- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- A Note about the Text
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Glasgow University to 1701
- 3 Principal Stirling's Regime: Family and Politics, 1701–1725
- 4 Glasgow under the Campbells, 1725–1742
- 5 Squadrone Glasgow and the Return of the Duke of Argyll, 1742–1761
- 6 The Age of Bute and the Moderates
- 7 Glasgow University in the Age of Dundas
- 8 Edinburgh University to 1704
- 9 Edinburgh Appointments in the Faculty of Divinity
- 10 Chairs of Interest to Lawyers
- 11 Surgical and Medical Chairs
- 12 The Arts Chairs
- 13 The Arts Chairs, 1690–c. 1715
- 14 St Mary's College and Other Appointments, 1713–1747
- 15 The Untold Story
- 16 Thomas Tullideph's St Andrews, 1747–1777
- 17 The Dundas Era at St Andrews, 1780–1806
- 18 Summaries and Results
- I. Manuscripts Sources
- II. Unpublished Dissertations, Books and Articles
- III.Other Sources
- Appendices
- Appendix 2
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
Summaries and Results
Summaries and Results
- Chapter:
- (p.523) 18 Summaries and Results
- Source:
- Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment
- Author(s):
Roger L. Emerson
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
This chapter discusses the politics, processes, and constraints of appointments. It observes that the patronage system worked as well as it did, and had the results it produced, partly because of the men who gave out jobs and acted as brokers. Generally, the patrons and managers were not bigots but men of some culture and even learning. It further observes that they recognized the need to improve Scotland and felt less compunction about changing things. They were men who were, in a way, outsiders — Mar, Montrose, Ilay, Bute, the Earl of Kinnoull, and even Henry Dundas spent much of their lives outside Scotland. It offers an example of the political life that was still possible in provincial regions which were largely independent in their internal affairs of the large countries into which they were integrated. It notes that this was Scotland's situation after the Union with England in 1707.
Keywords: appointments, patronage system, Scotland, Mar, Montrose, Ilay, Bute, Earl of Kinnoull, Henry Dundas, Union
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- A Note about the Text
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Glasgow University to 1701
- 3 Principal Stirling's Regime: Family and Politics, 1701–1725
- 4 Glasgow under the Campbells, 1725–1742
- 5 Squadrone Glasgow and the Return of the Duke of Argyll, 1742–1761
- 6 The Age of Bute and the Moderates
- 7 Glasgow University in the Age of Dundas
- 8 Edinburgh University to 1704
- 9 Edinburgh Appointments in the Faculty of Divinity
- 10 Chairs of Interest to Lawyers
- 11 Surgical and Medical Chairs
- 12 The Arts Chairs
- 13 The Arts Chairs, 1690–c. 1715
- 14 St Mary's College and Other Appointments, 1713–1747
- 15 The Untold Story
- 16 Thomas Tullideph's St Andrews, 1747–1777
- 17 The Dundas Era at St Andrews, 1780–1806
- 18 Summaries and Results
- I. Manuscripts Sources
- II. Unpublished Dissertations, Books and Articles
- III.Other Sources
- Appendices
- Appendix 2
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
