Background
He was born in Edinburgh on the 12th of October 1711, the son of Alexander Tytler.
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An Inquiry, Historical and Critical V2: Into the Evidence Against Mary, Queen of Scots (1790) AN INQUIRY, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL V2: INTO THE EVIDENCE AGAINST MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS (1790) By Tytler, William ( Author )Jan-01-2009 Paperback
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William Tytler
William Tytler was a Scottish lawyer, known as a historical writer and antiquarian.
Education
He was educated at Edinburgh high school and the university of Edinburgh.
Career
In 1744 he became a writer to the signet. He was successful in his profession, and acquired the estate of Woodhouselee on the south of the Pentland Hills.
Tytler was interested inarcheology and history. His prescription for a happy old age has been often quoted: "short but cheerful meals, music, and a good conscience". He died at Woodhouselee on 12 September 1792. He was an accomplished player on the harpsichord and on the flute.
Tytler contributed papers to The Lounger, including one on the Defects of Modern Female Education in teaching the Duties of a Wife (No. 16). His first independent work, published in 1759, was The Inquiry, Historical and Critical, into the Evidence against Mary Queen of Scots, and an Examination of the Histories of Dr. Robertson and David Hume with respect to that Evidence. Anticipated in its stance of apologetics for Mary Queen of Scots in 1754 by Walter Goodall, his work held the field till the publication in 1869 of John Hosack's Mary Queen of Scots and her Accusers. It went through four editions, was translated into French in 1772, and again in 1860, and it was reviewed by Samuel Johnson and Tobias Smollett. He wrote a supplement on the Bothwell marriage, published in the Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland in 1792.
Achievements
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He wrote An Inquiry into the Evidence against Mary Queen of Scots, against the views of William Robertson. He discovered in manuscript the Kingis Quhair, a poem of James I of Scotland.
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Miscellanies in Verse: Consisting of Poems, Tales, Translations, &C (Classic Reprint)
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- An Inquiry, Historical and Critical V2: Into the Evidence Against Mary, Queen of Scots (1790) AN INQUIRY, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL V2: INTO THE EVIDENCE AGAINST MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS (1790) By Tytler, William ( Author )Jan-01-2009 Paperback
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Miscellanies in Verse: Consisting of Poems, Tales, Translations, &C (Classic Reprint)
Membership
He joined the Select Society founded by Allan Ramsay the painter, in 1754, and took part in its debates.
He was an original member of the Musical Society of Edinburgh.
Connections
By his marriage to Ann, daughter of James Craig of Costerton, Tytler had eight children, four of whom predeceased him.
- Father:
- Alexander Tytler
- Mother:
- Jane Leslie of Aberdeen
- Son:
- Colonel Patrick Tytler
- Son:
- Alexander Fraser Tytler
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Died
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Nationality
Scottish