Robert Scott Moncrieff (1 December 1793 – 18 June 1869) was a

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advocate, amateur

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and

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Life

He was born in

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near Fossoway on 1 December 1793. He trained in law at the

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. Most of his cartoons are of his legal peers and are clearly drawn during court proceedings. Many of his illustrations from the years 1816 to 1820 were included in the 1871 publication ''The Scottish Bar Fifty Years Ago: Sketches of Scott and His Contemporaries''. From around 1830 he served as Chamberlain to the

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. He died in

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on 18 June 1869. He is buried with other members of the Scott Moncrieff family at the south end of the sealed south-west section of

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commonly called the Covenanter's Prison.

Family

He was married to Susan Pringle (1796–1840) around 1820. They had 11 children several of whom rose to some fame. Susan died soon after the birth of the 11th child. Few of the children lived long lives. *Elizabeth (1821–1848) died in

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*Susan (1824–1852) died in Edinburgh, buried in

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*Alexander Pringle Scott Moncrieff (1827–1865) Major in the Indian Army, died in

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. Married Elizabeth Coventry daughter of Rev George Coventry and they were parents to Sir George Scott-Moncrieff * Sir Colin Campbell Scott Moncrieff (1836–1916), Director of Irrigation in Egypt and Under Secretary of State for Scotland, died in Chelsea, London *Rev John Edward Scott Moncrieff (1839–1860), died in Batavia *Charles the youngest son (1840–1859) *Joanna Scott-Moncrieff about(1834-1920) married John Archibald Ballard. Mother of 6 children. * , (fl. 1862), painted an album of watercolours, which she dedicated to her father He married his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Hamilton (1811–1885), considerably his junior, around 1845. Their infant daughter, Jane Anne, died in 1852.

Gallery

File:David Douglas, Lord Reston from "The Scottish Bar Fifty Years Ago".PNG File:Andrew Skene, Advocate from "The Scottish Bar Fifty Years Ago".PNG File:James Allan Maconochie, Advocate from "The Scottish Bar Fifty Years Ago".PNG File:John Clerk, Lord Eldin from "The Scottish Bar Fifty Years Ago" (3).PNG File:Robert Forsyth, Advocate from "The Scottish Bar Fifty Years Ago".PNG

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Moncrieff, Robert Scott 1793 births 1869 deaths 19th-century Scottish people Members of the Faculty of Advocates Scottish illustrators Scottish caricaturists Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard