The life of Thomas Hamilton, First Earl of Haddington (1563-1637)
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Davidson, Thomas
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2018-09-13T16:04:10Z
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2018-09-13T16:04:10Z
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1929
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The activities of Thomas Hamilton, first Earl of Haddington,
during his fifty years of prominent public service, are so numerous
and many -sided, that some definition of the scope and content of this
essay is necessary.
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ere we to note and comment upon each and every incident with
which his name is connected, we should be writing rather the history
of the Privy Council, of the Court of Session, indeed, in many respects;
of Scotland itself, over a period of about fifty years, rather than
that of one man. One glance, for example, at the index pages of any
of the relevant volumes of the Privy Council Register will reveal to
the research student that his difficulties will not be those of
inadequacy of material, but rather of discrimination and selection.
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The guiding principle in this essay has been to select from the
mass of his activities as judge, lawyer, lawyer, and statesman, and chiefly those
which are national in their incidence and importance, and to omit or
pass lightly over those innumerable details which constituted the
routine -work of one who was indefatigable in his devotion to duty.
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http://hdl.handle.net/1842/32542
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The University of Edinburgh
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Annexe Thesis Digitisation Project 2018 Block 20
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The life of Thomas Hamilton, First Earl of Haddington (1563-1637)
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The life of Thomas Hamilton, First Earl of Haddington (1563-1637): Hume Brown Essay Prize, 1929
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Thesis or Dissertation
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Doctoral
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Prize Essay
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