Robert Carruthers (1799–1878) was a Scottish journalist and miscellaneous writer. He was born in

Dumfriesshire Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries or Shire of Dumfries (''Siorrachd Dhùn Phris'' in Gaelic) is a historic county and registration county in southern Scotland. The Dumfries lieutenancy area covers a similar area to the historic county. I ...

and was for a time a teacher in

Huntingdon Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district in Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by King John in 1205. It was the county town of the historic county of Huntingdonshire. Oliver Cromwell was born there ...

. He wrote a ''History of Huntingdon'' in 1824. In 1828 he became editor of the ''

Inverness Courier The Inverness Courier is a local, bi-weekly newspaper, published each Tuesday and Friday in Inverness, Highland, Scotland. It reports on issues in Inverness and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. It is the longest, continually running local n ...

'', in which role he continued for many years. He edited

Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, ...

'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.Cust, Lionel, Munro, Alexander, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 39, (1894).

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