Cosmo Innes
Cosmo Nelson Innes FRSE (9 September 1798, Durris-on-Deeside – 31 July 1874, Killin) was a Scottish advocate, judge, historian and antiquary. He served as Advocate-Depute, Sheriff of Elginshire, and Principal Clerk of Session.
Born to John Innes of Leuchars WS and Euphemia Russell, he was educated at Edinburgh High School, at Aberdeen and Glasgow Universities, and at Balliol College, Oxford.[1] He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1822, and was appointed Professor of Constitutional Law and History in the University of Edinburgh in 1846. He was the author of Scotland in the Middle Ages (1860), and Sketches of Early Scottish History (1861). He also edited many historical manuscripts for the Bannatyne Club and other antiquarian clubs.
Family
In 1826 Innes married Isabella, daughter of Hugh Rose of Kilravock.
His daughter Katherine married historian John Hill Burton in 1855.[2] Their children included engineer W. K. Burton and artist Mary Rose Hill Burton.
His daughter Mary married Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.[3]
References
- . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ "Innes, Cosmo Nelson (INS850CN)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ W. W. Wroth, ‘Innes, Cosmo Nelson (1798–1874)’, rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed as archived article (no longer current version)
- ^ "Mary Innes". The Peerage, A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
External links
Links to several of his works:
- Barbour, Johne (1375), Innes, Cosmo (ed.), The Brus, Aberdeen: The Spalding Club (published 1856), retrieved 17 August 2008 - in Scots
- Innes, Cosmo (1860), Scotland in the Middle Ages, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, retrieved 17 August 2008
- Innes, Cosmo (1861), Sketches of Early Scotch History and Social Progress, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, retrieved 17 August 2008
- Innes, Cosmo (1868), Ancient Laws and Customs of the Burghs of Scotland (A.D. 1124 – 1424), vol. I, Edinburgh: The Scottish Burgh Records Society, retrieved 17 August 2008
- Innes, Cosmo (1872), Lectures on Scotch Legal Antiquities, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, retrieved 17 August 2008
- Katherine Burton, Memoir of Cosmo Innes (1874)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
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