Robert Carruthers
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Robert Carruthers (5 November 1799– 26 May 1878) was a Scottish journalist and miscellaneous writer.
He was born in Dumfriesshire and was for a time a teacher in Huntingdon. He wrote a History of Huntingdon in 1824. In 1828 he became editor of the Inverness Courier, in which role he continued for many years.
He edited Alexander Pope's works with a memoir (1853), and along with Robert Chambers edited the first edition of Chambers' Cyclopædia of English Literature (1842–44). He received the degree of LL.D. from Edinburgh.[1]
One of his daughters married the sculptor Alexander Munro.[2]
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Works by or about Robert Carruthers at Wikisource- Works by Robert Carruthers at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Robert Carruthers at the Internet Archive
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