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John Finlay

Corruption, Regionalism and Legal Practice in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: The Rise and Fall of David Armstrong, Advocate

Recent (Social), History, Cartography, Biography

TDGNHAS Series III, 86 (2012), 145(4.08 MB)

Abstract

The career of David Armstrong was unusual by the standards of the eighteenth-century Scottish bar but at its height it presents a picture that was in some ways a signpost for the future development of the legal profession. Financial problems, consequent to the collapse of the Ayr Bank, reveal the importance to him of his local Dumfries connections and also led him into a scandal by which his career was cut short. This article examines that scandal and draws from Armstrong’s career a number of conclusions about the nature of contemporary legal practice in Scotland that have a wider resonance for the history of the profession generally during the long eighteenth century.

M.G. Cavers

Crannogs in South-West Scotland [Lecture to the Society, 25th March, 2006]

Iron Age, Roman and Romano British, Early Mediaeval, Prehistory (General), Archaeology (General), Proceedings

TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 180(3.8 MB)

Abstract

Lecture to the Society, 25th March, 2006. Recent work on the lake dwellings of Dumfries and Galloway through the South-West Crannog
Survey a condition monitoring project funded by Historic Scotland has provided a series of site surveys and radiocarbon da