Robert Anderson
Author
1750 – 1830
Who was Robert Anderson?
Robert Anderson was a Scottish author and critic.
He was born at Carnwath, Lanarkshire. He studied first divinity and then medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and subsequently, after some experience as a surgeon, took his M.D. at the University of St Andrews in 1778. He began to practise as a physician at Alnwick in Northumberland, but he became financially independent by his marriage with the daughter of John Gray, and abandoned his profession for a literary life in Edinburgh.
For several years his attention was occupied with his edition of The Works of the British Poets, with Prefaces Biographical and Critical. His other publications were:
The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D., with Memoirs of his Life and Writings
Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., with Critical Observations on his Works
The Works of John Moore, M.D., with Memoirs of his Life and Writings
The Grave and other Poems, by Robert Blair; to which are prefixed some Account of his Life and Observations on his Writings.
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- Born
- Jan 7, 1750
Carnwath - Education
- University of Edinburgh
- Died
- Feb 20, 1830
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on July 23, 2013
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