APPENDIX, (i) 



I. Account of the Life of Lord Abercrombt. By Henrv 

 Mjckenzie, Efq; F. R. S. Edin. 



[Read by the Author, Feb. 15. 1796.] 



'HE life of which I am about to give fome account to this 

 Society cannot be called a literary one ; of literary lives 

 only it is perhaps the proper bulinefs of the Royal Society to 

 record the particulars ; but it has been in the pra6lice of al- 

 lowing a wider range to this cuflomary notice of its deceafed 

 Members. Of the lives of fuch as were eminent in ftation or 

 in ufefulnefs, in abilities or in virtue, it has been accuflomed 

 to hear a narrative, which, though not important to learning, 

 is interefting to humanity. Under this title, it will indulge 

 me with a fhort account of the life of Lord Abercromby. 



He was the youngeft fon of George Abercromby of 

 Tullibody, a gentleman of a relpe liable family and confider- 

 able fortune in Stirlingfhire, and of Anne Dundas, daughter 

 of Mr Dundas of Manor. He was born on the 15th day of 

 0(5lober 1745. His father ftill lives at the very advanced age 

 of 91, and has had the fingular good fortune to fee two of his 

 elder fons, who were both bred foldiers, appointed Commanders 

 in Chief of the Britifli forces, one in the Weft and the other 

 in the Eaft Indies, the moft important ftations with which 

 their country could entruft them. His age indeed has, within 



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