. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. of Woodhouse-lee, Mid Lothian,—the haunted Woodhouselee of Sir Wal-ter Scotts ballad of The Gray Brother. The family nameoriginally was Seton. that of Tytler baring been assumed bt TYTLER, 587 ALEXANDER FRASER. the ancestor of the famiiy, a cadet of the noble house of Se-ton, who temp. James IV., in a sudden quarrel at a huntingmatch, slew a gentleman of the name of Gray, fled to France,and changed his name to Tytler. His two sons returned toScotland in the train of Queen
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. of Woodhouse-lee, Mid Lothian,—the haunted Woodhouselee of Sir Wal-ter Scotts ballad of The Gray Brother. The family nameoriginally was Seton. that of Tytler baring been assumed bt TYTLER, 587 ALEXANDER FRASER. the ancestor of the famiiy, a cadet of the noble house of Se-ton, who temp. James IV., in a sudden quarrel at a huntingmatch, slew a gentleman of the name of Gray, fled to France,and changed his name to Tytler. His two sons returned toScotland in the train of Queen Mary in 1561, and from theelder the families of Balnain and VVoodhouselee descend. TYTLER, William, historian and antiquari-an, the son of Alexander Tytler, a writer in Ed-inburgh, Avas born there October 12, 1711. Hereceived his education at the High School and atthe university of his native city, and in 1744 wasadmitted into the society of writers to the signet,which profession he exercised till his death. Hisportrait, from a painting by Racburn, engravedby Beugo, (in Scots Magazine, vol. lxiii.,) is sub-joined :. In 1759 he published, in one volume, his cele-brated Inquiry, Historical and Critical, into theEvidence against Mary, Queen of Scots. Inthis work he warmly vindicated the canse ofthe unfortunate Mary, and with much inge-nuity and plausibility exposed the fallacy of theproofs on which the charges against her had beenfounded. In 1783 he published The PoeticalRemains of James I., King of Scotland, with aDissertation on the Life and Writings of thatmonarch. He was an active member, and one of the vice-presidents of the Edinburgh AntiquarianSociety, and besides the works named, he wrotean Essay on Scottish Music, appended to Ai -nots History of Edinburgh, as well as severalpapers inserted in the Antiquarian the sixteenth number of The Lounger hecontributed a paper on the Defects of ModernFemale Education, in teaching the Duties of aWife. He died Septem
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