Richard A. Marsden - Cosmo Innes and the Defence of Scotlands Past c. 1825-1875

RICHARD A. MARSDEN
Cardiff University, UK

First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing

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Marsden, Richard A., 1978-

Cosmo Innes and the defence of Scotlands past c. 18251875 / by Richard A. Marsden.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-5593-6 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-3155-7439-4 (ebook)

ISBN 978-1-3171-5915-5 (epub) 1. HistoriansScotlandBiography. 2. LawyersScotland

Biography. 3. AntiquariansScotlandBiography. 4. ScotlandHistory19th century

Biography. I. Innes, Cosmo, 1798-1874. II. Title.

DA816.I56M37 2014

941.1081092dc23

[B]

2013045831

ISBN 9781409455936 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315574394 (ebk-PDF)
ISBN 9781317159155 (ebk-ePUB)

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This book was written in two stages. It began life as a Glasgow University doctoral thesis researched and written between 2005 and 2010. It was then transformed into a monograph during 2012 and 2013. There are consequently a fair number of people who helped to shape it or supported me along the way. Firstly I would like to thank my PhD supervisors, Professors Colin Kidd and Dauvit Broun, for their expert advice and excellent suggestions, as well as their understanding of the challenges inherent to a part-time, distance-supervised PhD undertaken by a partially-sighted student. Thanks also to Dr Bill Aird, now at the University of Edinburgh, for keeping me on track during my undergraduate and Masters degrees at Cardiff University.

I would also like to thank the University of Glasgows Department of History, the Open Universitys Faculty of Arts and the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland for grants which made a number of research and conference trips possible. Similarly, thanks are due to the Vale of Glamorgan Local Education Authority for supporting my studies through the Disabled Student Allowance. Thanks also to Cardiff University, the Open University and Cardiff Metropolitan University for giving me the opportunity to apply my research through teaching. In addition, I am grateful to the trustees of the National Library of Scotland for permission to reproduce some of Cosmo Inness photographs, and to the University of Glasgow for allowing me to include a number of illustrations from Inness source editions. Publication of the 30 illustrations was made possible by a Scouloudi Publication Award from the Institute of Historical Research. In the course of researching this thesis I have used both published and unpublished material from Glasgow University Library, Edinburgh University Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland, the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, Aberdeen University Library, Elgin Museum Archives, Dundee City Archives, the British Library, the Bodleian Library, Cardiff University Library, Swansea University Library and Bristol University Library. All of the staff at these libraries and archives have been extremely helpful. Thanks as well to Emily Yates and Pam Bertram at Ashgate for their help in getting the manuscript ready for publication.

On a personal note, thank you to Professor Stefan Berger, Dr Gideon Brough, Dr Chris Dennis, Dr Jessica Davies, Dr Oliver Davies, Professor Stephen Driscoll, Dr Ben Earl, Professor Richard Finlay, Mr Adrian Gill, Dr Daniela Hofmann, Dr Jan Huyton, Dr Nick Jones, Dr Rob Jones, Dr Andrew Richardson, Professor Keir Waddington, Dr Helen Waterhouse, Professor Martin Willis, Mrs Sharon Wiseman, Dr Alun Withey and Dr Dave Wyatt for providing support and encouragement at various stages of the project. My parents Andrew and Moira Marsden also deserve my gratitude for encouraging my interest in history from a young age.

Finally, an immeasurably huge thank you to my wonderful and longsuffering wife Joy for putting up with me and my research for so very long. She has been with me since this study was conceived back in 2005 and has provided unstinting and uncomplaining support in every conceivable way throughout, especially since the birth of our beautiful daughter Medi in October 2012. It is to Joy and Medi that this book is dedicated.