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Robert Carruthers (5 November 1799– 26 May 1878) was a Scottish journalist and miscellaneous writer. He was born in
Dumfriesshire Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries or Shire of Dumfries () is a Counties of Scotland, historic county and registration county in southern Scotland. The Dumfries lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area covers a similar area to the hi ...
and was for a time a teacher in
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. He wrote a ''History of Huntingdon'' in 1824. In 1828 he became editor of the '' Inverness Courier'', in which role he continued for many years. He edited
Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early ...
's works with a memoir (1853), and along with Robert Chambers edited the first edition of '' Chambers' Cyclopædia of English Literature'' (1842–44). He received the degree of LL.D. from Edinburgh. One of his daughters married the sculptor Alexander Munro.Cust, Lionel, Munro, Alexander, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 39, (1894).


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