John Jeffrey

(1775-1848)

LBT ID: JoJeffr1850	B/BAP: 1775-03-25 DIED: 1848-07-03
SOURCES: Benjamin William Crombie, Modern Athenians: a Series of Original Portraits of Memorable Citizens (1882) 23
The younger brother of Francis Jeffrey; having made his fortune as a merchant in New York he retired to Edinburgh about 1810.
REFERENCES TO John Jeffrey: Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 2 March 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hogg, James, 1770-1835, “Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 89-96 Found 1: ¶ 173 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VIII 1810