Hector Boece

(1465 c.-1536)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Boece, Hector, 1465?-1536 DNB: Boece [Boethius], Hector (c.1465-1536), historian and college head LBT ID: HeBoece1536 VIAF ID: 17337454 LOC ID: nr93001220	B/BAP: 1465 DIED: 1536
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Scottish scholar who composed a Latin history of Scotland; he was the first principal of the University of Aberdeen (1498).
REFERENCES TO Hector Boece: Walter Scott to George Ellis, 27 August 1803 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1: ¶ 24 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XII 1803-04