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Thomas Ross
551 327
Description Thomas Ross
Collection Thomas Ross
Catalogue Number 551 327
Category All Other
Scope and Content A collection of papers including: an Almanack for 1870 with diary entries; a pocketbook c.1870 with notes and addresses; family tree and drafts and sketches for an illuminated address to his parents on their 50th Wedding Anniversary; two notebooks with draft entries on Tarbert Castle, Fedderat, Smailholm, Granton, Royston, Caroline Park, Gylen, Dunstaffnage, Girniegoe, Balgonie, Fountainhall, Midhope, Caerlaverock and Fordell, sketchbook for 1898; letters to Ross on research interests, including one of 1909 from R S Mylne; report for Marquess of Bute on an excavation at Castle Island, Mochrum; certificate of conferral of Doctorate of Laws, 1910; summons for the offence of sketching Rossend Castle, 1915; report on Old Bridge of Earn (for RCAHMS?); and a letter from Sir Robert Lorimer requesting a private consultation with Dr Ross about the design of the Scottish National War Memorial, ‘as now modelled’, prior to the meeting to discuss it by the Ancient Monuments Board, and expressing gratitude to Ross for his advice on the design of the Thistle Chapel (with a copy of Dr Ross’s typewritten refusal). Files of research notesand drafts of articles for: Cakemuir Castle; Catcune Castle; Crookston Castle; Dundas Castle; Loch-an-Eilean Castle; Evelick Castle; Fyvie Castle; Fourmerkland Castle; Inverugie Castle; Kellie Castle; Mearns Castle; Megginch Castle; Muness Castle; Noltland Castle; Pitsligo Parish Church; Ochiltree Castle; Ruthven Castle; The Argyle Lodging, Stirling; Stobhall; Torphichen; Traquair House; Yester Castle. Typescript inscribed ‘Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scoitland Additional notes by Dr Thomas Ross,’ with corrections and additions to published text 1887-92, arranged by page numbers.
Archive History Acc No 1970/19 'Notebooks and manuscripts by Dr Thomas Ross.', presented by the executors of Miss Ross, the architect's daughter, 1970.
Related Material See also Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Collection for manuscripts of Ross's Rhind Lectures on the 'Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland from the 12th to the 16th Century' (1899) and the 'History of the Architecture of Scotland from the 12th to the 17th Centuries' (1902).
Access Conditions There is no restriction upon access.
Administrative History Dr Thomas Ross (1839-1930), architect, architectural historian, archaeologist and Commissioner of RCAHMS.
Accruals No further accruals are expected.
Accession Number 1970/19
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