Papers of Andrew Monro Lang

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-1697
• Dates of Creation:1990-1998
• Name of Creator:
  Lang, Andrew Monro (architect, researcher)
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  10 boxes

• Scope and Content

  Box 1:
  File - Correspondence, general
  File - DNB entries - Craufurd, and Dempster
  File - Agriculture
  Folder - Correspondence, Dempster permissions from various institutions

  Box 2:
  File - Banking, Fisheries, Roads
  File - Boswell and Burke
  File - Haldane, Brodie
  Bundle of loose papers - Papers in St. Andrews University Library

  Box 3:
  File - Transcripts of letters (2) - William Smith, Sam Heming, Henry Dundas, Gilbert Elliot, Laing mss, Carlyle, Thorkelin
  File - Letters of George Dempster to Sir Adam Fergusson, 1756-1813
  Bundle of loose papers - Blair Adam muniments

  Box 4:
  File - Transcripts of letters (3) - British Fishery Society, Dr. Iain Boyle, Saltoun
  File - Dempster, Chapters 0-8
  File - Dempster, Chapters 9-19
  File - George Dempster, Skibo talk

  Box 5:
  File - George Dempster, Toronto letters I, Vols.1-4
  File - George Dempster, Toronto letters III, Vols.7-19
  File - Dundee, Forfar, Skibo, and Rogers
  Bundle of loose papers

  Box 6:
  File - East India Company, Secondary sources
  File - East India Company, India Office and Jamaica
  File - Enlightenment / Universities, Clubs

  Box 7:
  File - History of Parliament, Debates
  File - Other House of Commons, Harris Debates, Namier and Brooke
  File - House of Commons Politics I (Secondary sources), Administrations
  File - House of Commons Politics II

  Box 8:
  File - Scotland and America, Emigration
  File - 'The Scots Magazine'
  File - Reading lists etc
  Bundle of loose papers

  Box 9:
  File - Miscellaneous I
  File - James Ker, John Leslie
  File - Letham Archive, Lunan and Vinney Minutes, HMC Reports
  File - Correspondence, Edwin Mellen Press, DNB

  Box 10:
  File - Politics I
  File - Politics II
  File - Politics III

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Andrew Monro Lang was a career architect at the Scottish Office. In 1979 he was awarded the degree of M.Phil. (Edinburgh University) for his work, The role of the planner in Scottish local government. Then, in 1996 he obtained his Ph.D. (also at Edinburgh University) for his research on George Dempster of Dunnichen, the 18th century politician and improver.

  Lang wrote the biography of George Dempster of Dunnichen (1732–1818) for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), and in 1998 A life of George Dempster, Scottish M.P. of Dunnichen (1732-1818) published by Lewiston, N.Y. and the Edwin Mellen Press, Lampeter.

  Andrew Monro Lang died suddenly in 2000.

• Access Information

  Access should be unrestricted but please check in advance of any consultation.

• Acquisition Information

  Acquired 2001. Accession no: E2001.30.

• Archivist's Note

  Catalogue updated by Graeme D. Eddie 16 December 2015

• Personal Names

  Dempster, George, 1732-1818 (agriculturalist)