Background
Robert Bisset was the son of Review Doctor Bisset, minister of Logierait, Perthshire.
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Robert Bisset
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Though he studied for the church in Edinburgh, Robert Bisset eventually became a Doctor of Laws and moved to England.
Career
He was editor of the short-lived The Historical Magazine. Or Classical Library of Public Events from November 1788 to December 1792. Bisset"s Biographical Sketch of the Authors of the Spectator, the first volume of an eight-volume edition of the Spectator, included sketches of Addison, Steele, Thomas Parnell, John Hughes, Eustace Budgell, Laurence Eusden, Thomas Tickell and Alexander Pope.
Bisset also wrote two novels, two proslavery tracts, "and a spate of polemical, antidemocratic writing".
Views
His of Edmund Burke (1798) praised Burke highly, defending his political consistency against detractors.
