3090-5

P.G. Williams and James Williams

Addenda to the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Parishes in Volume II of The Statistical Account of Scotland, by Robert Riddell of Glenriddel

Antiquarian, Biography, Parish History

TDGNHAS Series III, 90 (2016), 79(2.1 MB)

Abstract

At the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society meeting on the 17 October 1913, Mr Hugh S. Gladstone MA, FRSE, FZS, FSA(Scot) read as his Presidential address: Addenda to the Statistical Account of Dumfriesshire and Galloway written at the end of the Eighteenth Century by Capt. Robert Riddell LLD, FSA(Scot).3 Gladstone had found in his own library six volumes of the Statistical Account of Scotland, volume I and volumes III to VII. As Volume I and volumes III to VI contained annotations by Robert Riddell, Gladstone assumed that Riddell had annotated all of the first six volumes. He regretted that all his efforts to trace volume II had failed and hoped that the publication of his paper would lead to its discovery.