Abstract
In the narrative of the early history of photography crucial, interrelated roles were played by St Andrews figures and enacted within St Andrews itself, its environs and its university. The eminent physicist Sir David Brewster, principal of the United Colleges of St Salvator and St Leonard, through personal friendship and correspondence with William Henry Fox Talbot, with whom he shared a keen enthusiasm for the new medium, occupied a catalytic position in the promotion and establishment of negative-positive paper photography in St Andrews and further afield in the 1840s. It was he who actively encouraged the brothers John and Robert Adamson, the former becoming the patron of Thomas Rodger, St Andrews' first professional photographer.1
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