Cosmo Innes

Cosmo Innes

Cosmo Nelson Innes (9 September 1798, Durris-on-Deeside - 31 July 1874, Killin) was a Scottish historian and antiquary.

Innes was educated at Edinburgh High School, at Aberdeen and Glasgow Universities, and at Balliol College, Oxford.[1] He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1822, and was appointed Professor of Constitutional Law and History in the University of Edinburgh in 1846. He was the author of Scotland in the Middle Ages (1860), and Sketches of Early Scottish History (1861). He also edited many historical MSS. for the Bannatyne Club and other antiquarian clubs.

His daughter Mary married Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.

References

  1. ^ Innes, Cosmo Nelson in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.

External links

Links to several of his works:

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.



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