Scottish historian, born in Haddingtonshire on the 17th of December 1850, and educated at Edinburgh University, where he afterwards became professor of ancient history. In 1908 he was appointed Historiographer Royal for Scotland, and from 1913 to 1914 Ford lecturer at Oxford. Besides his various histories, he is the author of a Life of John Knox (1895) and is mentioned as an authority in the bibliography of John Knox. He died at Edinburgh on the 30th of November 1918; his unfinished Life of Goethe was completed by Lord Haldane and published in 1920.
