John Hutton MD and the Dumfries Presbytery Library [Lecture to the Society, 4th February, 2005]
Recent, Recent (Social), Recent (Literature & Art), Antiquarian, Genealogy
TDGNHAS Series III, 79 (2005), 192(4.05 MB)
Abstract
Summary of a lecture delivered to the Society on 4th February 2005.
A study of the Library bequeathed to the Presbytery of Dumfries in 1712 by John Hutton MD MP, to which later gifts and purchases were added. Hutton, a native of Caerlaverock, studied in