Cosmo Innes
Cosmo Nelson Innes FRSE (9 September 1798, Durris-on-Deeside – 31 July 1874, Killin) was a Scottish advocate, judge, historian and antiquary. He served as Advocate-Depute, Sheriff of Elginshire, and Principal Clerk of Session.
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Life
Born to John Innes of Leuchars WS and Euphemia Russell, he was educated at Edinburgh High School, at Aberdeen and Glasgow Universities, and at Balliol College, Oxford.[1] He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1822, and was appointed Professor of Constitutional Law and History in the University of Edinburgh in 1846.
In the 1830s he was living in Allan Ramsay's former house, Ramsay Lodge, at the top of the Royal Mile (later absorbed into Ramsay Gardens).[2]
He was the author of Scotland in the Middle Ages (1860), and Sketches of Early Scottish History (1861). He also edited many historical manuscripts for the Bannatyne Club and other antiquarian clubs.
Family
In 1826 Innes married Isabella, daughter of Hugh Rose of Kilravock.
His daughter Katherine married historian John Hill Burton in 1855.[3] Their children included engineer W. K. Burton, the artist Mary Rose Hill Burton and the chemist Prof Cosmo Innes Burton FCS FRSE.[4]
His daughter Mary married Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.[5]
References
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- ↑ W. W. Wroth, ‘Innes, Cosmo Nelson (1798–1874)’, rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed as archived article (no longer current version)
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cosmo_Innes&action=edit§ion=2
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- Katherine Burton, Memoir of Cosmo Innes (1874)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Wikisource
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