University of Glasgow

After going to school in several different towns as his father was allotted to various parishes, JB went on a scholarship to Glasgow University , where he specialised in classics and was taught by Gilbert Murray

CC attended the Glasgow School of Art. On her return from Frankfurt she studied English Literature at Queen Margaret's College , the women's college which for nearly a decade had been part of Glasgow University

During the same period she spent her winters in closet study. She put in a great deal of time at the University of Glasgow library, studying the history and condition of the United States.

MAH 's father, Robert Adamson , educated at Edinburgh University , became Professor of Logic and Metaphysics successively at Owens College (later merged in Manchester University), and the Universities of Aberdeen and then Glasgow ...

JB 's father, James Baillie , was a Presbyterian minister, a socially conscious man who saw to the medical as well as the spritual needs of his parish. He was later a professor of divinity...

In 1906 LMM became engaged to solid, sensible Ewan Macdonald , who had recently taken a position as minister of the Presbyterian church at Cavendish, P.E.I. They could not marry until her dependent grandmother no...

Donald Carswell, a scholarly writer, had also worked for the Glasgow Herald and as a sub-editor in London for The Times. The two had met in Glasgow many years before this, and had worked...

MC 's stepfather—and possible biological father or grandfather—Charles MacKay (born 1814), was a writer and editor. Among the periodicals he worked for were the Morning Chronicle, alongside Charles Dickens ; the Daily Telegraph...

CD met Isabella Elder , an important advocate for education and the founder of the women's medical school at Queen Margaret College in Glasgow (which became part of the University of Glasgow in 1892).

AS says this book fell all but dead from the press. But there were some good reviews in the USA, and the book was admired by Philip Hobsbaum , poet and lecturer at Glasgow .

ED was awarded an honorary LL.D. by the University of Glasgow , in the first group of women thus honoured.

This work arose out of the W. P. Ker Lecture which HW delivered at Glasgow University on 28 October 1947, after a year's delay from the date at first proposed. Monica Blackett includes the text...

Backed by the Scottish Nationalist Association , LL ran for the position of Rector of Glasgow University , for which she was in the end runner-up.

Two nineteenth-century editions of LAS 's letters—by Elizabeth Cooper , 1866, and E. T. Bradley , 1889—preceded the modern scholarly one by Sara Jayne Steen (1994). The complete correspondence of Bess of Hardwick is now...

The text was published to rave reviews in the Sunday Times, the Observer, and other papers. For her piece in The Spectator, Vita Sackville-West wrote an open letter to the author rather...