| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Irving, David, 1778-1860 NRA: Irving David (1778-1860) Biographer DNB: Irving, David (1778-1860), literary scholar and librarian LBT ID: DaIrvin1860 VIAF ID: 50010933 LOC ID: n85351626 | B/BAP:   1778-12-05 DIED: 1860-04-10 | 
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| Scottish scholar and man of letters; he published Lives of Scottish
                            Authors (1800) and Elements of English Composition (1801),
                        and was librarian of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh (1820). | |