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ALEXANDER CARLYLE (1722-1805)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 349 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER See also:CARLYLE (1722-1805)  , Scottish divine, was See also:born on the 26th of See also:January 1722, in See also:Dumfriesshire, and passed his youth and See also:early manhood at See also:Prestonpans, where he witnessed the See also:battle of 1745 . He was educated at See also:Edinburgh (M.A . 1743), See also:Glasgow and See also:Leiden . From 1748 until his See also:death on the 28th of See also:August 18o5 he was See also:minister at Inveresk in Midlothian, and during this See also:long career See also:rose to high See also:eminence in his See also:church not only as See also:leader of the moderate or " broad " Church See also:section, but as See also:moderator of the See also:General See also:Assembly 1770 and See also:dean of the See also:Chapel Royal in 1789 . His See also:influence was enhanced by his See also:personal See also:appearance, which was so striking as to See also:earn him the name of " See also:Jupiter See also:Carlyle "; and his auto-See also:biography (published 186o), though written in his closing years and not extending beyond the See also:year 1770, is abundantly interesting as a picture of Scottish See also:life, social and ecclesiastical, in the 18th See also:century . Carlyle's memory recalled the See also:Porteous Riots of 1736, and less remotely his friendship with See also:Adam See also:Smith, See also:David See also:Hume, and See also:John See also:Home, the dramatist, for witnessing the performance of whose tragedy See also:Douglas he was censured in 1757 . He was distinctly a bon vivant, but withal an upright, conscientious and capable minister .

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