John Gillies

(1747-1836)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gillies, John, 1747-1836 NRA: Gillies John (1747-1836) Historian DNB: Gillies, John (1747-1836), ancient historian and classical scholar LBT ID: JoGilli1836 VIAF ID: 29583533 LOC ID: nr90019370	B/BAP: 1747-01-18 DIED: 1836-02-15
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Scottish historian and classical scholar; author of The History of Ancient Greece (1786) and The History of the World, from the Reign of Alexander to that of Augustus (1807).
REFERENCES TO John Gillies: William Godwin to Thomas Holcroft, [May 1800] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to John May, 15 September 1827 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 6 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1: ¶ 34 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XII Found 1: ¶ 60 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXI. 1827-1828 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. III. 1788-1792 Found 1: ¶ 12 Ch. II. 1800 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter I. Found 2: ¶ 34 ¶ 36 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 4: 1815-17 Found 1: ¶ 22