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WILLIAM TYTLER (1711-1792)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 552 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:TYTLER (1711-1792)  , of Woodhouselee, Scottish historian and antiquarian, son of See also:Alexander See also:Tytler of See also:Edinburgh, was See also:born in that See also:city on the 12th of See also: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, See also:Historical and See also:Critical, defending the See also:character of See also:Mary, See also:Queen of Scots, and in 1783 the Poetical Remains of See also:James the First, See also:King of See also:Scotland . He died at Woodhouselee on the 12th of See also:September 1792 . His See also:life, written by See also:Henry See also:Mackenzie, was published in 1796 . His son ALEXANDER See also:FRASER TYTLER, See also:Lord Woodhouselee (1747-1813), Scottish See also:judge, was born at Edinburgh on the 15th of October 1747 . He was called to the Edinburgh See also:bar in 1770 . His first See also:work, a supplement to Lord See also:Kames's See also:Dictionary of Decisions, entitled The Decisions of the See also:Court of Session, was published in 1778, and a continuation appeared in 1796 . In 178o he was appointed conjoint See also:professor of universal See also:history in the university of Edinburgh, becoming See also:sole professor in 1786 . In 1783 he published Outlines of his course of lectures, extended and republished in 1801 under the See also:title of Elements of See also:General History . In 1790 he was appointed judge-See also:advocate of Scotland, and while holding this See also:office he wrote a See also:Treatise on the See also:Law of Courts-See also:Martial . In 18o1 he was raised to the See also:bench, taking his seat (1802) in the court of session as Lord Woodhouselee .

He died at Edinburgh on the 5th of See also:

January 1813 . Besides the See also:works already mentioned, he wrote Life and Writings of Dr See also:John See also:Gregory (1788); See also:Essay on the Principles of See also:Translation (1790); a dissertation on Final Causes, prefixed to his edition of See also:Derham's Physico-See also:Theology (1799); a See also:political pamphlet entitled See also:Ireland profiting by Example (1799) ; an Essay on Laura and See also:Petrarch (18o1); and See also:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Henry See also:Home of Kames (1807) .

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