John Hill Burton [SEP] date of birth
John Hill Burton
John Hill Burton FRSE (22 August 1809 – 10 August 1881) was a Scottish advocate, historian and economist. The author of "Life and Correspondence of David Hume", he was secretary of the Scottish Prison Board (1854–77), and Historiographer Royal (1867–1881).
Life.
Burton was born in Aberdeen on 22 August 1809, the son of William Kinninmont Burton ("d". 1819), a lieutenant in the army, and Elizabeth ("d". 1848)
1763
- John Gillies LLD: 15 Jun 1793
- George Brodie: 5 Mar 1836
- John Hill Burton LLD: 29 Aug 1867
- William Forbes Skene DCL LLD: 14 Nov 1881
- David Masson LLD: 3 Mar 1893
- Peter Hume Brown: 4 May 1908
- Sir Robert Sangster Rait CBE MA: 11 Jan 1919
- Robert Kerr Hannay LLD FRSE: 14 July 1930
- Henry William Meikle MA DLitt: 23 Sep 1940
- J. D. Mackie OBE MC LLD: