Alexander Abercromby (lawyer)
Alexander Abercromby , Lord Abercromby, (born October 15, 1745 in Clackmannanshire , † November 17, 1795 in Exmouth , Devonshire ) was a Scottish lawyer and essayist.
Alexander Abercromby was the fourth and youngest son of the Scottish lawyer George Abercrombie, of Tullibody , Clackmannanshire, and his wife Mary, daughter of Ralph Dundas, Esq. from Manor. His father was born in 1705, was admitted to the bar in 1728 and died on June 8, 1800 at the age of 95 as the oldest member of the judges' college. His siblings included the generals Sir Robert Abercromby , later commander-in-chief in India, and Sir Ralph Abercromby, who died in Egypt in 1801 .
Alexander studied at the University of Edinburgh , became a member of the Faculty of Advocates (a kind of bar association) in 1766 and shortly afterwards sheriff (magistrate) in Clackmannanshire. Since this office did not require personal presence, he continued to practice as a lawyer in Edinburgh. In 1780 he resigned and was appointed Depute-Advocate by the then Lord-Advocate of Scotland , Henry Dundas . In May 1792 he was appointed as Lord Abercromby to judge of the Court of Session and Law Lord and in December of the same year to the Lord Commissioner of Justiciary for Scotland ( Lord of Justiciary ).
On a business trip in the spring of 1795, he contracted pneumonia, from which he did not recover and died during a futile recovery period.
In addition to his profession as a lawyer, Abercromby supported the writer Henry Mackenzie , author of the Man of Feeling (1771), in founding the weekly Mirror , which appeared in Edinburgh from 1779 to 1780, and wrote eleven articles for it himself. He wrote another nine articles in 1785 and 1786 for the Lounger , a similar journal.
In 1783 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .
A short article in his memory wrote his friend Henry Mackenzie for the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume IV).
literature
- Abercromby, Alexander . In: William Anderson: The Scottish Nation: Or the Namen, Families, Literature, Honors and Biographical History of The People of Scotland. - Edinburgh and London: A. Fullerton & Co, 1863
Individual evidence
- ↑ shaper RSE Fellows 1783-2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 3, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abercromby, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish lawyer and essayist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1745 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Clackmannanshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1795 |
| Place of death | Exmouth , Devonshire |