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haps most importantly, to memorialize his life by founding an educational monument, emerge as key reasons for the college’s founding. That Marischal took a largely hands-off approach to the college’s operations after its foundation does not suggest a limited role; instead, it exemplified how Marischal exercised lordship. Thus Kerr-Peterson renders perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Marischal’s lordship unremarkable, neatly capping this informative and important study.