A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . John Tytiers eldest son was 7. The Rev. George Tytler, born in 1706, died 29th July 1785, minister of Premnay, Aberdeenshire, 1733, and of Fearn, near Brechin, his wife, Janet Robertson (who died21st July 1795)—besides two daughters,Barbara, who married, and Mary, who diedin infancy—he had three sons :— 1. George, born 4th May 1737. 2. James. 3. Henry-William, of whom after-wards. The second son, 8. James Tytler, born 17th Dec
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . John Tytiers eldest son was 7. The Rev. George Tytler, born in 1706, died 29th July 1785, minister of Premnay, Aberdeenshire, 1733, and of Fearn, near Brechin, his wife, Janet Robertson (who died21st July 1795)—besides two daughters,Barbara, who married, and Mary, who diedin infancy—he had three sons :— 1. George, born 4th May 1737. 2. James. 3. Henry-William, of whom after-wards. The second son, 8. James Tytler, born 17th December 1745, was a laboriousmiscellaneous writer. After a regularmedical education at the University ofEdinburgh, and two voyages in the capa-city of surgeon on board a Greenlandwhaler, he attempted to secure practice in the Scottish metropolis ; andsubsequently opened a shop in Leith for the sale of chemical preparations,which did not prove very successful. 1 See Fasti Ecclesia Scoticancr. and Jervises Lands of the BALLOON TYTLER 571 James Tytler largely contributed to the second edition of the Encyclo-pedia Britannica, which began to be published in 1776. The paymentwhich he received for his literary productions is said to have been verysmall, and his poverty was so great that, during the progress of theEncyclopedia, he lived at Duddingston in the house of a washerwoman,whose inverted tub formed the only desk he could command! It isbelieved, however, that his privations were mainly attributable to hisintemperate habits. While confined within the precincts of the Sanctuary of Holyrood, hethrew off various productions, generally without the intermediate use ofmanuscript, from a printing-press of his own manufacture. In this mannerhe commenced an abridgment of that colossal work, the Universal History;and his subsequent publications included the Edinburgh GeographicalGrammar and a System of Surgery. He was also the author of LochErochside and other popular songs
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