John Clerk, Lord Eldin

(1757-1832)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Eldin, John Clerk, Lord, 1757-1832 NRA: Clerk, John (1757-1832) Lord Eldin Scottish Judge DNB: Clerk, John, Lord Eldin (1757-1832), judge LBT ID: JoClerk1832 VIAF ID: 4786924 LOC ID: nr91024040	B/BAP: 1757 DIED: 1832-05-30
SOURCES: DNB; James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Edinburgh lawyer and judge; he was a member of the Speculative Society and an original member of the Bannatyne Club, raised to the bench as Lord Eldin in 1823.
REFERENCES TO John Clerk, Lord Eldin: “Notice from the Editor” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (November 1817) title-page verso Found 1: ¶ 12 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 50 Chapter V 1786-90 Found 2: ¶ 26 ¶ n1 Chapter III 1806 Found 1: ¶ 14 Chapter X 1823 Found 1: ¶ 8