John Clerk of Eldin

(1728-1812)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Clerk, John, 1728-1812 NRA: Clerk John (1782-1812) Naval Writer DNB: Clerk, John, of Eldin (1728-1812), naval writer LBT ID: JoClerk1812 VIAF ID: 42624692 LOC ID: n85009086	B/BAP: 1728-12-10 DIED: 1812-05-10
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The son of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, second baronet, he was an Edinburgh merchant and Scottish Enlightenment figure who published An Essay on Naval Tactics (1790).
REFERENCES TO John Clerk of Eldin: Walter Scott to William Clerk, 6 August 1790 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1786-90 Found 1: ¶ 26 Chapter VI 1790-92 Chapter I 1816 Found 1: ¶ 8