LORD BYRON and his TIMES
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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Robertson, William, 1721-1793 NRA: Robertson William (1721-1793) historian DNB: Robertson, William (1721-1793), historian and Church of Scotland minister LBT ID: WiRober1793 VIAF ID: 59177542 LOC ID: n50049179 | B/BAP: 1721-09-08 DIED: 1793-06-11 |
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Educated at Edinburgh University of which he became principal (1762), he was a
highly-regarded historian, the author of History of Scotland in the Reign
of Queen Mary and of King James VI (1759) and The History of the
Reign of Charles V (1769). | |
