The Honourable Henry Erskine Lord Advocate For Scotland With Notices Of Certain Of His Kinsfolk And Of His Time Compiled From Family Papers Etc With Illustrations

Author : Alexander Fergusson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266872696
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book The Honourable Henry Erskine, Lord Advocate for Scotland written by Alexander Fergusson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Honourable Henry Erskine, Lord Advocate for Scotland: With Notices of Certain of His Kinsfolk and of His Time; Compiled From Family Papers and Other Sources of Information The late Lord Buchan (mr Erskine's son) never lost sight of the idea that a memoir of his father should be written, and with this view, from time to time, recorded with much care and detail facts concerning his father's life, professional career, and incidents connected with the Erskine family generally, till a very extensive collee tion of notes is the result. It is this ms. Volume that forms the chief basis of the following memoir, which has been undertaken with the view of carrying out the wish of the Dowager Countess of Buchan, Mr Erskine's daughter-in-law, especially, that the materials collected by her husband should, even at this late hour, be applied to the purpose he had at heart. Without such data it would have been very difficult to produce even such an imperfect sketch as is now presented. When it became known that it was contemplated to attempt a sketch of Henry Erskine's career and his time, other materials were freely offered, the existence of which had not been suspected; amongst these is a ms. Volume - which had belonged to the late Charles Kirk patrick Sharpe - by Sir David Erskine, Kt., who, hav ing had access to the old documents, etc., of the Erskine family, very faithfully transcribed many of them. This collection, lent by the Rev. W. K. R. Bedford, Mr Kirkpatrick Sharpe's nephew, has been made use of in the introductory part of this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.