William Guthrie

(1708 c.-1770)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Guthrie, William, 1708-1770 DNB: Guthrie, William (1708?-1770), historian and political journalist LBT ID: WiGuthr1770 VIAF ID: 100194070 LOC ID: n50017530	B/BAP: 1708 DIED: 1770-03-09
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Scottish-born political writer and historian; author, among other titles, of General History of the World, 12 vols (1764-67), General History of Scotland, 10 vols (1767), and Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar (1770).
REFERENCES TO William Guthrie: Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 9 December 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1: ¶ 45 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. I. 1800