[Ads-l] "big cheese" 1815

[Stanton McCandlish]

I had no idea this expression was so old.

"I did a reel in the [Scottish Highland] Garb at the Highland Society of
London in 1793. Some parvenus seek to share my honour as a Big Highland
Cheese".

William Farquharson of Monaltrie, quoted in: Armstrong, Fiona Kathryne (31
August 2017). "Highlandism: Its value to Scotland and how a queen and two
aristocratic women promoted the phenomenon in the Victorian age" (PhD
thesis). University of Strathclyde. doi:10.48730/2m47-md74.
https://stax.strath.ac.uk/concern/theses/j098zb08p - retrieved 28 May 2023.
p. 22

The author's own footnote for this is a bit cryptic:
Appendix E: SRO/GD1/53/112, December 8th 1815, *op cit.*

I looked back through previous pages but didn't find what the *op. cit.*
referred to.

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