Abstract of the accounts of intromissions of the treasurer
- Reference:GB 1716 RSA1/9/1
- Dates of Creation:1826 - 2000
Administrative / Biographical History
Account of intromissions” - An account prepared by a trustee recording his transactions with the funds or estate in his charge (http://www.govanlc.com/debtdictionary.htm). Some of the earlier of these provide some specific expenditure for the purchase of Academy Property, as well as the names of the major prize winners. In 2019 the presence of the original handwritten Abstracts were found to be held by Edinburgh University archives, covering the period 1832-1908, and contained in portfolios of similar binding to other ledgers within the Academy. These include Donald Lindsay, Accountant’s Report on the Royal Institute’s finances 1821-29 which appears in printed from as an appendix to the RI’s Answers to the RSA (re the dispute of 1845-47 when the Board of Manufactures agreed to give room in the RI for the Torrie Collection at the expense of the RSA’s annual exhibs), a copy of which is tipped into RSA Council Mins 1847-03-27. The copy at Edin Uni has a cross reference to this added in pencil and identified by RSA Collections staff as being the handwriting of James Hastings Clerk to the RSA 1882-1911 and suggesting that that document was still in the possession of the RSA by 1882 and possibly by as late as 1911. John Kinross RSA (1855-1931) who served as treasurer from 1924 until his death, in his Research notes (Box File 48) states; “The first existing Abstract is dated 1832 and was prepared by Mr John Watson Gordon who superseded Mr Thomas Hamilton the first treasurer in 1829 when he was elected to that post ‘by the majority then engrafted on the original body’ - The Abstracts from that date onwards have been carefully preserved