Alexander Fraser Tytler

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (15 October 1747 - 5 January 1813) was a Scottish-born British lawyer and writer. Tytler was also an historian, and for some years was Professor of Civil History, and Greek and Roman Antiquities, in the University of Edinburgh, where he gave a series of lectures on world history which were eventually combined and published, posthumously, in a major work entitled Universal History -- From the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the 18th Century. Tytler's other titles included Senator of the College of Justice, and George Commissioner of Justiciary in Scotland. Tytler was a friend of Robert Burns, and prevailed upon him to remove lines from his poem "Tam o' Shanter" which were insulting to the legal and clerical professions. His son was Patrick Fraser Tytler, traveller and historian.