George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse

(1771-1850)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cranstoun, George, Lord Corehouse (d. 1850), judge LBT ID: GeCrans1850	B/BAP: 1771 DIED: 1850-06-26
SOURCES: DNB; James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott; thePeerage.com
Scottish judge and scholar, the brother-in-law of Dugald Stewart and friend of Walter Scott; he was raised to the bench in 1826 as Lord Corehouse.
REFERENCES TO George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse: Jane Anne Cranstoun to Walter Scott, [1796] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 4 “Notice from the Editor” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (November 1817) title-page verso Found 1: ¶ 12 Sir Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 20 July 1820 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 3 Sir Walter Scott to the Countess Purgstall, [1821] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 7 ¶ 9 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1786-90 Found 1: ¶ 21 Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 3: ¶ 55 ¶ 63 ¶ n1 Chapter IX 1798-99 Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 Chapter XI 1802-03 Found 1: ¶ 16 Chapter I 1804-05 Found 1: ¶ 27 Chapter VI 1821 Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter XI 1823 Found 1: ¶ 19 Chapter X 1826 Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter II 1827 Found 1: ¶ 29 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Life of Thomson Found 1: ¶ n1 Scottish Lawyers Found 1: ¶ 1 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. IV 1822 Found 1: ¶ 1 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Found 1: ¶ 13 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XIX. Found 1: ¶ 32 Chap. XX. Found 1: ¶ 2 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 8: 1819-20 Found 1: ¶ 7 Chapter 9: 1820-21 Found 1: ¶ 4 Chapter 10: 1821-24 Found 1: ¶ 8