A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Carruthers, Robert

by John William Cousin

Carruthers, Robert (1799-1878).—Journalist and miscellaneous writer, b. in Dumfriesshire, was for a time a teacher in Huntingdon, and wrote a History of Huntingdon (1824). In 1828 he became ed. of the Inverness Courier, which he conducted with great ability. He ed. Pope's works with a memoir (1853), and along with Robert Chambers (q.v.) ed. the first ed. of Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature (1842-44). He received the degree of LL.D. from Edin.