... Scotland The primary purpose of this research note is to use a city directory to identify and contextualize early practitioners in what later became the first organized community of public accountants in the English-speaking world. It also comments more generally on the strengths and limitations...

... to an ongoing debate about Scotland's association with slavery. Francis Humberston Mackenzie (1754–1815), Lord Seaforth (hereafter, Seaforth), was a significant landowner in Scotland, member of the British parliament (1784–1790 and 1794–1796), and governor of Barbados (1801–1806) ( McKichan 2011 ; 2018...