William Fraser Tytler

(1777-1853)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Tytler, William Fraser, 1777-1853 LBT ID: WiTytle1853 VIAF ID: 78654841 LOC ID: nr93040693	B/BAP: 1777-09 DIED: 1853-09-04
SOURCES: Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry (1871) 2:1429; Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Walter Scott; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
The eldest son of Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee; he was professor of history at Edinburgh University (1801-21) and Sheriff of Inverness (1818).
REFERENCES TO William Fraser Tytler: Walter Scott to Walter Scott, jun., 3 December 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter X 1819