Scotch historian, born in Glasgow, on the 21st of December 1790. He graduated at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and in 1812 was admitted to the Scottish bar. He subsequently removed to the south of England. In 1827 he published the first two volumes of a history of the United States, and in 1836 a new edition in four volumes, bringing the history down to the year 1776. The work was highly praised by Prescott and other historians, but was not popular in England, because of its thoroughly American spirit. A Philadelphia edition was published in 1845. He died in London, England, on the 3rd of July 1842.
