XXIV. Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Honourable 
ALEXANDER Fraser Tyrier, Lord Woodhouselee. By 
the Rev. Axcurpatp Atison, LL. B. F. R. S. Lonp.. 
& Ep. 
(Read June 3. 1816, and January 6. 18177. ) 
Rcrosari TyrLer was born at Edinburgh, 15th October 
1747. He was the eldest son of our late venerable associate 
Witiram Tyrier, Esq. of Woodhouselee, in the county of 
Mid-Lothian, and of Anne Crarc, daughter of Jamzs Craic, 
Esq. of Costerton, in the same county. ? 
If the most important education is that which is received 
beneath the paternal roof,—if it is there that the principles and 
tastes of future life are chiefly formed, the education of Mr 
Tyrer began under fortunate auspices. His father was a 
man of high honour, of generous affections, of cultivated taste, 
and of distinguished eminence in his profession. His mother 
was a woman of elegant manners, of great gentleness and ten- 
derness of disposition, and of still greater firmness of moral 
and religious principle. And the society in which they lived 
was nearly that of all those who then were distinguished in 
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