George Ritchie Kinloch
George Ritchie Kinloch (c. 1796 – 19 April 1877) was a Scottish lawyer, philanthropist and antiquarian best known today for publishing a collection of ballads.
Life
Kinloch was probably born in
Literary career
Kinloch's assistance in compiling the supplementary volumes of Jamieson's dictionary (1825) was acknowledged by the author. In 1827 he published his Ancient Scottish Ballads, Recovered from tradition, listed by Sir Walter Scott among the "more important" of later collections of ballads.[3] A Ballad Book published the same year was republished in 1885. He also edited in 1830 several seventeenth-century Scottish texts for the Maitland Club and in 1837 one for the Abbotsford Club. He published a Reliquiæ Antiquæ Scoticæ in 1848.
References
- ^ 1799 Jamaica Almanac
- ^ Epitaphs & Inscriptions from Burial Grounds & Old Buildings in the North-east of Scotland, Andrew Jervise, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1875, p. 254
- ^ Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Walter Scott, ed. T. F. Henderson, Edinburgh: Wm. Blackwood and Sons, 1902, p. xxi
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Kinloch, George Ritchie". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.