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of the day. He wrote a * History of Scotland,' beginning with the 

 union of the crowns in 1603, and ending with the incorporating 

 Union of 1707. 



John Stoddart, born 1773; died 1856; knighted in 1826. 

 From the Church, for which he had his earliest training, he turned 

 to law, giving much of his time to civil or Koman law. He be- 

 came thus available for service in the dependencies where that 

 system prevailed. Early in the century he became King's Advo- 

 cate at Malta, and in 1826 returned thither as Judge of the Vice- 

 Admiralty Court. During the interval of nearly twenty years 

 between these services he became a distinguished journalist, writ- 

 ing for several years the leading political articles in the ' Times/ 



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