"1st Baronet" Sir Archibald Alison Hand Written Letter Dated 1853 For Sale

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"1st Baronet" Sir Archibald Alison Hand Written Letter Dated 1853:
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Up for sale the "1st Baronet" Sir Archibald Alison Hand Written Letter Dated 1853. 

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Sir

Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet, FRSE (29

December 1792 – 23 May 1867) was an England-born Scottish advocate (attorney) and historian. He held several prominent legal appointments. He

was the younger son of the Episcopalian cleric

and author Archibald Alison. His

elder brother was the physician and social reformer William Alison. He was born at the parsonage at Kenley, Shropshire, to the

Rev. Archibald Alison and

his wife Dorothea Gregory, daughter of John Gregory, and

granddaughter of James Forbes, 17th Lord

Forbes. In 1800 his parents moved the family back to Edinburgh,

as his father thought that he could give his sons a better education and more

independent careers in Scotland.

After studying under a private tutor, and at the University of Edinburgh,

he was, in 1814, admitted to the Faculty of Advocates, at

which he ultimately attained some distinction, becoming in 1834 Sheriff of Lanarkshire. In

1853, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law by

the University of Oxford.

The University College London,

Legacies of British Slave-ownership, two projects based at UCL tracing the

impact of slave-ownership on the formation of modern Britain: (the ESRC-funded Legacies of British

Slave-ownership project, now complete, and the ESRC and AHRC-funded Structure

and significance of British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763–1833, running from

2013-2015), highlight that, Sir Archibald Alison 1st Bart.,

benefited from the compensation paid out following the abolition of slavery in

1833. According to the record, he benefited from a payment of £4,081,18s,10d,

an approximate £346,000 in 2015, made by the government of United Kingdom and

Great Britain as recorded by the Slave Compensation Commission and the records

held at the National Archives in London. The record containing the facts

discovered can be found at the UCL's Legacies of the National Archive and the

records of the Slave Compensation Commission. When travelling in France in 1814

he conceived the idea of his expansive History of Europe from the

commencement of the French revolution to the restoration of the Bourbons.

This multi-volume set is usually regarded as Alison's chief historical work and

is considered to be the first scholarly English-language study of the French Revolution. Published in ten volumes between 1833 and

1843, History of Europe was revised and reprinted many times

throughout the century, including numerous foreign language editions.[8] The work is one of vast industry,

"contain[ing] a wealth of information communicated in a vigorous though

wordy author in Coningsby as Mr.

Wordy, who wrote a history to prove that Providence was on the side of the

Tories. Such criticism notwithstanding, History of Europe proved

to be a huge commercial success. By 1848 100,000 copies had been sold in

the United States. It was translated into French, German, and even Arabic, in

which language 2,000 copies were published "under the auspices of the

Pasha of Egypt." Alison also composed a comprehensive survey of the

military campaigns of the Duke of

Marlborough, as well as two standard works on the criminal law of Scotland. 

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