David Monypenny, Lord Pitmilly

(1769-1850)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Monypenny, David LBT ID: DaMonyp1850 VIAF ID: 31083770 LOC ID: n88088942	B/BAP: 1769-05 DIED: 1850-12-24
SOURCES: Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Walter Scott; Matthew Forster Conolly, Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Men of Fife of Past and Present Times (1866) 338; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Educated at Edinburgh University, he was depute-sheriff of Fife (1807), Solicitor-General of Scotland (1811), and raised to the Bench as Lord Pitmilly (1813-20).
REFERENCES TO David Monypenny, Lord Pitmilly: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1783-86 Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter V 1786-90 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter VII 1826 Found 1: ¶ 12