Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies

(1760-1842)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gillies, Adam Gillies, Lord, 1766-1842 NRA: Gillies Adam (1760-1842) Lord Gillies Scottish Judge DNB: Gillies, Adam, Lord Gillies (1760-1842), judge LBT ID: AdGilli1842 VIAF ID: 22000115 LOC ID: nr91032460	B/BAP: 1760 DIED: 1842-12-24
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Scottish jurist, the brother of the historian John Gillies and uncle of Robert Pearse Gillies; he was admitted to the bar in 1787 and succeeded Lord Craig as a lord of justiciary in 1812.
REFERENCES TO Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies: “Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Literary Journal 4 (10 July 1830) 21-23 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 IX 1826 Found 1: ¶ 27