time. Edinburgh: W. Paterson, 1866-71. 3 v. sq. 4°. ZWGS v. 1, part 1: Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale. v. 1, part 2: Synods of Merse and Teviotdale, Dumfries, and Galloway. v. 2, part 1: Synod of Glasgow and Ayr. v. 2, part 2: Synods of Fife, and Perth and Stirling. v. 3, part 1: Synods of Argyll, Glenelg, Moray, Ross, Sutherland and Caithness, Orkney and Zetland. v. 3, part 2: Synods of Aberdeen, and Angus and Mearns. The work gives an account of the life and labors, date of birth and death of every minister of the Church of Scotland within the period covered. Scottish, The, monks. (North British review. Edinburgh, 1845. 8°. v. 2, p. 360389.) * DA Shearer, J., the younger. Antiquities of Strathearn, with historical and traditionary tales and biographical sketches of celebrated individuals belonging to the district. Crieff: D. Philips, 1881. 2 p.1., 94 p. 16°. CR Small, John. Sketches of early Scottish alchemists: Michael Scott, King James IV., Sir George Erskine of Innertiel. (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Proceedings. Edinburgh, 1876. sq. 8°. v. 11. p. 179-197.) CPA Taylor, William Cooke. The modern British Plutarch... New York: Harper & Bros., 1846. 365 p. 12°. AGH The Scottish biographies are: Robert Burns, Lord Erskine, Sir James Mackintosh, Sir John Moore, Sir Walter Scott, James Watt, Sir David Wilkie. Thomson, Charles W. Scotsmen as explorers and travellers. illus. (Caledonian. New York, 1913. v. 12, p. 13-20.) * DD Tweedie, William King. Select biographies. Edited for the Wodrow Society, chiefly from the manuscripts in the library of the Faculty of Advocates. Edinburgh: printed for the Wodrow Society, 1845. 2 v. 8°. AGH Tytler, Patrick Fraser. Lives of Scottish worthies. London: John Murray, 183132. 2 v. AGH 16°. v. 1. Alexander the Third; Michael Scott; Sir William Wallace; Robert Bruce, king of Scotland. v. 2. Robert Bruce, continued; John Barbour; Andrew Wynton, prior of Lochleven; John de Fordun; James the First [of Scotland]. Warrick, John. The moderators of the Church of Scotland from 1690 to 1740. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1913. 388 p., 6 port. 8°. ZWX Notable men & women of Aberdeenshire. (Scottish notes and queries. Aberdeen, 1894-99. sq. 8°. v. 8, p. 56-58, 73-75, 88-89, 102-103, 123-124, 139-140, 164165, 188-189; v. 9, p. 9-11, 24-26, 41-43, 5759, 68-69, 92-93, 105-106, 123-124, 137-138, 156-157, 164-165, 187-189; v. 10, p. 8-9, 2223. 41-42, 58-59. 74-76, 85-86, 104-105, 120122, 137-138, 169-170; v. 11, p. 8-10, 24-25, 34-36, 51-52. 69-71, 85-87, 99-100, 116-118, 132-134, 147-149, 165-167, 180-182; v. 12, p. 35. 20-22, 36-38, 51-53, 67-69, 100-102, 117-119, 132-134, 149-150, 165-167, 181-184.) CPA Notable men and women of Argyleshire. (Scottish notes and queries. Aberdeen, 1903-07. sq. 8°. series, 2, v. 4, p. 163-164, 179-181; series 2, v. 5, p. 4-6, 19-21, 34-37, 53-55, 67-70, 84-86, 98-100, 132-133, 148-151, 163-166, 178-180; series 2, v. 6, p. 24, 18-20, 34-36, 50-51, 66-68, 82-84, 98-100, 114-116, 130-132, 147-150, 162-165, 178-180; series 2, v. 7, p. 2-4, 21-22, 34-36, 67-69, 82-83, 98-99, 118-119, 137-138, 146-147, 163164, 181; series 2, v. 8, p. 46.) CPA Notable men and women of Ayrshire. (Scottish notes and queries. Aberdeen, 1890-92. sq. 8°. v. 4, p. 64-65, 92-93, 112-114, 139-140, 159-160, 175-177, 197-198, 216-217, 234-236; v. 5, p. 10-12, 28-29, 38-40, 58-60, 68-70, 91-92, 106-107, 122-123, 138-139, 152-153, 169-170, 185-187; v. 6, p. 5-7, 26-27, 39-40, 49-50, 66-69.) CPA Notable men and women of Banffshire. (Scottish notes and queries. Aberdeen, 1892-94. sq. 8°. v. 6, p. 89-90, 103105, 122-124, 137-138, 152-153, 169-171, 183186; v. 7, p. 7-8, 25-27, 43-44, 57-58, 73-75, 90-91, 100-102, 115-118.) CPA Notable men and women of Berwickshire. (Scottish notes and queries. Aberdeen, 1900-03. sq. 8°. series 2, v. 1, p. 170-172; series 2, v. 2, p. 4-6, 22-24, 36-38, 52-55, 68-70, 84-86, 98-100, 115-117, 135-137, 149-151, 165-167; series 2, v. 3, p. 3-5, 21-23, 35-38, 51-54, 68-70, 83-85, 100-103, 117-119, 132-134, 151-153; series 2, v. 4, p. 10.)CPA Notable men and women of Forfarshire. (Scottish notes and queries. Aberdeen, 1907. sq. 8°. series 2, v. 8, p. 118120, 137-140, 146-147, 162-163, 186-188.) CPA Wodrow, Robert. Collections upon the lives of the reformers and most eminent ministers of the Church of Scotland. v. 2, part 2. Glasgow, 1848. Club.) (Maitland ZWG Wodrow's bio Divines of the Edited by Rev. Selections from graphical collections. north-east of Scotland. Robert Lippe. Aberdeen: New Spalding Club, 1890. lxxxv p., 1 1., 360 p., 2 port. 4°. (New Spalding Club.) † CP INDIVIDUAL BIOGRAPHY ABERCROMBIE, DR. JOHN Bruce, John. A sermon preached in St. Andrew's Free Church, Edinburgh, November 24, 1844, being the Sabbath succeeding the funeral of John Abercrombie, M.D.... Edinburgh: John Johnstone, 1844. 26 p. 8°. ZDVH p.v. 1 St. Andrew's Free Church, Edinburgh. Extract from the records of the kirk session and deacon's court of St. Andrew's Free Church, Edinburgh, relative to the late Dr. Abercrombie. [Edinburgh, 1844.] 8 p. 8°. ZDVH p.v.1 Printed by order of these courts for circulation among the members of the congregation. |