Robert Carruthers

Robert Carruthers

Robert Carruthers (1799 - 1878), journalist and miscellaneous writer, born in Dumfriesshire, was for a time a teacher in Huntingdon, and wrote a "History of Huntingdon" (1824). In 1828 he became editor of the "Inverness Courier", which he conducted with great ability. He edited Alexander Pope's works with a memoir (1853), and along with Robert Chambers edited the first edition of "Chambers' Cyclopædia of English Literature" (1842-44). He received the degree of LL.D. from Edinbugh


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