NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Carlyle, Alexander, 1722-1805 NRA: Carlyle Alexander (1722-1805) Church of Scotland minister and memorialist DNB: Carlyle, Alexander (1722-1805), Church of Scotland minister and memorialist LBT ID: AlCarly1805 VIAF ID: 107031944 LOC ID: n85067405 | B/BAP: 1722-01-26 DIED: 1805-01-25 |
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
Educated at Edinburgh University, Glasgow, and Leiden, he was Minister of Inveresk
(1748-1805); his Autobiography (1860) contains pen portraits of many
famous contemporaries. | |