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Pre-dating the university by three years, Edinburgh University Library was founded in 1580 through the donation of a large collection by Clement Litill, and today is the largest academic library collection in Scotland. [205] [206] The Brutalist style eight-storey Main Library building in George Square was designed by Sir Basil Spence.
First British university to be founded via a charter of incorporation, with King's College and University College as founding colleges. See below. Queen's University of Ireland: 1850 to 1882 Founded as the university of the three "Queen's Colleges" of Belfast, Cork, and Galway, all established 1845.
1582: The University of Edinburgh is founded and given a royal charter – it is Scotland's fourth university 1583: Edinburgh, previously a single parish, divided into four parishes, each with its own minister; There are an estimated 500 merchants and 500 craftsmen in the town, of which 250 are tailors
St Leonard's College was founded in St Andrews in 1512 and St John's College as St Mary's College, St Andrews was re-founded in 1538, as a humanist academy for the training of clerics. Public lectures that were established in Edinburgh in the 1540s would eventually become the University of Edinburgh in 1582.
St Leonard's College was founded in Aberdeen in 1511 and St John's College was re-founded in 1538 as St Mary's College, St Andrews. [5] Public lectures that were established in Edinburgh in the 1540s would eventually become the University of Edinburgh in 1582. [6] A university briefly existed in Fraserburgh between 1592 and 1605. [7]
In 1579, Edinburgh's town council revived plans to establish a university, for which it had already sought–but not received–the approval of Mary. [51] King James VI eventually agreed to found a college by royal charter , while earlier universities had been founded through papal bulls , further underlining Scotland's break with Catholicism ...
Chairs of medicine were founded at all the university towns. By the 1740s Edinburgh medical school was the major centre of medicine in Europe and was a leading centre in the Atlantic world. [14] Access to Scottish universities was probably more open than in contemporary England, Germany or France.
The first 'new university' of the era was the University of Strathclyde which received its royal charter in 1964, although it traces its origins back to the Andersonian Institute (also known at various times as Anderson's College and Anderson's University) founded in 1796. [58] [59] [60] [61]