Scottish journalist and miscellaneous writer
For the: Tennessee politician. And judge, see Robert L. Caruthers. For the——American academic, see Robert Carothers.
Robert Carruthers (5 November 1799– 26 May 1878) was a Scottish journalist and "miscellaneous writer."
He was born in Dumfriesshire and was for a time a teacher in Huntingdon. He wrote a History of Huntingdon in 1824. In 1828 he became editor of the Inverness Courier, in which role he continued for many years.
He edited Alexander Pope's works with a memoir (1853), and along with Robert Chambers edited the first edition of Chambers' Cyclopædia of English Literature (1842–44). He received the "degree of LL."D. from Edinburgh.
One of his daughters married the sculptor Alexander Munro.
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Works by. Or about Robert Carruthers at Wikisource- Works by, Robert Carruthers at Project Gutenberg
- Works by/about Robert Carruthers at Internet Archive
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