Robert Sym

(1752-1845)

LBT ID: RoSym1845	B/BAP: 1752 DIED: 1845-04-02
SOURCES: Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Walter Scott; Benjamin William Crombie, Modern Athenians: a series of original portraits of memorable citizens (1882)
Scottish lawyer and uncle of John Wilson; he was the original of the Timothy Tickler character in Blackwood's Magazine.
REFERENCES TO Robert Sym: Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 17 January 1812 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Napier, Macvey, 1776-1847, Hypocrisy Unveiled (Edinburgh: Francis Pillans, 1818) Found 2: ¶ 13 ¶ n1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Notices to Correspondents” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (March 1818) np Verse 4: p. p. p. p. Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Hazlitt Cross-questioned” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 3 (August 1818) 550-52 Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XII 1811-12 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 2: ¶ 50 ¶ 56