Robert Cathcart of Drum

(1773-1812)

LBT ID: RoCathc1812	B/BAP: 1773-06-22 DIED: 1812-11-18
SOURCES: A History of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet (1890) 36; James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott
Son of Robert Cathcart of Genoch; he was Writer to the Signet (1796) and a business partner of Archibald Constable. In 1797 he married Anne, sister of the publisher Robert Cadell.
REFERENCES TO Robert Cathcart of Drum: 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 Found 1: ¶ 4