Alexander fraser tytler biography of williams

TYTLER, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813: ODNB)

He was baptised Alexander Tytler and added Fraser only after his marriage. Born at Edinburgh, he was one of eight children of Anne (Craig) and William Tytler q.v., a lawyer and historian. (In 1783 William edited Poetical Remains of James the First, included in the database because it contains work not previously published.) He was educated at Edinburgh High School, James Elphinstone’s school in Kensington, and Edinburgh University where he read law and came to know Henry Home, Lord Kames, and other prominent Edinburgh men. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates and called to the Scottish bar in 1770. A year later, his first publication, an edition of Phineas Fletcher’s Piscatory Eclogues, was issued. He followed this with various law publications and contributions to The Mirror. In 1776 he married Anne Fraser, heir to the estates of Balnain and Aldourie. They had five children

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Tytler, Alexander Fraser

​TYTLER, ALEXANDER FRASER, Lord Woodhouselee (1747–1813), eldest son of William Tytler [q. v.] of Woodhouselee, by Ann, daughter of James Craig of Costerton, was born at Edinburgh, 15 Oct. 1747. After attending the high school of Edinburgh, where he became dux of the rector's class, he was sent in 1763 to an academy at Kensington, where he remained two years. Thence in 1765 he entered the university of ​Edinburgh, and on 23 Jan. 1770 he was called to the Scottish dryckesställe. Soon afterwards he began to indicate a literary bent, in which, however, he did not display talent of a more than respectable order. In 1771 he published at Edinburgh ‘Piscatory Eclogues, with other Poetical Miscellanies of Phinehas Fletcher, illustrated with notes, critical and explanatory.’ In 1778 he published a supplementary volume to Lord Kames's ‘Dictionary of Decisions,’ entitled ‘The Decisions of the Court of möte, from

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Letter of Alexander Fraser Tytler to his publisher, William Davies, of Cadell and Davies.

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Concerns Tytler`s biography of Lord Kames.

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