Robert Anderson (editor and biographer)

Robert Anderson (7 January 1750 – 20 February 1830) was a Scottish author and critic.[1]

He was born at Carnwath, Lanarkshire. He studied first divinity and then medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and subsequently, after some experience as a surgeon, took his M.D. at the University of St Andrews in 1778. He began to practise as a physician at Alnwick in Northumberland, but he became financially independent by his marriage with the daughter of John Gray, and abandoned his profession for a literary life in Edinburgh.[1]

For several years his attention was occupied with his edition of The Works of the British Poets, with Prefaces Biographical and Critical (14 vols. 8vo, Edin., 1792–1807). His other publications were:[1]

Anderson was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1816.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Anderson, Robert". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. American Antiquarian Society Members Directory

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

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