Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet
Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet FRSE (born December 29, 1792 in Kenley , † May 23, 1867 in Possilpark ) was a Scottish lawyer, civil servant and historian.
Life
Born the son of a pastor Alison studied in Edinburgh Jura was 1814 lawyer, came in 1822 in the civil service and was 1834 Sheriff of Lanarkshire .
He became known in England through the works The principles of the criminal law of Scotland (1832) and Practice of the criminal law (1833).
He later published various historical representations, which were widely used in Europe in the 19th century, and which were published and translated. The work History of Europe had a remarkable for its time commercial success. Alison described the story as a chain of effects manifesting the rule of providence. In addition, he sat down in his 1840 published font Principles of population with the Malthusian theory of population development critically. From 1850 to 1852 he was Rector of the University of Glasgow . On June 25, 1852, Alison was made Hereditary Baronet , of Possil House in the County of Devon, and was made an Honorary Doctor of Laws by Oxford University in 1853 . Since 1830 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .
Works
- Principles of the Criminal Law of Scotland. W. Blackwood, Edinburgh 1832, OCLC 8715591 .
- Practice of the Criminal Law of Scotland. W. Blackwood, Edinburgh 1833, OCLC 8715578 .
- History ot Europe from the commencement of the French revolution to the restoration of the Bourbons (das. 1833–42, 14 vols. Ten editions, last 1860, 14 volumes).
- Principles of population. 1840.
- England in 1815 and 1845. 1847.
- The Military Life of John, Duke of Marlborough. Harper & Bros., New York 1848, OCLC 1437529 .
- Political and historical essays. 1850 (3 vols., Collection of articles previously published in Blackwood's Magazine ).
- History of Europe from the fall of Napoleon to the accession of Louis Napoleon (2nd ed., Edinb. 1865, 8 vols.).
- Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart. W. Blackwood, Edinburgh 1861, OCLC 456774545 .
- Some Account of My Life and Writings: An Autobiography, Volumes I – II. W. Blackwood, Edinburgh 1883, OCLC 4385121 .
literature
- Michael Fry: Alison, Sir Archibald, first baronet. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
- Leslie Stephen: Alison, Archibald (1792-1867) . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 1: Abbadie - Anne. MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1885, pp 287 - 290 (English).
Web links
- Literature by and about Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert P. Dod: The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. Whitaker and Co., London 1860, p. 88.
- ↑ John Derry. In: John Cannon (Ed.) The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians. Basil Blackwell Ltd., Oxford and New York 1988, ISBN 0-631-14708-X , p. 7.
- ^ Alison, 1) Sir Archibald . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 1, Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig / Vienna 1905, p. 332 .
- ↑ shaper RSE Fellows 1783-2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 5, 2019 .
| predecessor | title | successor |
|---|---|---|
| New title created | Baronet, of Possil House 1868–1907 |
Archibald Alison |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alison, Archibald, 1st Baronet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish lawyer, civil servant and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kenley |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1867 |
| Place of death | Possilpark |