| LC control no. | n 85075715 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Sellar, David (W. David H.) |
| Variant(s) | Sellar, W. David H. Sellar, William David Hamilton |
| Located | Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Birth date | 1941-02-27 |
| Death date | 2019-01-26 |
| Place of birth | Glasgow (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Field of activity | Law History Genealogy Heraldry |
| Affiliation | University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Law Great Britain. Court of the Lord Lyon University of Glasgow |
| Profession or occupation | Law teachers Legal historians Historians Genealogists Heraldists Public officers |
| Found in | Miscellany two, 1984: t.p. (David Sellar, B.A., LL.B.) Cooper of Culross, T.M.C. The Scottish legal tradition, 1991: t.p. (W. David H. Sellar, BA, LLB, sen. lecturer in Scots law, U. of Edinburgh) p. 64, etc. (David Sellar; W.D.H. Sellar) Sellar, David. The Highland clan MacNeacail (MacNicol), 1999: t.p. (W. David H. Sellar) jkt. (David Sellar is an Honorary Research Fellow of the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Glasgow. He has published extensively on Highland history and genealogy, has written on the origins of both the Campbells and the MacDonalds and was a contributor to the Companion to Gaelic Scotland. ... he has also written on the history of Scots law and is co-author of the Saltire Society's The Scottish legal tradition. He resides in Edinburgh) Scotsman WWW site, viewed Feb. 12, 2019 (David Sellar, Lord Lyon King of Arms. Born: 27 February 1941 in Glasgow. Died: 26 January 2019 in Edinburgh, aged 78. As Lord Lyon, he held reins like no other in the world, with personal charge of heraldry, and as a judge on genealogical questions relating to family representation and pedigrees. Through his post in jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, he brought to the office the force of the law. But his lifelong study, his "passion" as he termed it, was the study of genealogy. William David Hamilton Sellar MVO MA LLB FRHistS FSAScot was hailed as the most influential Scottish legal historian of his generation; joined the law faculty at Edinburgh Univ. in 1969; remained there for his entire academic career; founded the Centre for Legal History in 1992; appointed Lord Lyon in March 2008) |
| Associated language | eng |
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