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The Society of Writers to His Majesty's Signet is a private society of Scottish solicitors, dating back to 1594 and part of the College of Justice.Writers to the Signet originally had special privileges in relation to the drawing up of documents required to be signeted, but these have since disappeared and the society is now an independent, non-regulatory association of solicitors.
It remains a heavily used legal resource. As well as collecting legal works, it was also a deposit library, and in 1925 the non-legal books in their collection were given to the new National Library of Scotland, which is located next to the library, on George IV Bridge. [27] To the west of the north end of Parliament Hall is the Signet Library.
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Bourtreehill Library; Dalry Library (Dalry, Scotland) Dreghorn Library; Fairlie Library; Irvine Library; Kilbirnie Library; Kilwinning Library; Largs Library; Millport Library; Saltcoats Library; Skelmorlie Library; Springside Library; West Kilbride Library [21]
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Shortly after the death of his father in 1837, Laing was elected to be Librarian of the Signet Library replacing Macvey Napier, a post he retained until his death. Apart from general bibliographical knowledge, Laing was best known as a student of the literary and artistic history of Scotland. [4]
Dr David Laing (1792–1878), librarian to the Signet Library and noted archaeologist, lived at 12 James Street; Mackintosh MacKay (1793–1873), compiler of a Gaelic dictionary and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, died in Portobello; Rear Admiral Thomas Fraser (1796–1870), hero of the First Anglo-Burmese War