John Williams

(1792-1858)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Williams, John, 1792-1858 DNB: Williams, John (1792-1858), schoolmaster and classical scholar LBT ID: JoWilli1858 VIAF ID: 76196279 LOC ID: nr94010038	B/BAP: 1792 DIED: 1858-12-27
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Classical scholar educated at Balliol College, Oxford; he was a classmate of John Gibson Lockhart and friend of Sir Walter Scott, whose son he tutored, and rector of the Edinburgh Academy (1824-27, 1829-47).
CORRESPONDENCE OF John Williams: John Gibson Lockhart to [John Williams?], 6 January 1816 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)