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Displaying 1 - 10 of 236 items… January. The speaker, Penny Eley, Emeritus Professor of Medieval French at Sheffield University, described the background to Le Roman de Fergus , a story of medieval knights, a white stag and the son of a Galloway peasant who became King of Lothian. Composed during the early years of the thirteenth century, …
… Published in November 2025 is King Arthur: Medieval British Literature and Modern Critical Tradition by … Morte Darthure 12. Afterword Description King Arthur: Medieval British Literature and Modern Critical Tradition is … of Britain’s history and early literature. It begins with a compelling demonstration of ‘King’ Arthur as no figure of …
Biography: William Fleming Cormack
… and Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh. His university studies were interrupted when, in 1940, he enlisted in the … antiquarian societies. His association with this society commenced with his election in 1951 — following in the … Surface Finds on Burnswark'. Ibid, p.189. 1962 'Two Coins from Glenluce Sand Dunes and One from Dryfesdale'. …
Meeting: Letterpress Printing
… career as a printer in 1955 when he became an apprentice compositor at Dinwiddie's. At that time, there were five printing houses in … the Father of the Chapel. The speaker then took his audience on a virtual walk through Dinwiddie's as he knew it …
Meeting: Maria Riddell — the Friend of Burns
… Burns' biographical details are familiar to most Dumfries audiences; Maria's are less well-known. Maria Banks Woodley … of William Woodley, owner of plantations in the West Indies and Captain-General of the Leeward Islands. It was in … and of parliamentary reform in Britain. Having much in common, she and Burns corresponded in 1792 and 1793. Late in …
Wood Pigot personal list: Pigot Personal, Dumfries & Maxwelltown, 1825–26
… Anderson, every Wednesday'. Armstrong , Baillie [Member of Committee for the Poors' Hospital] Poors' Hospital (St … Street) Note: Merchants, Tradesmen &c., Academies (Ladies Boarding and Day) Butters , Wm. [Carrier to Edinburgh] … Tradesmen &c., Bleachers Cummius , Walter [Teacher] Note: Ladies' Free School Cunningham , Jas. [Clog or Patten Maker] …
Biography: William George Gibson
… in seeking to popularise various branches of knowledge, died on Monday morning at two o'clock, in the Royal … post was his great-grandfather, Mr William Gibson, who died in 1802. His grandfather, Mr John Gibson, preferred a … entitled "A Medical Sketch of Dumfriesshire," and he accompanied Captain Scoresby on an Arctic expedition in which …
Biography: G.F. Scott-Elliot, F.R.G.S., F.L.S
… chair from 1902 to 1909. The period of his Presidency coincided with one of those ebb tides which such societies … and when towards the close of his Presidency he saw the welcome and unmistakeable signs of the incoming tide, it was … has, of recent years, lived in the south of England, but he died at Dumfries on 20th June last [1934] at the age of …
Wood Pigot personal list: Pigot Personal, Dumfries & Maxwelltown, 1837-38
… Adamson , Robert [Agent (bank)] Bank, British Linen Company - , Irish Street (Irish Street) Note: Bankers - … [Slater] Townhead Street (Townhead Street) Note: Slaters Brodie , John [Game dealer] Townhead Street (Townhead Street) … Shopkeepers and also Spirit Dealers) Campbell , Jno. M'Candie, Esqr Craigs (Craigs Road) Note: Nobility, Gentry and …