Sir John Graham Dalyell, sixth baronet

(1775-1851)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dalyell, John Graham, Sir, 1775-1851 NRA: Dalyell, Sir John Graham (1775-1851) Knight, antiquary and naturalist DNB: Dalyell, Sir John Graham, sixth baronet (1775-1851), antiquary and naturalist LBT ID: JoDalye1851 VIAF ID: 7438435 LOC ID: n86861993	B/BAP: 1775-08-09 DIED: 1851-06-07
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Scottish advocate, antiquary, and naturalist; he edited Scottish Poems of the Sixteenth Century (1801). He sued William Blackwood over the ugly caricature of himself in the “Chaldee Manuscript.”
REFERENCES TO Sir John Graham Dalyell, sixth baronet: Hogg, James, 1770-1835, “Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 89-96 Found 1: ¶ 123 Napier, Macvey, 1776-1847, Hypocrisy Unveiled (Edinburgh: Francis Pillans, 1818) Found 1: ¶ 16 Scott, John, 1784-1821, “The Mohock Magazine” in London Magazine 2 (December 1820) 666-85 Found 1: ¶ 26 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 1: 1794-1808 Found 1: ¶ 20 Chapter 5: 1817-18 Found 1: ¶ 49 Chapter 9: 1820-21 Found 1: ¶ 19