James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
bap. 1714 d. 1799
Scottish judge and philosopher. Educated by private tutors and at King’s College, Aberdeen, and in Groningen; passed the Scottish civil law examination and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates, 1837. Curator of the Advocates’ Library, 1751–6; sheriff of Kincardineshire, 1860; raised to the bench as an ordinary lord of session, 1867. Important figure in the Scottish enlightenment and author of Of the origin and progress of language (1773–92) and Antient metaphysics (1779–99).
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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