Samuel M'Cormick

(1787 c.-1834)

LBT ID: SaMCormi1834	B/BAP: 1787 DIED: 1834-06-04
SOURCES: W. Innes Addison, The Snell Exhibition, from the University of Glasgow (1901) 81; William Steven, History of the High school of Edinburgh (1849) 134-35
Scottish advocate, the eldest son of Edward M'Cormick; he was educated at Edinburgh High School and Glasgow University where he obtained a Snell Exhibition to Ballilol College, Oxford and was afterwards sheriff-depute of the county of Bute. He is mocked in “The Chaldee Manuscript.”
REFERENCES TO Samuel M'Cormick: Hogg, James, 1770-1835, “Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 89-96 Found 1: ¶ 158 Macvey Napier to John Wilson, 23 October 1817 in Correspondence on Blackwood’s Magazine ([Edinburgh]: [1818]) Found 1: ¶ 2 Napier, Macvey, 1776-1847, Hypocrisy Unveiled (Edinburgh: Francis Pillans, 1818) Found 2: ¶ 13 ¶ n1 Napier, Macvey, 1776-1847, Correspondence on Blackwood’s Magazine ([Edinburgh]: [1818]) Found 1: ¶ 2