David Cathcart, Lord Alloway

(1763-1829)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Alloway, David Cathcart, Lord, 1764-1829 NRA: Cathcart David (1763-1829) Lord Alloway judge DNB: Cathcart, David, Lord Alloway (1763-1829), judge LBT ID: DaCathc1829 VIAF ID: 26914750 LOC ID: nr90018957	B/BAP: 1763-12-30 DIED: 1829-04-27
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The son of a merchant, he was a Scottish advocate (1785) raised to the bench in 1813; he was a member of Edinburgh's Friday Club.
REFERENCES TO David Cathcart, Lord Alloway: Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 2 March 1810 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 VIII 1810