William Tytler of Woodhouselee, WS

Biographical Summary

Tytler of Woodhouselee, William. 12/10/1711-12/09/1792. Ref: 1536. Male.

• Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
• Place of Death: Woodhouselee, Midlothian.
• Profession: Writer to the Signet, Historian, Musician, Landowner.
• Appointments Held: WS 1742; Legal practice in Edinburgh; Clerk to the Signet.
• Schools and Tutors: High School, Edinburgh.
• Training: Apprentice to William Forbes.
• Undergraduate Studies: Edinburgh University.
• Publications: "An Inquiry, Historical and Critical, into the Evidence produced by the Earls of Murray and Morton against Mary Queen of Scots" 1760, "The Poetical Remains of James I" 1783.
• Marital Status: Married (1745) Anne Craig d.1783.
• Family: Son Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee FRSE 1747-1813, Patrick Tytler, FRSE.
• Mother: Jane Leslie, Aberdeen.
• Father: Alexander Tytler Writer, Edinburgh.
• Other Family: Grandfather of William Fraser Tytler FRSE 1777-1853, James Tytler FRSE 1780-1862 and Patrick Fraser Tytler FRSE 1791-1849.
• References: DNB 57, 1899, 455-6; Trans Roy Soc Edinb, IV Appendix 17-34, (20/6/1796); Shapin 463; S Devlin-Thorp Scotland's Cultural Heritage, 2, 1981, 85; Register of The Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet 1983, 325.
• Memberships: FSA(Scot), Musical Society of Edinburgh, Select Society.
• Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
• Proposers: Founder Member.
• Fellow Type: OF.

SOURCE: Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Biographical index of former fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-2002: Biographical Index. II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. page 950

Other References

• A history of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet; 1890; Page 206