Notebooks of James Dean Ogilvie, 1866-1949, merchant, book collector, historian and bibliographer

Notebooks of James Dean Ogilvie relating to sermons preached before the Long Parliament, 1640-1653

James Dean Ogilvie was born in 1866 and lived in Milngavie, Scotland. James was a merchant based in Glasgow, and in his spare time a book-collector, historian and bibliographer. He wrote scholarly papers for the bibliographical societies of Edinburgh and Glasgow and studied his own book collection closely, making extensive notes on the flyleaves of his pamphlets. His collection also included 231 'Long Parliament sermons' (i.e. the sermons ordered to be preached before the Commons at St Margaret's, Westminster, London, during the tenure of the Long Parliament, 1640-1653), together with typescript introductions to 148 of them written by Ogilvie. He received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Glasgow in 1945 and died in 1949.

The arrangement of this material reflects the original order in which it was received

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Gift : J W Ogilvie : 1955 : ACCN 2500

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Held by the Ogilvie family. Originally accessioned by the University library as G974-983.

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