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Businesses (22)
- 7:84 (Scotland) Theatre Company Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Alhambra Theatre, Dundee Dundee, Angus
- Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre, Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Dennistoun, Buchanan & Co, merchants Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Dr Douglas, physician London
- Dundee Repertory Theatre Dundee, Angus
- Glasgow Shipping Co Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Hislop Welsh & Humphries, architects Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Howard & Wyndham Ltd, theatre proprietors Edinburgh, Midlothian
- John Hopkins & Co Ltd, whisky distillers Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Maclehose Group Ltd, printers Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- MacLehose, Jackson and Co., bookseller, publisher, and printer, Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Metropole Theatre Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- National Theatre of Scotland Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Pitlochry Festival Theatre Pitlochry, Perthshire
- Royal Lyceum Theatre Co Ltd, Edinburgh Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Scottish Opera Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- The Arches, arts venue, Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Theatre Babel, theatre company, Glasgow
- Tron Theatre, Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Untitled Projects, theatre company, Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Organisations (52)
- 6th Battalion Cameron Highlanders Reunion Club
- Adam Smith Club, London London
- Association of University Teachers in Scotland
- Blythswood Club, Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Church Service Society
- College Literary Society, Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Edinburgh International Fringe Festival Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Free Church of Scotland Scotland
- Free Church Students Theological Society, Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgay! Festival, LGBTQ+ arts festival, Glasgow
- Glasgow Bibliographical Society Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgow Botanic Gardens Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgow Civic Society Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgow Council of Tenants Associations Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgow Drawing Room Music Society Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgow Free Church Students' Theological Society Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgow Gaelic Chaple Society Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgow University Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgow University 88 Medical Club Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgow University Medico-Chirurgical Society Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgow University Missionary Association Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgow University Missionary Association Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgow University Ossianic Society Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgow University Speculative Society Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgow University Students Settlement Society Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Glasgow University Twentieth Century Club Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Highland Divinity Students Fellowship, Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate London
- Imaginate, theatre and dance for children and young people, Edinburgh Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Kilmaronock Parish Church Kilmaronock, Dunbartonshire
- Langside Parish Church Literary Association, Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Maitland Club (historical) Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Mayfest (arts festival), Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Orpheus Club, Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Outspoken Arts Scotland Ltd Scotland
- Paisley Beaconsfield Club and Conservative Association Paisley, Renfrewshire
- Paisley Players Club Paisley, Renfrewshire
- Pantheon (debating) Society, Edinburgh Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Ruskin Society, Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Scottish Ballet Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Scottish Council of Tenants Associations
- Scottish Permissive Bill and Temperance Association: Ladies Auxiliary
- Scottish Theatre Archive
- Scottish Universities Unionist Association
- Scottish Volunteer Medical Officers' Association
- Scottish Youth Theatre Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Scottish Youth Theatre
- Soviet Elites Project
- West of Scotland Academy of the Fine Arts Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- West of Scotland Veterinary Medical Association
- XIII Club, Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Persons (324)
- Jopling , Louise, (1843-1933), painter
- MacInnes, John, (1930-2019), Scottish Gaelic scholar
- Ainslie, Grant Duff Douglas, (1865-1948), Poet and Philosopher
- Aitken, Charles, (1869-1936), Director of National Gallery Millbank
- Alexander, Samuel, (1859-1938), philosopher
- Allen, John, (1771-1843), historian and political writer
- Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence, (1836-1912), Knight, Painter
- Alston, Charles, (1683-1760), physician and botanist
- Alston, Roland Wright, (1895-1958), artist and art lecturer
- Anderson, Sir Kenneth Skelton, (1866-1942), Knight, shipowner
- Annand, Louise, (1915-2012), artist, educator and filmmaker
- Anstis, John, (1669-1744), herald, antiquary and MP
- Arthur, Archibald, (1744-1797), philosopher
- Asquith, Herbert Henry, (1852-1928), 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, statesman
- Atkinson, Robert, (1883-1952), architect
- Baillie, Bruce Eoin, (1926-2012), playwright
- Baillie, Joanna, (1762-1851), playwright and poet
- Baillie, Robert, (1599-1662), Presbyterian minister Principal of Glasgow University
- Baker, Charles Henry Collins, (1880-1959), art historian
- Bayer, Gottlieb Theophilus Siegfried, (1694-1738), Prussian Antiquary
- Bayes, Walter John, (1869-1956), painter and art critic
- Beattie, Johnny, (1926-2020), Scottish actor
- Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maximilian, (1872-1956), Knight, author and cartoonist
- Benson, Robert Hugh, (1871-1914), Roman Catholic writer and apologist
- Berry, Robert, (1825-1903), Professor of Law, Glasgow University
- Binyon, Robert Laurence, (1869-1943), poet art historian and critic
- Blackwell, Sir Basil Henry, (1889-1984), Knight, publisher
- Blackwell, Thomas Geoffrey, (1884-1943), Art Collector
- Blair, William, (c 1633-1710), Regent of Glasgow University
- Blanche, Jacques Emile, (1862-1942), Painter Essayist and Art Critic
- Blomfield, Sir Reginald Theodore, (1856-1942), Knight, architect
- Bodkin, Thomas Patrick, (1887-1961), Director of National Gallery of Ireland and Barber Institute
- Bonar, James, (1852-1941), political economist
- Bone, Gavin, (d 1942), Tutor in St John's College, Oxford
- Bone, James, (1872-1962), London editor Manchester Guardian
- Bone, Sir Muirhead, (1876-1953), Knight, etcher and painter
- Bottomley, James Thomson, (1845-1926), electrical engineer
- Bower, Frederick Orpen, (1855-1948), botanist
- Boyd, Alexander Stuart, (1854-1930), illustrator
- Boyd, John, (fl 1672-1699), Regent of Glasgow University
- Boyd, Susan, (1949-2004), scriptwriter
- Boyd, Zachary, (1585-1653), Church of Scotland Minister, Vice-Chancellor Glasgow University
- Bradley, Henry, (1845-1923), philologist and lexicographer
- Brock, Constance Helen, (d 2000), author
- Brogan, Sir Denis William, (1900-1974), Knight, historian and political scientist
- Brown, Frederick, (1851-1941), Professor of Fine Art
- Browne, John, (1642-1700), surgeon
- Buchan, Peter, (1790-1854), collector of Scottish ballads
- Buchanan, Robert, (1785-1873), Logician and Author
- Bulwer-Lytton, Victor Alexander George Robert, (1876-1947), 2nd Earl of Lytton
- Burn, Andrew Robert, (1902-1991), Ancient Historian
- Caird, Edward, (1835-1908), Master of Balliol College, Oxford
- Cairney, John, (b 1930), actor
- Cameron, Sir David Young, (1865-1945), Knight, painter and etcher
- Cameron, Elizabeth Jane, (1910-1976), novelist
- Camp, Samuel James, (1876-1936), Keeper of the Wallace Collection
- Campbell, John, (1635-1716), 1st Earl of Breadalbane
- Campbell, Thomas, (1777-1844), poet
- Carpenter, Edward, (1844-1929), Socialist poet and campaigner
- Carrick, John Donald, (1787-1837), author
- Carter, Albert Charles Robinson, (1864-1957), art collector and critic
- Cathcart, Edward Provan, (1877-1954), physiologist
- Chalmers, George, (1742-1825), antiquary and public servant
- Chalmers, Thomas, (1780-1847), Church of Scotland minister and social reformer
- Charteris, Sir Evan Edward, (1864-1940), Knight Biographer and Barrister
- Clark, Elizabeth Thomson, (1918-1978), author
- Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie, (1903-1983), Baron Clark, art historian
- Clark, Wilfrid, (1766-1825), clergyman
- Clause, William Lionel, (1887-1946), oil painter
- Clausen, Sir George, (1852-1944), Knight, painter
- Clerk-Maxwell, James, (1831-1879), physicist
- Clutton-Brock, Arthur, (1868-1924), author and critic
- Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, (1867-1962), Knight, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, bibliographer
- Cokayne, George Edward, (1825-1911), herald and genealogist
- Colvin, Sir Sidney, (1845-1927), Knight, art and literary critic
- Conder, Charles, (1868-1909), painter
- Constable, William George, (1887-1976), art historian
- Coulton, George Gordon, (1858-1947), historian
- Crane, Walter, (1845-1915), artist
- Crawford, John, (1816-1873), poet
- Croker, John Wilson, (1780-1857), politician and essayist
- Cullen, William, (1710-1790), physician
- Dalrymple-Hay, Harley Hugh, (1861-1940), Civil Engineer
- Daniel, Sir Augustus Moore, (1866-1950), Knight Director of the National Gallery
- Darwin, Sir George Howard, (1845-1912), Knight, mathematician and astronomer
- Davidson, Samuel, (1806-1898), Theologian and Biblical Scholar
- Davidson, William , (1861-1945), produce broker and commission merchant, co-founder of R. & W. Davidson Ltd
- Dicey, Albert Venn, (1835-1922), jurist
- Dixon, William Macneile, (1866-1946), author and English scholar
- Doane, William Croswell, (1832-1913), Bishop of Albany
- Dobbs, Arthur, (1689-1765), Governor of North Carolina Irish MP
- Dodd, Francis, (1874-1949), painter
- Dodgson, Campbell, (1867-1948), Art Historian and Critic
- Dollan, Sir Patrick Joseph, (d 1963), Knight Politician
- D'Orsey, Alexander James Donald, (1812-1894), Scottish Episcopal clergyman and Portuguese scholar
- Douglas, James, (1675-1742), physician
- Drysdale, George John Learmont, (1866-1909), composer
- Dunlop, William, (? 1649-1700), Principal of the University of Glasgow
- Durham, James, (1622-1658), Professor of Divinity, Glasgow University
- Durkan, John, (1914-2006), historian
- Duveen, Sir Joseph, (1869-1939), 1st Baron Duveen
- Elton, Oliver, (1861-1945), scholar and critic
- Farmer, Henry George, (1882-1965), musician and orientalist
- Ferguson, John, (1837-1916), chemist and bibliographer
- Finberg, Alexander Joseph, (1866-1939), art historian
- Ford, Robert, (1846-1905), writer and folksong collector
- Fordyce, George, (1736-1802), physician
- Frame, Peter, (b 1942), music journalist
- Frith, Simon Webster, (b 1946), author, critic and journalist
- Fry, Roger Eliot, (1866-1934), art critic and artist
- Galt, Alexander, (1854-1938), Keeper, Technological Department, Royal Scottish Museum
- Garibaldi, Giuseppe Maria, (1807-1882), Italian patriot, general, revolutionary, and republican
- Gillespie, Patrick, (1617-1675), Principal of Glasgow University
- Gordine, Dora, (1906-1991), Sculptor
- Gough, John Ballantine, (1817-1886), temperance campaigner
- Graham, James, (1682-1742), 1st Duke of Montrose
- Gray, Alasdair James, (1934-2019), author and artist
- Gray, Andrew, (1847-1925), Professor of Natural Philosophy
- Gray, Ronald, (1868-1951), artist
- Gregory, Lady Isabella Augusta, (1852-1932), playwright and poet Roxborough, County Limerick
- Haden, Sir Francis Seymour, (1818-1910), Knight Etcher and Surgeon
- Hamilton, Thomas, (d 1782), Anatomist
- Hamilton, William, (1758-1807), anatomist
- Hamilton, Sir William, (1788-1856), Baronet, philosopher
- Hannay, Robert Kerr, (1867-1940), historian
- Hardie, Martin, (1875-1952), painter and etcher
- Harrison, Jane Ellen, (1850-1928), Classical Scholar and Archaeologist
- Havergal, Giles, (b 1938), theatre director
- Havergal, Henry, (d 1989), educationist, Principal of Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
- Hind, Arthur Magyer, (1880-1957), Slade Professor of Fine Art Oxford University
- Hobsbaum, Philip Dennis, (1932-2005), poet and English scholar
- Holles, Gervase, (1606-1675), Antiquary Royalist Colonel and Master of Requests
- Holmes, Sir Charles John, (1868-1936), Knight Director of the National Gallery
- Holst, Gustav Theodore, (1874-1934), composer Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
- Hone, Joseph Maunsell, (1882-1959), writer
- Howard, George James, (1843-1911), 9th Earl of Carlisle, artist
- Howard, Henry, (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton
- Howells, Adrian, (1962-2014), theatrical performer
- Howie, John, (1735-1793), author of "Scots Worthies"
- Hume, David, (1757-1838), jurist and judge
- Hunt, Isobel Violet, (1866-1942), novelist and founder of Women Writer's Suffrage League
- Hunter, William, (1718-1783), Anatomist
- Hurdis, James, (1763-1801), Poet
- Hutcheson, Francis, (1649-1746), Philosopher
- Hutton, Alasdair Henry, (b 1940), MEP for South Scotland
- Hyde, Henry, (1638-1709), 2nd Earl of Clarendon
- Ingen-Housz, Jan, (1730-1799), Physician and Botanist
- Jack, Robert, (1774-1814), Church of Scotland minister
- Jack, William, (1834-1924), professor of mathematics
- Jameson, Robert, (1774-1854), mineralogist
- Jardine, George, (1742-1827), Professor at Glasgow
- Jeffrey, Francis, (1773-1850), Lord Jeffrey Scottish judge and critic
- Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming, (1833-1885), Engineer and Electrician
- Jevons, William Stanley, (1835-1882), economist
- John, Augustus Edwin, (1878-1961), painter and etcher
- Joule, James Prescott, (1818-1889), physicist
- Keen, Arthur, (1861-1938), Architect
- Kennedy, John, (1855-1910), Free Church of Scotland minister
- Kennedy, William, (1799-1871), poet
- Kennington, Eric Henri, (1888-1960), artist
- Ker, William Paton, (1855-1923), literary scholar India;China
- King, Jessie Marion, (1875-1949), artist
- Knowlton, Thomas, (1692-1782), Botanist
- Laing, Alexander, (1787-1857), poet
- Laing, Ronald David, (1927-1989), Psychiatrist
- Lane, Sir Hugh Percy, (1875-1915), Knight Art Collector and Critic
- Laver, James, (1899-1975), Art Critic
- Leechman, William, (1706-1785), Principal of Glasgow University
- Legge, James Granville, (1861-1940), 2nd Chief Inspector of Reformatory and Industrial Schools
- Leighton, Robert, (1611-1684), Archbishop of Glasgow
- Lindsay, David Alexander Edward, (1871-1940), 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres, politician
- Lindsay, David Robert Alexander, (1900-1975), 28th Earl of Crawford
- Lochhead, Elizabeth Anne, (b1947), poet, playwright and performer Craigneuk, Lanarkshire
- Lochore, Robert, (1762-1852), Poet
- Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph, (1851-1940), Knight, physicist
- Logan, Jimmy, (1928-2001), actor, comedian and musician
- Low, Bet, (1924-2007), artist
- Lowinsky, Thomas Esmond, (1892-1947), Painter and Book Illustrator
- Lushington, Edmund Henry, (1766-1839), chief commissioner of the colonial board of audit and master of the crown office
- Lushington, Edmund Law, (1811-1893), classical scholar
- MacAlister, Donald, (1854-1934), 1st baronet Chancellor of Glasgow University
- MacColl, Dugald Sutherland, (1859-1948), painter and museum administrator
- MacColl, Rene, (1905-1971), Journalist
- Maccunn, Hamish, (1868-1916), composer
- MacDonald, Eric , (1931-2023), playwright, author, director and actor, Glasgow,
- MacDonald, Margaret, (fl 1970-2018), art historian
- Macfarlan, Duncan, (1771-1857), Principal of Glasgow University
- Macfie, Alec Lawrence, (1898-1980), economist
- Macgeorge, Andrew, (1810-1891), Lawyer Antiquary
- MacGillivray, James Pittendrigh, (1856-1938), sculptor
- Mackail, Margaret, (1866-1953), wife of John William Mackail
- MacKemmie, David Glen, (1877-1949), founder of the Scottish Community Drama Association
- Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Compton, (1883-1972), Knight, writer
- Mackenzie, William James Millar, (1909-1996), political scientist
- Maclagan, Sir Eric Robert Dalrymple, (1879-1951), Knight, Knight Art Historian
- MacLaurin, Colin, (1698-1746), mathematician
- Maclean, Magnus, (1857-1937), electrical engineer
- MacLehose, James, (1857-1943), Publisher and Scottish Historian
- MacLeod, Norman, (1904-1988), teacher and poet
- MacNicol, Donald, (1735-1802), Presbyterian Minister and Author
- Marsh, Sir Edward Howard, (1872-1953), Knight, public servant and patron of the arts
- Martin, Sir Alec, (1884-1971), Knight and Managing Director of Christies
- Mavor, Osborne Henry, (1888-1951), playwright
- Mazzini, Giuseppe, (1805-1872), Italian Patriot
- McAdam, John, (1806-1883), reformer and campaigner for Italian unity
- Mcbeth, Alexander, (1899-1985), Member of the Plymouth Brethren
- McBey, James, (1883-1959), painter and etcher
- McCormick, William Symington, (1859-1930), Knight, literary scholar
- McDiarmid, Ewen, (fl1762-1770), Reverend
- McDonald, Elaine, (1943-2018), OBE, founder Member of Scottish Ballet
- Mcmillan, Samuel, (d 1864), Relief Church minister
- McNeill, Eliza Isabella , (1788-1856), subject of Whistler's ‘Portrait of Mrs Eliza Winstanley'
- Mearns, James, (1855-1922), Hymnologist
- Meiklejohn, Sir Roderick Sinclair, (1876-1962), Knight Civil Servant
- Menpes, Mortimer, (? 1855-1938), Painter and Engraver
- Merry, Robert, (1755-1798), Dilettante
- Millar, John, (1735-1801), jurist
- Miller, Patrick, (1731-1815), banker and inventor
- Miller, William, (1810-1872), poet
- Moffatt, James, (1870-1944), Biblical Scholar
- Moore, George Augustus, (1852-1933), Author
- Morgan, Charles Langbridge, (1894-1958), novelist, critic and playwright
- Morgan, Edwin George, (1920-2010), writer and poet
- Motherwell, William, (1797-1835), poet
- Muirhead, George, (1715-1773), Professor of Humanity
- Muirhead, James Patrick, (1813-1898), biographer of James Watt
- Muirhead, Robert Franklin, (1860-1941), mathematician
- Munro, Neil, (1864-1930), author and journalist
- Murchison, Thomas Moffat, (1907-1984), Church of Scotland minister and Gaelic scholar
- Murdoch, John, (1819-1904), Educationist and Religious Philanthropist in India and Ceylo
- Murray, David, (1842-1928), lawyer, archaeologist and antiquary
- Nachez, Tivadar, (1859-1930), Violinist
- Neil, Gabriel, (d 1862), archaeologist
- Neilson, George, (1858-1923), historian and antiquary
- Newton, Eric, (1893-1965), Art Critic
- Nichols, John Bowyer Buchanan, (1859-1939), Trustee of the Wallace Collection
- Nichols, Robert Malise Bowyer, (1893-1944), poet Shanklin, Isle of Wight
- Nicholson, Thomas Joseph, (1645-1718), Vicar Apostolic of Scotland
- Nove, Alexander, (1915-1994), economist
- Oldys, William, (1696-1761), Herald and Antiquary
- Paterson, James, (1854-1932), artist
- Paterson, William Romaine, (1871-1942), novelist as Benjamin Swift
- Pickvance, Ronald, (1930-2017), Professor of Fine Art
- Pitcairne, Archibald, (1652-1713), physician and poet
- Pollok, Robert, (1798-1827), Poet
- Powlett Orde , Sir John, (1803-1878), of Kilmory, Argyll
- Price, John, (? 1625-1691), Royalist
- Rait, Sir Robert Sangster, (1874-1936), Knight Historian and Principal of Glasgow University
- Raleigh, Sir Walter Alexander, (1861-1922), Knight, critic and essayist
- Renison, William, (1866-1965), painter and etcher
- Renwick, James, (1662-1688), Scottish Covenanter
- Richardson, William, (1743-1814), Professor of Humanity, Glasgow University and author
- Ricketts, Charles de Sousy, (1866-1931), painter, stage designer and writer
- Riddell, Henry Scott, (1798-1870), poet
- Roberton, Sir Hugh Stevenson, (1874-1952), Knight Founder of Glasgow Orpheus Choir
- Robertson, James, (1840-1920), Professor of Hebrew
- Rodger, Alexander, (1784-1846), poet
- Rose, Samuel, (1767-1804), Friend of Cowper
- Ross, Robert Baldwin, (1869-1918), journalist and editor
- Rota, Una, (d 2003), art dealer
- Rothenstein, Sir John Knewstub Maurice, (1901-1992), Knight, Director of Tate Gallery
- Round, John Horace, (1854-1928), historian
- Rucker, Sir Arthur William, (1848-1915), Knight physicist
- Schlesinger, Rudolf, (1901-1969), Marxist theoretician
- Schreiner, Olive Emilie Albertina, (1855-1920), South African author
- Scotland, James, (1917-1983), actor, director and playwright
- Scott, Alexander Maccallum, (1874-1928), MP, barrister and traveller
- Scott, Hew, (1791-1872), minister and historian
- Scott, John Waugh, (1878-1974), philosopher
- Scott, William Robert, (1868-1940), economist
- Sharpey, William, (1802-1880), physiologist
- Shirras, George Findlay, (1885-1955), economist
- Sinclair, Louis, (1909-1990), Academic
- Smith, Adam, (1723-1790), philosopher and political economist
- Smith, James Cromarty, (1863-1944), Church of Scotland minister
- Smith, John, (1784-1849), bookseller
- Smith, John Stafford, (1750-1836), composer and musical antiquary
- Smith, Robert Archibald, (1780-1829), composer
- Smith, Ronald Gregor, (1913-1968), Professor of Divinity, Glasgow University
- Smith, William, (1832-1921), Church of Scotland minister
- Steen, John Charlton, (1898-1967), Church of Scotland minister
- Stephen, William, (1759-1838), Aberdeen Shipbuilder
- Stirling, John, (d 1727), Principal of Glasgow University
- Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William, (1818-1878), 9th Baronet MP, historian and art collector
- Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, (1819-1903), 1st Baronet, mathematician and physicist
- Strickland, Agnes, (1796-1874), historian
- Stuart, Alexander, (1673-1742), physician
- Sutcliffe, Richard Berkeley , (1918-1979), watercolour artist and theatrical designer
- Sutton, Denys Miller, (1917-1991), art critic and editor of Apollo
- Swift, Benjamin, (1871-1942), Author and Playwright
- Tait, Peter Guthrie, (1831-1901), mathematician and physicist
- Tannahill, Robert, (1774-1810), weaver, poet and song writer
- Taylor, Ernest Archibald, (1874-1951), Artist
- Terry, Charles Sanford, (1864-1936), historian and musician
- Thomson, Allen, (1809-1884), biologist
- Thomson, James, (1822-1892), engineer
- Thomson, Peter Donald, (1872-1955), Minister of Kelvinside, historian
- Thomson, William, (d1817), Minister of Ochiltree
- Thomson, William, (1824-1907), Baron Kelvin, physicist
- Tischendorf, Lobegott Friedrich Constantin von, (1815-1874), German orientalist and biblical critic
- Tonks, Henry, (1862-1937), painter
- Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, (1656-1708), botanist
- Ure, Masterton, (1776-1863), MP for Weymouth
- Valentine, George Donald, (1877-1946), Scottish judge
- Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood, (1828-1883), electrical engineer
- Venn, John, (1834-1923), Logician and Historian
- Vere, Aubrey Thomas de, (1814-1902), poet and author
- Walker, John, (1731-1803), naturalist
- Walker, Josias, (1761-1831), Professor of Humanity Glasgow University
- Walton, Edward Arthur, (1860-1922), artist
- Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore, (1832-1914), critic novelist and poet
- West, George, (fl 1925-1945), pantomime performer
- Whistler, Henry Ratcliffe, (1828-1880), brother of Rose Fuller Whistler
- Whistler, James Abbot McNeill, (1834-1903), painter
- White, Christopher, (1651-1696), chemist
- White, John, (1867-1951), Minister of the Barony Glasgow
- Wilkie, Sir David, (1785-1841), Knight, painter
- Wilson, Alexander, (1714-1786), astronomer
- Wilson, Thomas Brendan, (1927-2001), composer
- Witt, Sir Robert Clermont, (1872-1952), Knight Art Collector
- Wodrow, Robert, (1679-1734), ecclesiastical historian
- Wright, Harold James Lean, (1885-1961), art historian
- Wright, Tom, (1923-2002), writer
- Yeats, John Butler, (1839-1922), artist
Diaries (3)
- Bellinger, Alan Wayland, (B1932), University Teacher Bangor, Caernarfonshire;Glasgow, Lanarkshire;Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire;Kilmarnock, Ayrshire;Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Diggle, Elizabeth
- Unnamed, (fl 1513-1575), Scottish writer Scotland
Families (2)
- Bone family, artists
- Campbell family, Earls of Breadalbane Armaddy Castle, Argyllshire;Barrs, Argyllshire;Black Mount, Argyllshire;Easdale, Argyllshire;Glenorchy, Argyllshire;Kilchurn Castle, Argyllshire;Langton, Berwickshire;Thurso, Caithness-shire;Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire;Frisky Hall, Dunbartonshire;Preston, Kirkcudbrightshire;Holyrood House, Midlothian;Carwhin, Perthshire;Finlarig Castle, Perthshire;Glenlyon, Perthshire;Kenmore, Perthshire;Lawers, Perthshire;Taymouth Castle, Perthshire;Tyndrum, Perthshire;London;Bath, Somerset;Eccleshall, Staffordshire;Pershall, Staffordshire;Sugnall, Staffordshire;Forshaw, Warwickshire
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (7)
- NRA 41097 John Ferguson, chemist and bibliographer: MS collections link to online catalogue
- NRA 20977 Glasgow University Library: special collections
- NRA 23020 Robert Maclehose & Co Ltd, university press and general printers, Glasgow link to online catalogue
- NRA 10994 David William Hunter Marshall, historian: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 10791 George Neilson, lawyer and historian: notebooks and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 30890 Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow link to online catalogue
- NRA 10032 William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs: papers link to online catalogue
Accessions
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