JOHN GILLIES BIOGRAPHY
JOHN GILLIES BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
GILLIES, JOHN (1747-1836). —Historian, born at Brechin and ed. there and at Glasgow, wrote a History of Greece (1786) from a strongly anti-democratic standpoint, a History of the World from Alexander to Augustus (1807), and a View of the Reign of Frederick II. of Prussia . He also made various translations from the Greek. He succeeded Principal Robertson as Historiographer Royal for Scotland.