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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelFile
Ref NoKINGS/9/1/2/8
Alt Ref NoMSK 228/8
TitlePapers relating to contested elections
Date1762 - 1843
Extent1 file
Description1. Extract minutes of (1) Rectorial visitations, 1762 - 1763 (2) Faculty of Senatus, 1st January, 9th January, 20 February, 15 April 1793, regarding election of the medicine. (3) Copy decreet to Lord Chancellor, May 1763.
2. Copy: admission (in Latin) of Roderick McLeod as Principal, 1800.
3. Memorial from council to Duke of Gordon, Chancellor, regarding two contested elections in June - October 1800 for: (i) office of Subprincipal (Jack vs. Scott) (ii) Vacant regency (Duncan vs. McHay vs. Copland)
4. Documents re contest for Professorship of Moral Philosophy (Dewar vs. Forbes), in 1815 - 1817.
5. Copy: legal opinion for Presbytery of Aberdeen in case of Sir David Brewster, St Andrews. 13 November 1843.
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