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Besides contributions to the Journal he wrote several books, including a History of Peeblesshire , and an autobiography of himself and his brother. C. was a man of great business capacity, and, though of less literary distinction than his brother, did much for the dissemination of cheap and useful literature. He was Lord Provost of Edin. 1865-69, and was an LL.D. of the Univ. of that city.
About this time he visited Paris and London, where he met Hazlitt, Campbell, Coleridge, and others. Thereafter he returned to Dumfriesshire. In the following year he m. Jane Baillie Welsh, and settled in Edin. In 1828 C. applied unsuccessfully for the Chair of Moral Philosophy in St. Andrews, and the same year he went to Craigenputtock, a small property in Dumfriesshire belonging to Mrs.
Scholar, s. of a naval officer, ed. at Edin., Glasgow, and Oxf., took orders, and was Vicar of Milford, Hants, until 1863, when he was appointed Prof. of Greek at St. Andrews. He brought out ed. of Sophocles and other works on the Greek classics, and in conjunction with E. Abbott The Life and Letters of Prof. He also ed. the poems of Thomas Campbell, to whom he was related.
He sat for many years in Parliament. He also wrote The Legend of Genevieve , Domestic Verses , and sketches of the poetry of the earlier half of the 19th century. His poetry was generally grave and tender, but occasionally humorous. Philosopher and philologist, b. at the family seat in Kincardineshire, was ed. at the Univ. of Aberdeen, Edin., and Groningen, and called to the Scottish Bar in 1737.
Sir Walter always took a warm interest in the school. His speech as Chairman at the opening ceremony, on the 1st October 1824, is quoted in the Life, vol. vii. p. 268. Burnt at Edinburgh in 1670. See Arnot's Crim. Trials. 4to, Edin. 1785. Afterwards Sir John Rennie, knighted on the completion of the Bridge. See ante, p. 307, and post, p. 359. Dr. Marshman died in 1837.
Hogg," replied the lady, "I shall only take half a tumbler." Mrs. Johnstone died in Edinburgh in 1857. Slightly varied from the lines in Ruth, Poems, vol. ii. p. 112, Edinburgh, 1836. Mr. Russell died on January 30, 1862. He died in 1864. See Report by the Directors to the Proprietors of the Edinburgh Academy on the Pronunciation of Latin, Edin. 1827.
He was the author of several valuable works regarded as authorities, viz., A History of Persia , Memoir of Central India , Political History of India from 1784 to 1823 , and Life of Lord Clive . Poet and miscellaneous writer, ed. at Crieff parish school and the Univ. of Edin., where he became acquainted with James Thomson, and in 1723 went to London as tutor in the family of the Duke of Montrose.
Richardson's Report, p. 157; also L'Institut, 1837, p. 253. Cuvier says the kinkajou is found in the larger Antilles, but this is doubtful. M. Gervais states that the Didelphis crancrivora is found there. It is certain that the West Indies possess some mammifers peculiar to themselves. A tooth of a mastadon has been brought from Bahama; Edin. New Phil. Journ., 1826, p. 395.
Andrews and at Edin., where he took his degree in 1776, but did not practise, devoting himself instead to the cause of prison reform. In 1818 he pub. his Family Shakespeare in 10 vols., "in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."
A treatise on the diseases of sheep brought him £300, on the strength of which he embarked upon a sheep-farming enterprise in Dumfriesshire which, like a previous smaller venture in Harris, proved a failure, and he returned to Ettrick bankrupt. Thenceforward he relied almost entirely on literature for support. With this view he, in 1810, settled in Edin., pub.
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