WILLIAM

See also:

• WILLIAM TYTLER (1711-1792)

TYTLER (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) .