James Purvis

(1811 fl.)

LBT ID: JaPurvi1811
SOURCES: The Edinburgh Annual Register for 1826 8 (1828) 173; James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott
The early friend of the poet John Leyden; he was a naval purser. A James Purvis was killed in an explosion on the Pitt, 13 July 1826.
REFERENCES TO James Purvis: Walter Scott to John Leyden, 25 August 1811 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 XI 1811