Robert Carruthers

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Robert Carruthers (1799 - 1878), journalist and miscellaneous writer, born in Dumfriesshire, was for a time a teacher in Huntingdon, and wrote a History of Huntingdon (1824). In 1828 he became editor of the Inverness Courier, which he conducted with great ability. He edited Alexander Pope's works with a memoir (1853), and along with Robert Chambers edited the first edition of Chambers's Cyclopedia of English Literature (1842-44). He received the degree of LL.D. from Edinbugh This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.