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Martyrs Kirk Reading Room
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KY16 9AH
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Businesses (27)
- Alexander Gillespie, mariner, Elie Elie, Fife
- Balmarkin Farm Colinsburgh, Fife
- British Thomson-Houston Co Ltd, manufacturers of electrical machinery and equipment London
- Cleish sawmill Cleish, Kinross-shire
- David Gillies, net manufacturer and shipper Lower Largo, Fife
- Freuchie Equitable Co-operative Society Ltd Freuchie, Fife
- Freuchie Mill Farm Freuchie, Fife
- Gateside Mills Co Ltd, bobbin manufacturers Gateside, Fife
- Gillespie & Scott, architects St Andrews, Fife
- Gillies family, shipmasters Lower Largo, Fife
- Guard Bridge Paper Co Ltd, paper manufacturers Guardbridge, Fife
- John McGregor Ltd, furnishers, valuers and auctioneers St Andrews, Fife
- John White & Son, ironfounders and weighing machine mfrs Auchtermuchty, Fife
- Leadhills lead mines Leadhills, Lanarkshire
- Markinch Co-operative Society Ltd Markinch, Fife
- Pagan, Osborne & Grace, solicitors, St Andrews St Andrews, Fife
- Pratt's Laundry Guardbridge, Fife
- Scanneg Business Systems Ltd, microfilm equipment manufacturers Nuneaton, Warwickshire
- Scotflow Ltd, road transport contractors Guardbridge, Fife
- Scottish International, journal
- Simpson Philp, solicitor Cupar, Fife
- Smith & McLaurin Ltd, paper manufacturers Johnstone, Renfrewshire
- Thomas Swan, joiner and undertaker St Andrews, Fife
- Tullis Russell & Co Ltd, paper manufacturers, Markinch Markinch, Fife
- Valentines of Dundee Ltd, greeting card manufacturers Dundee, Angus
- William Hay, joiner St Andrews, Fife
- William Yule, grocer Strathkinness, Fife
Organisations (80)
- Aberdeen Shipbuilders Association Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
- Anstruther Easter Royal Burgh Anstruther, Fife
- Anstruther Wester Royal Burgh Anstruther, Fife
- Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland: Lodge St Andrew No 25, St Andrews St Andrews, Fife
- Auchtermuchty Associate Congregation Auchtermuchty, Fife
- Auchtermuchty East United Presbyterian Church Auchtermuchty, Fife
- Auchtermuchty Kirk Session Auchtermuchty, Fife
- Auchtermuchty Royal Burgh Auchtermuchty, Fife
- Crail Parish Church Crail, Fife
- Crail Royal Burgh Crail, Fife
- Crail United Free Church Crail, Fife
- Cupar Presbytery Cupar, Fife
- Cupar Royal Burgh Cupar, Fife
- Drumeldrie School Drumeldrie, Fife
- Dundee Shipbuilders Association Dundee, Angus
- Earlsferry Royal Burgh Earlsferry, Fife
- Elie and Earlsferry Burgh Elie, Fife;Earlsferry, Fife
- Elie, Liberty and Williamsburgh Burgh Elie, Fife;Liberty, Fife;Williamsburgh, Fife
- Engineering and Allied Employers East of Scotland Association: shipbuilding section
- Falkland Royal Burgh Falkland, Fife
- Fife County Council Fife;Fife
- Fife Volunteers Fife;Fife
- Fife, Clackmannan and Kinross Association, London London
- Fifeshire Volunteer Regiment Fife;Fife
- Friends of St Andrews Botanic Garden St Andrews, Fife
- Guardbridge Memorial Institute Guardbridge, Fife
- HMS Mars (1848) Woodhaven, Fife;Dundee, Angus
- Holy Trinity Parish Church, St Andrews St Andrews, Fife
- Kilrenny barony Kilrenny, Fife
- Kilrenny Royal Burgh Kilrenny, Fife
- Kirkcaldy Burghs Conservative Association Kirkcaldy, Fife
- Kirkcaldy Unionist Club Kirkcaldy, Fife
- Ladybank Burgh Ladybank, Fife
- Leuchars School Board Leuchars, Fife
- Lower Largo Feuars Lower Largo, Fife
- May Priory Fife;Fife
- Midlothian Liberal Association Midlothian;Lothian
- Newburgh Royal Burgh Newburgh, Fife
- Newport Burgh Newport, Fife
- Newport Congregational Church Newport, Fife
- Pittenweem Priory Pittenweem, Fife
- Pittenweem Relief Church Pittenweem, Fife
- Pittenweem Royal Burgh Pittenweem, Fife
- Scottish East Coast Shipbuilders Association St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews 1920 Club St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews Archery Club St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews Boys Club St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews Congregational Church St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews Festival Society St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews Music Club St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews Nursing and Child Welfare Association St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews Poetry Festival St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews Prehistorians St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews Presbytery St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews Royal Burgh St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews Sea Box Society St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews University Archery Club St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews University Association Football Club St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews University Athletic Union St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews University Badminton Club St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews University Boxing Club St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews University Cricket Club St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews University Cross Country Club St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews University Golf Club St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews University Hockey Club (Men) St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews University Hockey Club (Women) St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews University Mountaineering Club St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews University Rugby Football Club St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews University Womens Cricket Club St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews University Womens Golf Club St Andrews, Fife
- St Andrews Youth Development Committee St Andrews, Fife
- St Leonards Parish Church, St Andrews St Andrews, Fife
- St Monance Burgh St Monance, Fife
- Synthetic Society
- Tayport Burgh Tayport, Fife
- Tayport Free Church Tayport, Fife
- Torch Club, St Andrews St Andrews, Fife
- United Burghs of Kilrenny, Anstruther Easter and Anstruther Wester Anstruther, Fife;Kilrenny, Fife
- West Fife Conservative Association Fife;Fife
- Westminster Dining Club Westminster, Middlesex
Persons (279)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, (1834-1902), 1st Baron Acton, historian
- Adam, Charles Fox Frederick, (1852-1913), diplomat
- Adam, Frederick Edward Fox, (1887-1969), diplomat
- Adamson, Alastair Martin, (1901-1945), entomologist Scotland
- Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe, (1807-1873), naturalist
- Ainger, Alfred, (1837-1904), Author Master of the Temple
- Airy, Sir George Biddell, (1801-1892), Knight, astronomer and mathematician
- Aitken, Alexander Craig, (1895-1967), mathematician
- Aitken, John, (1726-1816), Minister of St Vigeans
- Alford, Henry, (1878-1955), Lieutenant Colonel Traveller
- Alison, William Pulteney, (1790-1859), physician
- Allen, Edgar Johnson, (1866-1942), marine biologist
- Allen, John Frank, (1908-2001), low temperature physicist
- Alton, Ernest Henry, (1873-1952), Provost of Trinity College Dublin
- Anderson, Adam, (1780-1846), natural philosopher and engineer
- Anderson, Sir John, (1852-1918), Knight, colonial civil servant
- Andrade, Edward Neville Da Costa, (1887-1971), physicist
- Andrew, William Shaw, (1884-1963), Dean of St Andrews Episcopal Church in Scotland
- Arnott, Struther, (b 1934), Principal of St Andrews University
- Austin, Alfred, (1835-1913), Poet Laureate and journalist
- Babbage, Charles, (1792-1871), mathematician
- Bailey, John Cann, (1864-1931), critic and essayist
- Baillie, Charles, (1804-1879), Lord Jerviswoode Lord Justiciary
- Baillie, Donald Macpherson, (1887-1954), theologian
- Baily, Francis, (1774-1844), astronomer
- Balfour, Arthur James, (1848-1930), 1st Earl of Balfour, statesman
- Balfour, John Hutton, (1808-1884), botanist
- Barry, William, (1849-1930), Roman Catholic priest and theologian
- Baxter, James Houston, (1894-1973), Church Historian
- Bennett, Andrew, (1871-1958), university administrator
- Benson, Robert Hugh, (1871-1914), Roman Catholic writer and apologist
- Black, Adam, (1784-1874), publisher
- Blair, William, (1830-1916), United Presbyterian minister historian and biographer
- Blennerhassett, Sir Rowland, (1839-1909), 4th Baronet political writer
- Bloxam, John Rouse, (1807-1891), historian
- Bodley, John Edward Courtenay, (1853-1925), civil servant and historian
- Bourne, Francis Alphonsus, (1861-1935), Cardinal
- Bowley, Sir Arthur Lyon, (1869-1957), Knight, economist and statistician
- Bowman, Walter, (d 1782), antiquary
- Bremond, Henri, (1855-1933), French literary critic and historian
- Brewster, Sir David, (1781-1868), Knight, natural philosopher
- Broun, John Allan, (1817-1879), magnetician and meteorologist
- Brown, Hamish Macmillan, (b 1934), mountaineer and author
- Bryce, James, (1838-1922), Viscount Bryce of Dechmount, statesman
- Buchan-Hepburn, Patrick George Thomas, (1901-1974), 1st Baron Hailes, politician
- Buckland, William, (1784-1856), Dean of Westminster, geologist
- Bullough, Donald Auberon, (1928-2002), mediaeval historian
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert, (1831-1891), 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India
- Burns, James Henderson, (1921-2012), historian of political thought
- Bushnell, George Herbert, (1896-1973), librarian, biographer and historian
- Butcher, Samuel Henry, (1850-1910), classical scholar educationist MP
- Butler, George, (1819-1890), Canon of Winchester
- Butler, Josephine Elizabeth, (1828-1906), feminist and social reformer
- Campbell, George Douglas, (1823-1900), 8th Duke of Argyll, statesman
- Candlish, Robert Smith, (1806-1873), Free Church of Scotland minister and theologian
- Cant, Ronald Gordon, (1908-1999), historian
- Carmichael, Dugald, (1772-1827), Captain Botanist
- Cathcart, Charles Murray, (1783-1859), 2nd Earl Cathcart, General
- Chalmers, Thomas, (1780-1847), Church of Scotland minister and social reformer
- Charles II, (1630-1685), King of Great Britain and Ireland
- Cheape, Douglas, (1797-1861), writer and jurist
- Chevallier, Temple, (1794-1873), astronomer
- Cheyne, Thomas Kelly, (1841-1915), Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Scripture
- Christie, Samuel Hunter, (1783-1865), mathematician
- Christison, Sir Robert, (1797-1882), 1st Baronet, toxicologist
- Chrystal, George, (1851-1911), mathematician
- Church, Richard William, (1815-1890), Dean of St Paul's historian
- Clark, Sir James, (1788-1870), 1st Baronet physician
- Clerk-Maxwell, James, (1831-1879), physicist
- Collins, John, (1625-1683), mathematician
- Compton, Spencer Joshua Alwyne, (1790-1851), 2nd Marquess of Northampton
- Cook, John, (1739-1815), Professor of Moral Philosophy
- Cook, John, (1808-1869), ecclesiastical historian
- Cowper-Temple, William Francis, (1811-1888), Baron Mount Temple, politician
- Crawford, Robert, (b 1959), Professor of Modern Scottish Literature
- Cruickshank, Helen Burness, (1886-1975), poet
- Dalberg-Acton, Richard Maximilian, (1870-1924), 2nd Baron Acton, diplomat
- Danchev, Alexander, (1955-2016), historian and biographer
- Davie, Cedric Thorpe, (1913-1983), composer
- Davin, Daniel Marcus, (b 1913), Author and Publisher
- Davy, John, (1790-1868), physiologist and anatomist
- Day, George Edward, (1815-1872), physician
- Dennis, Nigel R, (1949-2013), Hispanic scholar
- Donaldson, Sir James, (1831-1915), Knight Educationist Classical and Patristic Scholar
- Drew, Mary, (1847-1927), author, private secretary of WE Gladstone
- Drummond, James Lawson, (1783-1853), anatomist
- Duff, Alexander, (1806-1878), missionary
- Duncan, George Simpson, (1884-1965), New Testament scholar
- Dundas, Henry, (1742-1811), 1st Viscount Melville, statesman
- Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham, (b 1942), poet and critic
- Elie de Beaumont, Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Leonce, (1798-1874), geologist
- Ellis, Robert Leslie, (1817-1859), scientist
- Elwin, Whitwell, (1816-1900), Anglican clergyman, editor of 'Quarterly Review'
- Empson, William, (1791-1852), lawyer and literary reviewer
- Faraday, Michael, (1791-1867), natural philosopher
- Ferrier, James Frederick, (1808-1864), metaphysician
- Finlay-Freundlich, Erwin, (1885-1964), Astronomer
- Finzi, Gerald, (1901-1956), composer
- Fitch, Sir Joshua Girling, (1824-1903), Knight educationalist
- Fitzalan-Howard, Henry, (1847-1917), 15th Duke of Norfolk, politician
- Flavin, Dan, (1933-1996), artist
- Fleming, David Hay, (1849-1931), historian, antiquary and critic
- Forbes, George, (1849-1936), engineer and astronomer
- Forbes, George Hay, (1821-1875), Episcopalian minister at Burntisland publisher antiquary
- Forbes, James David, (1809-1868), natural philosopher
- Forrester, William Roxburgh, (1892-1984), theologian
- Froude, Robert Edmund, (1846-1924), naval architect
- Gascoyne-Cecil, Hugh Richard Heathcote, (1869-1956), Baron Quickswood, politician
- Gasquet, Francis Neil Aidan, (1846-1929), Cardinal
- Gatty, Margaret, (1809-1873), writer and naturalist
- Geddes, Sir Patrick, (1854-1932), Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner
- Gibson, Edmund, (1669-1748), Bishop of London, antiquary
- Gillespie, James, (1722-1791), Scottish theologian
- Grant-Duff, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone, (1829-1906), Knight statesman and author
- Gregory, David, (1661-1708), astronomer
- Gregory, James, (1638-1675), Mathematician
- Grey, John, (1785-1868), agriculturist
- Guthrie, Sir William Tyrone, (1900-1971), Knight, theatrical director
- Hall, Basil, (1788-1844), Captain RN, author
- Hansteen, Christopher, (1784-1873), Norwegian astronomer
- Harcourt, William Venables Vernon, (1789-1871), Canon of York chemist
- Harris, Charles Amyand, (1813-1874), Bishop of Gibraltar
- Harris, Sir William Snow, (1791-1867), Knight, electrician
- Henderson, Thomas, (1798-1844), astronomer
- Heron-Allen, Edward, (1861-1943), zoologist
- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet, astronomer
- Hibbert-Ware, Samuel, (1782-1848), antiquary and geologist
- Hill, George, (1750-1819), Principal of St Mary's College St Andrews
- Holland, Henry Scott, (1847-1918), theologian
- Honeyman, Alexander Mackie, (1907-1988), professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages
- Hont, Istvan, (1947-2013), historian
- Hope, Sir James, (1614-1661), Knight, lawyer
- Hopkins, William, (1793-1866), mathematician and geologist
- Horner, Leonard, (1785-1864), geologist
- Horridge, George Adrian, (b 1927), marine zoologist
- Housman, Alfred Edward, (1859-1936), poet and classical scholar
- Howie, Charles, (1811-1899), Botanist
- Hugel, Friedrich von, (1852-1925), Baron von Hugel, theologian
- Hutton, Richard Holt, (1826-1897), theologian journalist and man of letters
- Inglis, Esther, (1571-1624), calligrapher and miniaturist
- Irvine, Sir James Colquhoun, (1877-1952), Knight, chemist
- James, Sir Henry, (1803-1877), Knight Director General of the Ordnance Survey
- Jameson, Robert, (1774-1854), mineralogist
- Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse, (1841-1905), Knight, classical scholar historian MP educationist
- Johnston, Alexander Keith, (1804-1871), geographer
- Jowett, Benjamin, (1817-1893), biblical and classical scholar Master of Balliol College Camberwell, Surrey;Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Kay, David Miller, (1866-1930), professor of Hebrew at St Andrews University
- Kelland, Philip, (1808-1879), mathematician
- Kemp, Robert, (1908-1967), playwright
- Kirkpatrick, Sarah Brownlee Jean, (1919-2007), librarian and bibliographer
- Knox, Sir Thomas Malcolm, (1900-1980), Knight Principal of St Andrews University
- La Rive, Auguste Arthur, (1801-1873), Swiss physicist
- Lamont, John, (fl 1671), Chronicler
- Lang, Andrew, (1844-1912), anthropologist, classicist and historian
- Lee, John, (1779-1859), Church of Scotland minister and university principal
- Leslie, Sir John, (1766-1832), Knight, mathematician and natural philosopher
- Lilley, Alfred Leslie, (1860-1948), Canon of Hereford
- Lindsay, Wallace Martin, (1858-1937), Professor of Humanity, St Andrews University
- Lloyd, Humphrey, (1800-1881), scientist
- Lockhart, John Gibson, (1794-1854), writer and literary editor
- Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph, (1851-1940), Knight, physicist
- Longman, Thomas, (1804-1879), publisher
- Lorimer, William Laughton, (1885-1967), classical scholar
- Loudon, John, (fl 1695), Professor of Philosophy
- Lyell, Sir Charles, (1797-1875), 1st Baronet, geologist
- Macduff, Alexander, (1792-1842) Bonhard, West Lothian
- Mackay, Mackintosh, (1793-1873), Free Church of Scotland minister and Gaelic scholar
- Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart, (1780-1848), Knight, mineralogist
- Macleay, Kenneth Noel Grant, (1903-1989), Botanist
- Macleod, Norman, (1812-1872), Church of Scotland minister and journalist
- MacNeill, Duncan, (1793-1874), 1st Baron Colonsay, judge
- Makdougall-Brisbane, Sir Thomas, (1773-1860), Baronet General astronomer colonial governor
- Manning, Henry Edward, (1808-1892), Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster
- Marcaldi, Francesco, (fl 1571-1597), scribe
- Matthews, Denis James, (1919-1988), pianist and Professor of Music
- Mcintosh, William Carmichael, (1838-1931), zoologist
- Mercier, Desire Joseph, (1851-1926), Cardinal Archbishop of Malines
- Mildmay, Sir Anthony, (d 1617), Knight, diplomat
- Moyes, Joseph, (b 1828), tacksman
- Muir, Edwin, (1887-1959), poet and author
- Muir, Willa, (1890-1970), author and translator
- Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet geologist
- Murray, John, (1808-1892), publisher
- Myers, Frederic William Henry, (1843-1901), psychical researcher, schools inspector and author
- Napier, Macvey, (1776-1847), editor of Edinburgh Review
- Newman, Sidney Thomas Mayhow, (1906-1971), Professor of Music
- Nichol, John Pringle, (1804-1859), astronomer
- Nicoll, Francis, (1770-1835), Principal of St Andrews University
- Nisbet, James Wilkie, (1903-1974), economist
- O'Dwyer, Edward Thomas, (1842-1917), Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick
- Owen, Sir Richard, (1804-1892), Knight, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist
- Parker, John William, (1793-1870), publisher
- Paterson, William, (fl 1676-1677), Regent of Edinburgh University
- Peacock, Sir Alan Turner, (1922-2014), Knight, economist
- Pentland, Joseph Barclay, (1797-1873), traveller
- Petre, Maude Dominica Mary, (d 1942), author and Roman Catholic Modernist
- Phillips, John, (1800-1874), geologist
- Playfair, Lyon, (1818-1898), 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews, chemist
- Playfair, Sir Robert Lambert, (1828-1899), Knight, author and colonial administrator
- Powell, Baden, (1796-1860), Savilian and Professor of Geometry
- Powell, John Enoch, (1912-1998), politician and author
- Pringle, Francis, (fl 1699-1746), philosopher
- Purcell, Edmund Sheridan, (1824-1899), Biographer of Cardinal Manning
- Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques, (1796-1874), Belgian mathematician and astronomer
- Ramsay, Edward Bannerman, (1793-1872), Dean of Edinburgh
- Rashdall, Hastings, (1858-1924), Dean of Carlisle historian, theologian and philosopher
- Read, John, (1884-1963), chemist
- Reeve, Henry, (1813-1895), journalist and writer
- Reid, Alexander, (1914-1982), author and playwright
- Richardson, Sir John, (1787-1865), Knight, surgeon, Arctic explorer and naturalist
- Riddell, Henry Scott, (1798-1870), poet
- Robertson, Charles James Alan, (d 1993), railway enthusiast and local historian
- Robertson, James Patrick Bannerman, (1845-1909), Baron Robertson Judge MP, Lord Robertson MP
- Robertson, Joseph, (1810-1866), historian
- Robertson, Robert Alexander, (1873-1935), botanist
- Robison, John, (1739-1805), scientist
- Robison, Sir John, (1778-1843), Knight inventor
- Ruskin, John, (1819-1900), author, artist and social reformer
- Russell, Sir David, (1872-1956), Knight, paper manufacturer
- Russell, Tom, (b c1925), colonial administrator
- Rymer, James, (fl 1670-1673), Regent of St Salvators College
- Sabatier, Charles Paul Marie, (1858-1928), French Protestant church historian
- Sabine, Sir Edward, (1788-1883), Knight, General, geophysicist
- Saunders-Dundas, Robert, (1771-1851), 2nd Viscount Melville, statesman
- Scott, William Robert, (1868-1940), economist
- Shairp, John Campbell, (1819-1885), literary scholar
- Sharp, James, (1613-1679), Archbishop of St Andrews
- Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, (1781-1851), antiquary and artist
- Shewan, Alexander, (1851-1941), Indian civil servant and Homeric scholar
- Shorter, Clement King, (1857-1926), journalist and critic
- Sidgwick, Henry, (1838-1900), philosopher and educationalist
- Sim, Alastair, (1900-1976), actor
- Simpson, Brian Shepherd Tinley, (1912-1997), Canon of St Johns Oban, railway enthusiast
- Smith, John, (1798-1888), botanist
- Smith, Sydney Goodsir, (1915-1975), poet and playwright
- Smyth, Charles Piazzi, (1819-1900), astronomer
- Sommerville, Duncan M'Laren Young, (1879-1934), mathematician
- Spragge, Frank, (d 2011), naturalist
- Steer, John, (1928-2012), art historian
- Stephenson, Robert, (1803-1859), civil engineer
- Stewart, Balfour, (1828-1887), physicist and meteorologist
- Stiven, David Sime, (1896-1986), Church of Scotland minister
- Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, (1819-1903), 1st Baronet, mathematician and physicist
- Swan, William, (1818-1894), Professor of Natural Philosophy St Andrews University
- Swinton, Archibald Campbell, (1812-1890), author and politician
- Symonds, John Addington, (1807-1871), physician
- Tait, Peter Guthrie, (1831-1901), mathematician and physicist
- Talbot, Edward Stuart, (1844-1934), Bishop of Winchester
- Talbot, William Henry Fox, (1800-1877), MP pioneer of photography
- Tennyson, Hallam, (1852-1928), 2nd Baron Tennyson, Governor General of Australia
- Terrot, Charles Hughes, (1790-1872), Bishop of Edinburgh
- Thompson, Sir D'Arcy Wentworth, (1860-1948), Knight, zoologist and classical scholar
- Thomson, Arthur, (1907-1987), philosopher
- Thomson, William, (1824-1907), Baron Kelvin, physicist
- Traill, Thomas Stewart, (1781-1862), physician and specialist in medical jurisprudence
- Tregelles, Samuel Prideaux, (1813-1875), biblical scholar
- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto, (1838-1928), 2nd Baronet Statesman and Historian
- Tulloch, John, (1823-1886), Principal of St Andrews University
- Tyndall, John, (1820-1893), natural philosopher
- Tyrrell, George, (1861-1909), theologian
- Underhill, Evelyn, (1875-1941), Religious Writer
- Vaughan, Herbert Alfred, (1832-1903), Cardinal
- Vere, Aubrey Thomas de, (1814-1902), poet and author
- Ward, James, (1843-1925), Philosopher and Psychologist
- Ward, Wilfrid Philip, (1856-1916), biographer and Roman Catholic apologist
- Ward, William George, (1812-1882), theologian and philosopher
- Webb, Martha Beatrice, (1858-1943), social reformer
- Wedderburn, Sir John, (1599-1679), Knight, Regent of St Leonards College, physician
- Welsh, John, (1824-1859), meteorologist
- Whewell, William, (1794-1866), Master of Trinity College Cambridge
- Whittaker, William Gillies, (1876-1944), composer
- Wightman, Edith Mary, (1938-1983), Classical Archaeologist
- Wilkie, James, (fl 1930), antiquary
- Wilkinson, Paul, (1937-2011), political scientist
- Wilson, John Hardie, (1858-1920), Botanist
- Wishart, John, (fl 1663-1680), Regent of Edinburgh University
- Wood, Charles Lindley, (1839-1934), 2nd Viscount Halifax
- Wyndham, George, (1863-1913), statesman and man of letters
- Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, (1913-1973), poet and playwright
Diaries (2)
- Darling, James, (fl 1912-1933) London;Chelsea, Middlesex
- Smart, Mary Elliot, (fl 1900-1950), resident of St Andrews St Andrews, Fife
Families (17)
- Anstruther family, baronets, of Balcaskie Balcaskie, Fife
- Balfour family of Fernie Castle Fernie Castle, Fife
- Bethune family of Balfour Balfour, Fife
- Bethune family of Blebo Blebo, Fife
- Cheape family of Strathtyrum and Lathockar Strathtyrum, Fife;Lathockar, Fife
- Dudingston family of St Ford St Ford, Fife
- Erskine family, baronets, of Cambo Kingsbarns, Fife
- Gilmour family, baronets, of Lundin and Montrave Lundin, Fife;Montrave, Fife
- Hay family of Leys Leys, Perthshire
- Hope family, Marquesses of Linlithgow Castle Campbell, Clackmannanshire;Wamphray, Dumfriesshire;Luffness, East Lothian;Ormiston, East Lothian;Craighall, Fife;Rankeillour, Fife;Rosyth, Fife;Hildestoun, Lanarkshire;Leadhills, Lanarkshire;Costertoun, Midlothian;Airthrey, Stirlingshire;Bathgate, West Lothian;Hopetoun, West Lothian;Humbie, West Lothian;Kirkliston, West Lothian;Priestinch, West Lothian;Lubenham, Leicestershire;Papillon Hall, Leicestershire;Kensington, Middlesex
- Lawson family of Annfield Annfield, Fife;Burnturk, Fife;Kettle, Fife
- Sandys-Lumsdaine family of Lumsdaine and Blanerne, and of Innergellie Lumsdaine, Berwickshire;Blanerne, Berwickshire;Innergellie, Fife
- Stewart family of St Fort St Fort, Fife
- Stirling family of Cadder and Muiravonside Cadder, Lanarkshire;Muiravonside, Stirlingshire
- Turnbull family of Cassindonald Cassindonald, Fife
- Ward family of Northwood Park Northwood Park, Isle of Wight;Cowes, Isle of Wight;Freshwater, Isle of Wight;Weston Manor, Isle of Wight
- Younger family of Mount Melville Mount Melville, Fife
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (28)
- NRA 7870 Anstruther family, baronets, of Balcaskie: estate and family papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 14146 Balfour family of Fernie Castle: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 7869 Bethune family of Balfour: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 456 Josephine Butler correspondence
- NRA 32979 Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer: corresp and papers incl scores link to online catalogue
- NRA 29158 Dudingston family of St Ford: estate papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 14799 Henry and Robert Dundas, 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 41541 Erskine family, baronets, of Cambo: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 13132 James David Forbes, scientist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 36562 Gillespie & Scott, architects, St Andrews link to online catalogue
- NRA 19891 Guard Bridge Paper Co Ltd, paper manufacturers link to online catalogue
- NRA 14607 Hay family of Leys: deeds and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 10987 Sir James Hope: diaries and letterbooks link to online catalogue
- NRA 20869 Mr and Mrs TA Jardine: Fife net manufacture and shipping records link to online catalogue
- NRA 17563 Kirkcaldy Burghs Conservative Association link to online catalogue
- NRA 17564 Kirkcaldy Unionist Club link to online catalogue
- NRA 16115 Alfred Leslie Lilley, Canon of Hereford: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 30645 Macrae, Flett & Rennie, solicitors, Edinburgh: clients papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 11012 Priory Acres writs, St Andrews link to online catalogue
- NRA 20222 Sir David Russell, paper mfr: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 20366 Scottish East Coast Shipbuilders' Association link to online catalogue
- NRA 28419 St Andrews University Library: misc accessions
- NRA 22830 Stewart family of St Fort: estate papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 32980 Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, zoologist and classicist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 41538 Valentines of Dundee Ltd, greeting card mfrs link to online catalogue
- NRA 26993 Wilfrid Philip Ward, biographer and Roman Catholic apologist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 17562 West Fife Conservative Association link to online catalogue
- NRA 15223 John White Automation Ltd, weighing machine mfrs, Auchtermuchty link to online catalogue
Accessions
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