1924/01/01 by E. T. Whittaker · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies #Legal Systems and Judicial Processes #Legal Education and Practice Innovations
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openalex publication_date 1924/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
THE Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh mourn the loss of one who for many years had been, as General Secretary, the centre of their corporate activity, and who was to most of them an honoured and beloved personal friend.Cargill Gilston Knott was born at Penicuik in 1856, of a family which, though originally English, had been settled in Scotland for some generations.Maternally he was descended from the brother of Donald Cargill the martyr.His father, Pelham Knott, known as the author of a volume of poetry, died young, and the boy was brought up by an uncle and aunt who lived at Arbroath.From the High School of Arbroath young Knott came up to Edinburgh University in 1872, and almost at once fell under the influence of Tait, then in the zenith of his powers.It is probably fair to say that no one of Tait's pupils