ROBERT

See also:

• ANDERSON
• ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
• ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
• ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
• ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
• ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
• ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
• ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
• ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
• ROBERT ANDERSON (1750–1830)
• ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)

ANDERSON (1750–1830)  , Scottish author and critic, was born at Carnwath, Lanarkshire, on the 7th of January 1750 . He studied first divinity and then medicine at the university of Edinburgh, and subsequently, after some experience as a surgeon, took the degree of M.D. at St Andrews in 1778 . He began to practise as a physician at Alnwick, but he became financially independent by his marriage with the daughter of Mr John Gray, and abandoned his profession for a literary life in Edinburgh . For several years his attention was occupied with his edition of The Works of the British Poets, with Prefaces Biographical and Critical (14 vols . 8vo, Edin., 1792–1807) . His other publications were, The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D., with Memoirs of his Life and Writings (Edin., 1796); Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., with Critical Observations on his Works (Edin., 1815); The Works of John Moore, M.D., with Memoirs of his Life and Writings (Edin., 7 vols., 1820); and The Grave and other Poems, by Robert Blair; to which are pre-fixed some Account of his Life and Observations on his Writings(Edin., 1826) . Dr Anderson died at Edinburgh on the loth of February 183o .