Sir Archibald Alison , educated at the university of Edinburgh, and admitted advocate in 1814; advocate depute from 1828 to 1830; sheriff of Lanarkshire, 1835, author of `Principles of the Criminal Law of Scotland,' Edinburgh, 1832; `Practice of the Criminal Law;' `History of Europe,' 20 vols. 8vo, the first published in 1833; `Essays,' contributed to Blackwood's Magazine; `Principles of Population,' 1845; `England in 1815 and 1845, or a Sufficient and Contracted Currency;' `Life of the Duke of Marlborough,' 1847
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