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TYTLER, WILLIAM (1711-1792)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 552 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TUM-VAN
TYTLER, WILLIAM (1711-1792) , of Woodhouselee, Scottish historian and antiquarian, son of Alexander
Tytler
  of Edinburgh, was born in that city on the 12th of October 1711. He was educated at the High School and the University, and was in 1744 admitted into the society of Writers to the Signet. In 1759 he published an Inquiry, Historical and
Critical
 , defending the character of Mary, Queen of Scots, and in 1783 the Poetical Remains of James the First, King of
Scotland
 . He died at Woodhouselee on the 12th of September 1792. His life, written by
Henry
  Mackenzie, was published in 1796.
His son ALEXANDER FRASER
TYTLER
 , Lord Woodhouselee (1747-1813), Scottish judge, was born at Edinburgh on the 15th of October 1747. He was called to the Edinburgh bar in 1770. His first
work
 , a supplement to Lord Kames's Dictionary of Decisions, entitled The Decisions of the Court of Session, was published in 1778, and a continuation appeared in 1796. In 178o he was appointed conjoint professor of universal history in the university of Edinburgh, becoming sole professor in 1786. In 1783 he published Outlines of his course of lectures, extended and republished in 1801 under the title of Elements of General History. In 1790 he was appointed judge-advocate of
Scotland
 , and while holding this office he wrote a Treatise on the Law of Courts-Martial. In 18o1 he was raised to the bench, taking his seat (1802) in the court of session as Lord Woodhouselee. He died at Edinburgh on the 5th of January 1813.
Besides the works already mentioned, he wrote Life and Writings of Dr John Gregory (1788); Essay on the Principles of Translation (1790); a dissertation on Final Causes, prefixed to his edition of
Derham
 's Physico-Theology (1799); a political pamphlet entitled Ireland profiting by Example (1799) ; an Essay on Laura and Petrarch (18o1); and Memoirs of the Life and Writings of
Henry
  Home of Kames (1807).


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