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Collection GD9 - Macaulay Rhodesia Trust
Identity area
Reference code
GB3002 GD9
Title
Macaulay Rhodesia Trust
Date(s)
- 1952-1961 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
1 folder
Context area
Name of creator
Macaulay Rhodesia Trust, 1952-1961
(1952-1961)
Administrative history
The MacAulay (Rhodesia) Trust Fund was set up under the terms of the will of the late Murdo Macaulay, a crofter’s son from Ness in Lewis, who emigrated to Rhodesia in his youth with no money but made a considerable fortune while there. When he died, he left his fortune to be used for the good of his native island and the trust was operated by Barclays Bank and local trustees administered the fund.
The money gave local Lewismen set themselves up in business if their proposals were approved by the trustees. The Trust also gave money for students and post graduate scholarships to do with crofting/agriculture and also apprenticeships, special grants and funding for a new village hall at Ness.
These records were found in the collection of James Shaw Grant who was editor of the Stornoway Gazette. He was chairman of the Trust.
The successful Outer Isles Fisheries Training Scheme was dependent on funds from the Trust.
The money gave local Lewismen set themselves up in business if their proposals were approved by the trustees. The Trust also gave money for students and post graduate scholarships to do with crofting/agriculture and also apprenticeships, special grants and funding for a new village hall at Ness.
These records were found in the collection of James Shaw Grant who was editor of the Stornoway Gazette. He was chairman of the Trust.
The successful Outer Isles Fisheries Training Scheme was dependent on funds from the Trust.
Repository
Archival history
The collection was held within the James Shaw Grant collection which was held by the Shaw Grant family, then Gaelic publishers Acair then Stornoway Library.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Minutes 1956-1961; correspondence 1953-1961
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
No further items are expected to be added to this collection.
System of arrangement
Arranged within series. Within series, records are arranged chronologically.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
These records are closed until 2086.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Paper records
Finding aids
Digital and paper item level catalogue available in the searchroom of Tasglann nan Eilean Siar.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
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Access points
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Place access points
Name access points
- Macaulay Rhodesia Trust, 1952-1961 (Creator)
