Thomas Somerville

(1741-1830)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Somerville, Thomas, 1741-1830 NRA: Somerville Thomas (1741-1830) Historian DNB: Somerville, Thomas (1741-1830), Church of Scotland minister and historian LBT ID: ThSomer1830 VIAF ID: 13119324 LOC ID: no90010299	B/BAP: 1741-02-15 DIED: 1830-05-16
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Minister of Jedburgh; he was educated at Edinburgh University and published The History of Great Britain during the Reign of Queen Anne (1798) and other works. He was a friend of Sir Walter Scott.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Somerville: William Taylor of Norwich to Walter Scott, 14 December 1796 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Walter Scott to William Laidlaw, 20 December 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ n2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VIII 1796-97 Found 2: ¶ 9 ¶ n1 Chapter X 1819 Found 1: ¶ n2 Chapter X 1826 Found 3: ¶ n1 ¶ 68 ¶ n1