1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ERSKINE. HENRY (1746-1817), lord advocate of Scotland, the second son of Henry David, loth earl of Buchan and brother of the lord chancellor Erskine, was born in Edinburgh on the ist of November 1746. He was educated at the universities of St Andrews, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and was admitted a member of the faculty of advocates in 1768. His reputation as a clever and fluent speaker was first made in the debates of the general assembly, of which he had been early elected an elder. In 1783 he was appointed to the offi…
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