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[Rev. Dr George Gleig (bishop of Brechin, 1808) was a frequent contributor to the "Monthly Review", "Gentleman's Magazine", etc. He edited the last six volumes of the third edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica", completed 1797. See "Dictionary of National Biography".
Dr Robert Graham of Boquhapple, physician in Stirling, who assumed the name of Moir on succeeding to the estate of Leckie, is mentioned in Woodhouselee's "Memoirs of Kames" as an intimate friend of Kames and 'a gentleman of taste and erudition, and of great scientific knowledge, who frequently visited him in the country'. (ii, 140)] |