Papers of Andrew Monro Lang

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

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

Acquired 2001. Accession no: E2001.30.

Catalogue updated by Graeme D. Eddie 16 December 2015