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Tytler, Patrick Fraser
(b. Edinburgh, August 30th, 1791; d. Great Malvern, Worcestershire, December 24th, 1849). “Life of the Admirable Crichton” (1819); “Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton” (1823); “The Scottish Worthies” (1832); “Sir Walter Raleigh” (1833); and “King Henry VIII and his Contemporaries” (1837); besides his “History of Scotland” (1828–1843); “England under the Reigns of Edward VI. and Mary” (1839), “Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the Northern Coasts of America.” See Burgon’s “Memoir of P. F. T.” (1859), and the sketch prefixed by Small to the last edition of the “History of Scotland.”
