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Born at Dumfries on 2 May 1830, he was son of Andrew Irving, a joiner.
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The design of this hand-book will be greatly misunderstood, and even some measure of injustice, unconsciously it may be, directed against the Compiler if it is looked upon in any light as intended to minister to national vanity by exhibiting the achievements of Scotsmen in the way of challenge to other divisions of the Kingdom. With old Scottish traditions still influencing national life, and with her own legal, ecclesiastical, and municipal systems yet preserved in all their bristling peculiarities, there might be much interesting information conveyed by working on such lines; but the whole tendency of modem civilizing influences being to draw together people of kindred race or interest, it has been thought better to design the book only as a contribution to the Biographical History of the United Kingdom. Such history the writer would like to see more complete and recent than anything presently existing. The Biography of Counties or Shires, of Parishes, and even of single families, might all be made full of interesting details, and at the same time fitted to be of vast use to the general as well as to the local historian. For the avoidance of another kind of error, a sentence or two more may be necessary. The Book of Scotsmen will be found essentially a Brief Dictionary reasonably accurate, it is hoped, so far as it goes, but, at the same time, suggestive rather than exhaustive. The names of most of the old historical families will be found represented by some specially prominent member, yet no pretension is made to mere genealogical or family history. This has already been well and fully done in various compilations of easy access. Current Parliamentary Guides, and Guides to the Church, the Bench, and the Bar, may be in the hands of anybody who requires them. Then, in the case of authors and artists, a few of their best-known works are mentioned; but The B (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Born at Dumfries on 2 May 1830, he was son of Andrew Irving, a joiner.
After being educated at the parish school of Troqueer, over the River Nith from Dumfries, he served an apprenticeship as a printer in the office of the Dumfries Standard. Irving then worked practised as compositor and journalist in Dumfries and Sunderland. He was for a time on the staff of the Morning Chronicle in London, and in 1854 became editor of the Dumbarton Herald.
Foreign some years afterwards he was a bookseller in Dumbarton, and started in 1867 the Dumbarton Journal, which was unsuccessful.
After living a few years in Renton, Dumbartonshire, he settled in Paisley in 1880, where he wrote for the Glasgow Herald and other journals. After some years of uncertain health, Irving died at Paisley, on 2 September 1891.
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In 1860 Irving became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and in 1864 an honorary member of the Archæological Society of Glasgow.