Patrick Fraser Tytler

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Patrick Fraser Tytler, by Margaret Sarah Carpenter, exhibited 1845

Patrick Fraser Tytler FRSE FSA (Scot) (30 August 1791Template:Snd24 December 1849) was a Scottish advocate and historian. He was described as the "Episcopalian historian of a Presbyterian country".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Life

The Fraser Tytler family vault, Greyfriars Kirkyard

The son of Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, he was born in a house on George Street in Edinburgh's New Town.<ref>Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1790</ref> He was named after his paternal uncle, Col Patrick Tytler. He was educated at the Edinburgh High School.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: | 

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He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh in 1813; in 1816 he became King's counsel in the Exchequer, and practised as an advocate until 1832.<ref name="EB1911"/> At this time he was living at 36 Melville Street, a large terraced townhouse in Edinburgh's west end.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He then moved to London, and it was largely owing to his efforts that a scheme for publishing state papers was carried out. Tytler was one of the founders of the Bannatyne Club and of the English Historical Society.<ref name="EB1911"/>

He died at Great Malvern on 24 December 1849.<ref name=fellows>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> His body was returned to Edinburgh for burial in the family vault, which lies within the sealed south-west section of Greyfriars Kirkyard known as the Covenanter's Prison.<ref name=fellows />

His biography (1859) was written by his friend John William Burgon.

Family

Tytler first married Rachel Elisabeth Hog (sister of James Maitland Hog FRSE) on 30 March 1826 at Newliston and together they had 3 children, including Mary Stewart Fraser Tytler (1827–1887) who is buried in Grange Cemetery rather than in the family vault. Rachel died on 15 April 1835.

He then married on either 12 or 22 August 1845, in Richmond, his cousin, Anastasia Bonar, daughter of Thomson Bonar (1780–1828) of Campden, Kent, by his spouse Anastasia Jessie Gascoigne, widow of Charles Gascoigne, daughter of Matthew Guthrie of Halkerton.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Works

Tytler is most noted for his literary output. He contributed to Archibald Alison's Travels in France (1815); his first independent essays were papers in Blackwood's Magazine. His major work, the History of Scotland (1828–1843), covered the period between 1249 and 1603.<ref name="EB1911"/> A second edition was published in 1841–1843.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The seventh volume deals with the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots after her marriage with Darnley.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

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References

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  • The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants, etc., by Messrs, John and John Bernard Burke, London, volume 1 (1848) pedigree CLXXIX.

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The contents of the missing Volume V above, from the 3rd Edition, are contained in a later edition, immediately following (which itself is from an incomplete edition of Tytler's History).

Several of his other works

Works about him and his publications

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