XXIV. Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Honourable 

 Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee. By 

 the Rev. Archibald Alison, LL. B. F. R. S. Lond. 

 &Ed. 



(Read June 3. 1816, and January 6. 1817. ) 



.lexander Tytler was born at Edinburgh, 15th October 

 1747. He was the eldest son of our late venerable associate 

 William Tytler, Esq. of Woodhouselee, in the county of 

 Mid-Lothian, and of Anne Craig, daughter of James Craig, 

 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 

 Tytler 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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