John Colin Dunlop

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(1785–1842) was a Scottish advocate and

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Life

He was born near Glasgow on 30 December 1785 the son of John Dunlop, of Rosebank,

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, who was

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, 1794–1796. John Colin was studious and reclusive. He was admitted to the

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in 1807 in 1807, but was only nominally at the

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. He became sheriff-depute of Renfrewshire in 1816 and served this role until his death. He worked with the firm of Dunlop Rowand & Co at 63 St Vincent Street in central Glasgow. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1833 his proposers being

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and Sir

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. In later life he lived at 12 India Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town. He died in

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on 26 January 1842.

Works

Dunlop wrote:
''History of Fiction''
(Edinburgh, 1814, other editions 1816 and 1845). Another edition (1888) was edited by Henry Wilson; and there was a German translation as ''John Dunlop's Geschichte der Prosadichtungen'' (1851), by Felix Liebrecht. *''History of Roman Literature, from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age'', first volumes 1823, to 1828. *''Memoirs of Spain during the Reigns of Philip IV. and Charles II.'' (1834). This filled the gap between existing histories, supplementing Robert Watson and William Thomson's ''Philip II and III'', and William Coxe's ''Memoirs of the Kings of Spain of the House of Bourbon''. *Translations from the ''

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'' (1838), accused of plagiarism in ''

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'' when it appeared.

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Table of contents
of the German translation (Leipzig 1851, enlarged ed.) of Dunlop's ''History of Fiction'' ;Attribution * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dunlop, John Colin 1785 births 1842 deaths 19th-century Scottish historians Lawyers from Glasgow Cambuslang Members of the Faculty of Advocates Scottish sheriffs 19th-century Scottish translators 19th-century Scottish judges