Patrick Fraser Tytler

Patrick Fraser Tytler, by Margaret Sarah Carpenter, exhibited 1845

Patrick Fraser Tytler FRSE FSA(Scot) (30 August 1791 – 14 December 1849) was a Scottish advocate and historian.

Life

The Fraser Tytler family vault, Greyfriars Kirkyard

The son of Alexander Fraser Tytler Lord Woodhouselee, he was born in Edinburgh, where he attended the Royal High School.

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. At this time he was living at 36 Melville Street, a large terraced townhouse in Edinburgh's fashionable west end.^[1]

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. He died at Great Malvern on 24 December 1849.^[2] His biography (1859) was written by his friend John William Burgon.

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.^[3]

Family

Tytler first married Rachel Elisabeth Hog on 30/3/1826 at Newliston and had 3 children, including Mary Stewart Fraser Tytler (1827-1887) who is buried in Grange Cemetery rather than in the family vault. Rachel died 15/4/1835. He then married on 12 or 22/8/1845 in Richmond Anastasia Bonar, daughter of Thomson Bonar, Esq., (1780–1828) of Campden, Kent, by his spouse Anastasia Jessey, daughter of Matthew Guthrie of Halkerton, M.D.

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.

His other works include:

• contributions to George Thomson's Select Melodies of Scotland (1824)
• Life of James Crichton of Cluny, commonly called the Admirable Crichton (1819; 2nd ed., 1823)
• a Memoir of Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton (1823)
• an Essay on the Revival of Greek Literature in Italy, and The Life of John Wycliffe, published anonymously (1826)
• Lives of Scottish Worthies, for Murray's Family Library (1831–1833)
• Historical View of the Progress of Discovery in America (1832)
• Life of Sir Walter Raleigh (1833)
• Memoirs of the War Carried on in Scotland and Ireland in 1689-1691 (1833)
• Life of Henry VIII. (1837)
• England under the Reigns of Edward VI. and Mary, from original letters (1839)
• Notes on the Darnley Jewel (1843)
• Portraits of Mary Queen of Scots (1845).

References

1. http://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=83401923&mode=transcription
2. http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf
3. http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

• 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.

External links

• Works by Patrick Fraser Tytler at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Patrick Fraser Tytler at Internet Archive
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1840), "An Historical Inquiry into the Ancient State of Scotland", The History of Scotland (1346–1407) II (3rd ed.), Edinburgh: William Tait (published 1845), pp. 107–320, retrieved 17 August 2008

• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1828), The History of Scotland (1249–1346) I (3rd ed.), Edinburgh: William Tait (published 1840), retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1829), The History of Scotland (1346–1424) II (3rd ed.), Edinburgh: William Tait (published 1845), retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1831), The History of Scotland (1407–1497) III (3rd ed.), Edinburgh: William Tait (published 1840), retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1833), The History of Scotland (1497–1546) IV (3rd ed.), Edinburgh: William Tait (published 1845), retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1835), The History of Scotland (1546–1567) V (3rd ed.), Edinburgh: William Tait
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1837), The History of Scotland (1567–1586) VI (3rd ed.), Edinburgh: William Tait (published 1845), retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1843), The History of Scotland (1586–1606) VII (3rd ed.), Edinburgh: William Tait (published 1845), retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1845), The History of Scotland (Index to the 3rd Edition) (3rd ed.), Edinburgh: William Tait (published 1850), retrieved 17 August 2008

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).

• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1843), The History of Scotland (1542–1573) III, Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo (published 1864), retrieved 17 August 2008

• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1845), Taylor, James; Reid, Alexander, eds., The History of Scotland: From the Contribution of Patrick Fraser Tytler, Esq. to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, retrieved 17 August 2008

Several of his other works

• Alison, Archibald; Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1815), Travels in France, During the Years 1814 – 1815 I, Edinburgh: Macredie, Skelly, and Muckersey, retrieved 17 August 2008
• Alison, Archibald; Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1815), Travels in France, During the Years 1814 – 1815 II, Edinburgh: Macredie, Skelly, and Muckersey, retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1819), Life of James Crichton of Cluny, Commonly Called the Admirable Crichton, Edinburgh: William and Charles Tait, retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1823), An Account of the Life and Writings of Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton, Edinburgh: W. & C. Tait, retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1826), The Life of John Wickliff, Edinburgh: William Whyte and Co, and Maclachlan and Stewart (published 1842), retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1832), Lives of Scottish Worthies I, London: John Murray, retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1832), Lives of Scottish Worthies II, London: John Murray, retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1832), Lives of Scottish Worthies III, London: John Murray (published 1833), retrieved 17 August 2008
• Mackay, Hugh (1692), Hog, James M.; Tytler, Patrick Fraser; Urquhart, Adam, eds., Memoirs of the War Carried on in Scotland and Ireland 1689 – 1691, Edinburgh: The Bannatyne Club (published 1833), retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1833), Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the More Northern Coasts of America, New York: Harper & Brothers (published 1842), retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1836), Life of King Henry the Eighth, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd (published 1837), retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1839), England Under the Reigns of Edward VI and Mary I, London: Richard Bentley, retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1839), England Under the Reigns of Edward VI and Mary II, London: Richard Bentley, retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1848), Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, Founded on Authentic and Original Documents, London: T. Nelson and Sons (published 1853), retrieved 17 August 2008
• Tytler, Patrick Fraser (18??), Memorable Wars of Scotland, Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo (published 1896), retrieved 17 August 2008 Check date values in: |date= (help)

Works about him and his publications

• Burgon, John W. (1859), The Portrait of a Christian Gentleman. A Memoir of Patrick Fraser Tytler (2nd ed.), London: John Murray, retrieved 3 December 2013
• Cecil, Richard (18??), "Patrick Fraser Tytler", Favourite Passages in Modern Christian Biography, London: James Hogg & Sons, pp. 260–280, retrieved 17 August 2008 Check date values in: |date= (help)
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), "Patrick Fraser Tytler", The Encyclopædia Britannica: Tonalite to Vesuvius, XXVII (11th ed.), New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company, p. 552, retrieved 17 August 2008
• Fraser, Patrick (1845), Tytler's History of Scotland Examined: A Review, Edinburgh: W. P. Kennedy (published 1858), retrieved 17 August 2008 – a review taking Tytler to task on a number of points; first printed in the North British Review (May – August 1845).
•  "Tytler, Patrick Fraser". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
• Small, John (1844), Biographical Sketch of Patrick Fraser Tytler, Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, retrieved 17 August 2008