Cosmo Innes

Cosmo Nelson Innes (9 September 1798, Durris-on-Deeside - 31 July 1874, Killin) was a Scottish historian and antiquary.

Innes 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 MSS. for the Bannatyne Club and other antiquarian clubs.

His daughter Mary married Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.

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Links to several of his works:

• Barbour, Johne (1375), Innes, Cosmo, ed., The Brus, Aberdeen: The Spalding Club, 1856, http://books.google.com/?id=d6UOAAAAYAAJ, retrieved 2008-08-17  - in Scots
• Innes, Cosmo (1860), Scotland in the Middle Ages, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, http://books.google.com/?id=AV0LAAAAYAAJ, retrieved 2008-08-17 
• Innes, Cosmo (1861), Sketches of Early Scotch History and Social Progress, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, http://books.google.com/?id=SlsLAAAAYAAJ, retrieved 2008-08-17 
• Innes, Cosmo (1868), Ancient Laws and Customs of the Burghs of Scotland (A.D. 1124 – 1424), I, Edinburgh: The Scottish Burgh Records Society, http://books.google.com/?id=CUpkgY6ivDoC, retrieved 2008-08-17 
• Innes, Cosmo (1872), Lectures on Scotch Legal Antiquities, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, http://books.google.com/?id=HF4LAAAAYAAJ, retrieved 2008-08-17 

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; New York, E. P. Dutton.