- 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 Unpublished Dissertations, Books and Articles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
Squadrone Glasgow and the Return of the Duke of Argyll, 1742–1761
Squadrone Glasgow and the Return of the Duke of Argyll, 1742–1761
- Chapter:
- (p.107) 5 Squadrone Glasgow and the Return of the Duke of Argyll, 1742–1761
- Source:
- Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment
- Author(s):
Roger L. Emerson
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
This chapter discusses the return of Argyll to power as the manager of most civil patronage. It notes that he had five years to settle his personal affairs as the new Duke of Argyll and his building schemes at Inveraray had increased his hold over Glasgow and the West of Scotland because of the size of his annual expenditures. It further notes that letters concerning patronage in the universities again appear regularly in the papers of Lord Milton. It observes that the effects of those changes began to be increasingly felt in Glasgow with Cullen's appointment to the regius chair of medicine signifying the Duke's growing strength. It reports that the Duke and several of his friends through the 1740s had been much involved with chemical experiments related to farming, the making of pottery, and to finding alkalis for Scottish industries.
Keywords: civil patronage, Duke of Argyll, Inveraray, Glasgow, West of Scotland, Lord Milton, Cullen, chair of medicine, chemical experiments
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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
