James Clerk

(1773-1796)

LBT ID: JaClerk1796	B/BAP: 1773 DIED: 1796-08
SOURCES: James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott
The son of John Clerk of Eldin and the brother of Lord Eldin (1757-1832) and Scott's friend William Clerk; he was a naval officer who died in Antiqua.
REFERENCES TO James Clerk: Walter Scott to William Clerk, 6 August 1790 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Walter Scott to William Clerk, 3 September 1790 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n3 Walter Scott to William Clerk, 26 August 1791 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Walter Scott to William Clerk, 30 September 1792 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 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: ¶ 24 Chapter VI 1790-92 Found 1: ¶ n3 Chapter VII 1792-96