Charles Erskine of Shielfield

(1771-1825)

LBT ID: ChErski1825	B/BAP: 1771 DIED: 1825-01-26
SOURCES: George Tancred, The Annals of a Border Club (the Jedforest) (1899) 209; James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott
Scottish Writer to the Signet; he was baron balie of Melrose and sheriff-substitute of Selkirkshire under Walter Scott.
REFERENCES TO Charles Erskine of Shielfield: Walter Scott to John Ballantyne, 14 October 1814 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to the Duke of Buccleuch, 11 January 1817 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter X 1814-15 Found 1: ¶ 12 Chapter II 1817 Chapter VI 1818 Found 1: ¶ 7 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Found 1: ¶ 20