Andrew Crichton
BiographyAndrew Crichton (1790–1855) was a Scottish biographer and historian. The youngest son of a small landed proprietor, he was born in the parish of Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire, December 1790, and educated at Dumfries Academy and at the university of Edinburgh.
After becoming a licensed preacher he was for some time engaged in teaching in Edinburgh and North Berwick. In 1823 he published his first work, The Life of the Rev. John Blackadder, which was followed by The Life of Colonel J. Blackadder in 1824, and Memoirs of the Rev. Thomas Scott in 1825. He worked for and contributed extensively to periodicals, among others the Edinburgh Evening Post, the North Briton, the Edinburgh Advertiser, the Westminster Review, Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, the Dublin University Magazine, Fraser’s Magazine, the Church Review, and the Church of Scotland Magazine and Review. In 1837 the university of St. Andrews conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Laws. He was a member of the presbytery of Edinburgh, being ruling elder of the congregation of Trinity College Church, and sat in the general assembly of the Church of Scotland as elder for the burgh of Cullen for three years previous to his decease. He married first, in July 1835, Isabella Calvert, daughter of James Calvert, LL.D. of Montrose—she died in November 1837—and secondly, December 1844, Jane, daughter of the Rev. John Duguid, minister of Erie and Kendall. He was a good friend of Leitch Ritchie, who was his neighbour at St. Bernards Cresecent.
Bibliography (incomplete)
The Life of the Rev. John Blackadder (1823)
The Life and Diary of Lieut. Col. John Blackader (1824)
Memoirs of the Rev. Thomas Scott (1825)
Converts from Infidelity (1827)