. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. d, with unsparing liberality. In his intercourse with society he would freelystate his opinions, and though he was careful notto offend the prejudices of others, he never shrankfrom a plain and straightforward assertion of hisviews. He who sought his professional advicewas sure to have a courteous reception, and couldnever leave him without benefiting by his judg-ment. No petty feeling of jealousy induced himto withhold his stores of knowledge, nor could hisprofound intim
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. d, with unsparing liberality. In his intercourse with society he would freelystate his opinions, and though he was careful notto offend the prejudices of others, he never shrankfrom a plain and straightforward assertion of hisviews. He who sought his professional advicewas sure to have a courteous reception, and couldnever leave him without benefiting by his judg-ment. No petty feeling of jealousy induced himto withhold his stores of knowledge, nor could hisprofound intimacy with the principles of his artever render him impatient of the task of giving tohis less gifted brethren the results of his study, orthe fruits of his experience. His strong naturalsense, his shrewdness of remark, and his quietvein of humour, rendered his conversation as in-structive as it was agreeable ; so much so, indeed,that George Colman, on one occasion, observed toa mutual friend, that That Scotchmans conver-sation was worth a guinea an hour, for his sly witand acute observation. His portrait is Sir David Wilkies unfinished works and original sketches were exposed to sale in May 1842,and brought the sum of £6,663 Us. 6d. The salelasted six days. A memoir of his life was pub-lished in 1S44 b\- Allan Cunningham. WILLIAM I. 643 WILLIAM 1. WILLIAM I., King of Scots, styled Williamthe Lion, from being the first Scottish monarchwho assumed the figure of a lion rampant on hisshield, grandson of David I., and brother of Mal-colm IV., was born in 1143. He succeeded tothe throne in 1165, and soon after he repaired tothe English court, to endeavour to obtain fromHenry II. of England the restoration of the terri-tory of Northumberland, which had been relin-quished by Malcolm. Henry put him off withfair promises, and, at length, finding all his soli-citations fruitless, William sent ambassadors toFrance, in 1168, and concluded a treaty with theFrench king against En
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