ROBERT CARRUTHERS BIOGRAPHY
ROBERT CARRUTHERS BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
CARRUTHERS, ROBERT (1799-1878). —Journalist and miscellaneous writer, born 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 Cyclopedia of English Literature (1842-44). He received the degree of LL.D. from Edin.