James Glassford (1771 – 1845) was a Scottish legal writer and traveller.

Life

He was son of

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of Dougalston by his third wife, Lady Margaret Mackenzie, sixth daughter of

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. Glassford was admitted a member of the

Faculty of Advocates The Faculty of Advocates is an independent body of lawyers who have been admitted to practise as advocates before the courts of Scotland, especially the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary. The Faculty of Advocates is a constitu ...

in 1793, and became sheriff-depute of

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. He succeeded to Dougalston on the death of his elder brother Henry in 1819. Glassford was one of the commissioners of the Royal Commission of inquiry into the state of education in Ireland, and in that capacity visited

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, and

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in 1824, and

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in 1826. He also acted as one of the commissioners appointed (1815) for inquiring into the duties and emoluments of the clerks and other officers of the courts of justice in Scotland.Reports from commissioners, Published: 1816; Original from Oxford University, Digitized: 26 Jan 2009 https://books.google.com/books?id=ai5bAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA3-PA1&lpg=RA3-PA1&dq=commissioners+for+inquiring+into+the+duties+and+emoluments+of+the+clerks+and+other+officers+of+the+courts+of+justice+in+Scotland&source=bl&ots=upNUQaSEAn&sig=Un9MgTG4-ONi5cn2DKE2LsP6g9w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=83KyULTZJIeW0QWz44DQCQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=commissioners%20for%20inquiring%20into%20the%20duties%20and%20emoluments%20of%20the%20clerks%20and%20other%20officers%20of%20the%20courts%20of%20justice%20in%20Scotland&f=false (accessed 25/11/2012). He died at Edinburgh on 28 July 1845.

Works

Glassford published: * ''Remarks on the Constitution and Procedure of the Scottish Courts of Law'', Edinburgh, 1812. * ''An Essay on the Principles of Evidence, and their application to subjects of Judicial Enquiry'', Edinburgh, 1812. * ''Exemplum Tractatus de fontibus Juris, and other Latin Pieces of Lord Bacon. Translated by James Glassford, Esq., Advocate'', Edinburgh, 1823. * ''Frondes Caducæ'', Chiswick, 1824. * ''Letter to the Right Hon. Sir John Newport, Bart., M.P., on the subject of the Fees payable in the Courts of Justice and the Stamp Duties on Law Proceedings'', London, 1824. To

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. * ''Letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Roden on the present state of Popular Education in Ireland'', London, 1829. * ''Lyrical Compositions selected from the Italian Poets'', with translations, Edinburgh, 1834. A second edition was published in 1846 after the author's death, greatly enlarged. Several of these translations were republished in London in 1886 in a volume of the ''Canterbury Poets'', entitled ''Sonnets of Europe'', edited by

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. * ''Notes of Three Tours in Ireland in 1824 and 1826'', Bristol, 1838. This work was printed for private distribution in 1831. * ''Letter by the Chancellor D'Aguesseau to a Friend on the subject of the Christian Mysteries, by James Glassford, Esq., and extracted by permission from the Scottish "Christian Herald".'' This letter was published in ''Unitarianism tried by Scripture and Experience, … with a General Introduction by a Layman'', London, 1840. * ''Miscellanea'', Edinburgh, pp. 83. This volume, printed at Edinburgh for private circulation, contained translations of

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's ''Machinæ Gesticulantes'', and

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's ''Cursus Glaciales''. Glassford also published ''Elegiæ'', no place or date (pp. 31; another edition, pp. 39).

References

* ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Glassford, James 1771 births 1845 deaths Scottish lawyers Scottish writers