David Downie

(1795 fl.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Downie, David, goldsmith LBT ID: DaDowni1794 VIAF ID: 60566740 LOC ID: n86096491
SOURCES: John Kay, A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings (1838) 1:352-55; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Edinburgh goldsmith in Parliament Square; he was a political radical who was convicted and exiled in the treason trials of 1794-95.
REFERENCES TO David Downie: Walter Scott to Miss Christian Rutherford, 5 September 1794 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Miss Christian Rutherford, [October] 1794 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 VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ 33