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Jeffrey, Francis, Lord

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A celebrated critic and lawyer, born in Edinburgh; trained for and called to the bar in 1794; with a fine cultivated literary taste devoted himself principally to literary criticism, and being a Whig in politics was associated with the originators of the Edinburgh Review (q. v .), and became its first editor in 1802, which he continued to be till 1829, contributing to its pages all along articles of great brilliancy; he was distinguished also at the bar in several famous trials; became Lord Advocate of Scotland in 1830, M.P. for Edinburgh in 1832, and finally, in 1834, one of the judges in the Court of Session; lie was a dark-eyed, nimble little man, of alert intelligence and quick in all his movements; died at Craigcrook, near Edinburgh (1773-1850).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Jeffrey, Francis, Lord'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​j/jeffrey-francis-lord.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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