Thomas Carlyle (17 July 1803 – 28 January 1855) was born in King's Grange near Dumfries in

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. He studied and graduated in law from the

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. In 1824 he was registered as lawyer at the Scottish bar. In October 1824 he inherited the title Baron Carlyle of Torthorwald. From 1830 on, he came in contact with the Scottish minister

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who was in process of forming the

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's New Town. He is not to be confused with the better-known man of letters

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, born a few years earlier also in

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. He too was connected to Irving, who introduced him to his wife,

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. One biographer asserts that the similarities did cause confusion: "As a ' double-goer', perplexing strangers in foreign parts as well as at home, the 'Apostle' was occasionally an innocent, inadvertent nuisance to 'our Tom'."''Carlyle Till Marriage 1795 to 1826'' by

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, 1923. Available on

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This Thomas Carlyle (lawyer) was the author of the book ''Shall Turkey Live or Die?'' (London: Thomas Bosworth, 1854). It has been mistakenly included in the Delphi ''Complete Works of Thomas Carlyle'' available on Amazon Kindle. This work is not in the authoritative ''Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's Writings and Ana'' by Isaac Watson Dyer (1928).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carlyle, Thomas Irvingites 1803 births 1855 deaths Scottish lawyers Alumni of the University of Edinburgh