Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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†CONSERVATOR, n. “The person appointed to watch over the interests of Scottish merchants in the Netherlands” (Sc. 1825 Jam.2).Sc. 1718 J. Yair Sc. Trade in Netherlands (1776) 290:
Concerning the affairs of that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain, called Scotland, and of Conservator of the privileges of merchants, natives, or inhabitants of the said part of our said Kingdom, in the Low Countries.Sc. a.1734 R. Wodrow Life J. Wodrow (1828) 18:
Mr Andrew afterwards Sir Andrew Kennedy of Cloburn, and conservator of the Scots nation at Camphire.Sc. 1890 Bell Dict. Law Scot. 231:
The Court of Session had a cumulative jurisdiction with the conservator's court over Scotchmen established at the factory [at Campvere].Sc. 1909 Davidson & Gray Sc. Staple 269:
In Oliver & Boyd's Almanac, among the officers of the Convention [of Royal Burghs], the Conservator at Campvere appeared annually until 1847, when the office, then a purely nominal one connected with the British Consulate at Rotterdam, ceased to exist.
Hence conservatorship.Sc. 1708 Fountainhall Decisions (1759) II. 470:
He had lost his Conservatorship through malversations.
