Collection name. Minto papers
Record Group
Identifier: Collection name
Minto, Earls of
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.11001-13496
Scope and Contents
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
17th century-20th century.
Correspondence and papers of the Elliot Murray Kynynmounds, Earls of Minto, of related families, and of Sir John Coxe Hippisley, whose career was associated with that of the 1st Earl of Minto.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21206-21236
Dates:
1759-1914.
Printed pamphlet by Sir Gilbert Elliot 2nd Baronet, Lord Minto, entitled ‘Proposals for carrying on certain Public Works in the City of Edinburgh’, [1752], with manuscript alterations and additions possibly in the hand of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet.
Item
Identifier: MS.19979
Scope and Contents
The proposals concern the need for certain public buildings, including those which eventually became Register House, the Signet Library, the Court of Session, and the North Bridge.
Dates:
[1752, or after.]
Small collection of letters, papers, photographs and press cuttings from the Minto Papers.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19574-19577
Dates:
1784-[1887], undated.