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1881 Treatise On Judicial Factors Curators Bonis & Managers of Burghs : Thoms
1881 Treatise On Judicial Factors Curators Bonis & Managers of Burghs : Thoms
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Treatise On Judicial Factors, Curators Bonis, and Managers of Burghs;
Including Factors in the Sheriff Courts
With an Appendix of Relative Acts of Parliament and Sederunt, and Practical Forms
By George Hunter Thoms
Published by Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh, 1881. Second Edition, revised and in part re-written by Hugh J E Fraser. Full leather school prize binding, large 8vo, gilt to all page edges, marble endpapers, pp xxxi, [i], 685.
CONDITION
A good clean copy. The leather binding is good but there is cracking down the front hinge but the front board remains attached by the binders chords, inner hinges good with no cracking, all contents present and pages in good clean condition throughout. Overall a good second edition.
George Hunter MacThomas Thoms of Aberlemno FSA Scot FRSE (1831–1903) was a 19th-century Scottish advocate and the 16th clan chief of Clan MacThomas. A wealthy bachelor he was a generous benefactor to the Church of Scotland.
He was born at Aberlemno on 3 June 1831 the son of Grace Watt and her husband, Patrick Hunter Thoms, Provost of Dundee. He was educated at the High School of Dundee then studied law at the University of Edinburgh.
He qualified as an advocate then lived and practiced from 13 Albany Street in Edinburgh's New Town. In 1862 he was promoted to Advocate Depute allowing him to move to a large house at 52 Great King Street.
From 1870 to 1899 he served as Sheriff of Caithness, Orkney and Shetland.
In his role as clan chief he oversaw the choice of tartan for the Clan MacThomas, now known as Ancient MacThomas.
In the 1870s he was one of the major donators to the restoration of St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh.
In 1884 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Thomas Stevenson, Alexander Forbes Irvine, Peter Guthrie Tait and Alexander Buchan.
He was a member of the Royal Company of Archers and was Honorary Vice Admiral of the Pentland Firth.
He retired to 26 Cluny Drive in the Morningside district of south-west Edinburgh.
He died on 25 October 1903 unmarried and childless. His will included a then large sum of £60,000 for St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney (the equivalent of £7 million in 2000). The cathedral used this money for a major restoration including a large stained glass window (the main east window) now known as the "Thoms Window".
Thoms is buried in Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh. The grave lies on the outer south-west wall and records his benefaction to St Giles.
Including Factors in the Sheriff Courts
With an Appendix of Relative Acts of Parliament and Sederunt, and Practical Forms
By George Hunter Thoms
Published by Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh, 1881. Second Edition, revised and in part re-written by Hugh J E Fraser. Full leather school prize binding, large 8vo, gilt to all page edges, marble endpapers, pp xxxi, [i], 685.
CONDITION
A good clean copy. The leather binding is good but there is cracking down the front hinge but the front board remains attached by the binders chords, inner hinges good with no cracking, all contents present and pages in good clean condition throughout. Overall a good second edition.
George Hunter MacThomas Thoms of Aberlemno FSA Scot FRSE (1831–1903) was a 19th-century Scottish advocate and the 16th clan chief of Clan MacThomas. A wealthy bachelor he was a generous benefactor to the Church of Scotland.
He was born at Aberlemno on 3 June 1831 the son of Grace Watt and her husband, Patrick Hunter Thoms, Provost of Dundee. He was educated at the High School of Dundee then studied law at the University of Edinburgh.
He qualified as an advocate then lived and practiced from 13 Albany Street in Edinburgh's New Town. In 1862 he was promoted to Advocate Depute allowing him to move to a large house at 52 Great King Street.
From 1870 to 1899 he served as Sheriff of Caithness, Orkney and Shetland.
In his role as clan chief he oversaw the choice of tartan for the Clan MacThomas, now known as Ancient MacThomas.
In the 1870s he was one of the major donators to the restoration of St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh.
In 1884 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Thomas Stevenson, Alexander Forbes Irvine, Peter Guthrie Tait and Alexander Buchan.
He was a member of the Royal Company of Archers and was Honorary Vice Admiral of the Pentland Firth.
He retired to 26 Cluny Drive in the Morningside district of south-west Edinburgh.
He died on 25 October 1903 unmarried and childless. His will included a then large sum of £60,000 for St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney (the equivalent of £7 million in 2000). The cathedral used this money for a major restoration including a large stained glass window (the main east window) now known as the "Thoms Window".
Thoms is buried in Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh. The grave lies on the outer south-west wall and records his benefaction to St Giles.
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