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History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815!Printed in 1845!This is the Fourth Edition.
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Sir Archibald Alison, 1st BaronetFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to searchSir Archibald Alison, BtSir Archibald AlisonBorn29 December 1792
Parsonage ofKenley, ShropshireDied23 May 1867(aged74)
Possil House, GlasgowResting placeDean Cemetery, KingdomAlmamaterEdinburgh UniversityGenreLaw
HistoryNotable worksPrinciples of the Criminal Law of Scotland(1832)
The Practice of the Criminal Law(1833)
History of Europe, 19 volumes (1833–1843)SpouseElizabeth Glencairn Tytler (m. 1825) (d. 1874)RelativesFather:Rev Archibald Alison
Brother:Professor William Alison
Uncle:Professor James Gregory
Cousin:Professor William GregorySignature

Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet,FRSE(29 December 1792– 23 May 1867) was a Scottishadvocate(attorney) andhistorian. He held several prominent legal appointments. He was the younger son of theEpiscopaliancleric and authorArchibald Alison. His elder brother was the physician and social reformerWilliam Alison.

Contents

• 1Background
• 2Writings
• 3Rector
• 4Family and death
• 5Works
• 6References
• 7Further reading
• 8External links

He was born at theparsonageatKenley, Shropshire, to the Rev.Archibald Alisonand his wife Dorothea Gregory, daughter ofJohn Gregory, and granddaughter ofJames Forbes, 17th Lord Forbes.[1]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.[2]

After studying under a private tutor, and at theUniversity of Edinburgh, he was, in 1814, admitted to theFaculty of Advocates, at which he ultimately attained some distinction, becoming in 1834Sheriff of Lanarkshire. In 1853, he received aHonorary Doctorate of Civil Lawby theUniversity of Oxford.[1]

TheUniversity College London, Legacies of British Slave-ownership, two projects based at UCL tracing the impact of slave-ownership on the formation of modern Britain:[3](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\'sLegacies of British Slave-ownershipdatabase,[4][5]and the National Archive and the records of the Slave Compensation Commission.[6]

When travelling in France in 1814 he conceived the idea of his expansiveHistory 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 theFrench Revolution.[7]Published in ten volumes between 1833 and 1843,History of Europewas revised and reprinted many times throughout the century,[7]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 style.\"[7]

Disraelisatirises the author inConingsbyas Mr. Wordy, who wrote a history to prove that Providence was on the side of the Tories.[9]Such criticism notwithstanding,History of Europeproved to be a huge commercial success.[7]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.\"[10]Alison also composed a comprehensive survey of the military campaigns of theDuke of Marlborough, as well as two standard works on thecriminal law of Scotland.

Title page of Alison\'sHistory of Europe.Sir Archibald Alison, by J. Watson Gordon.Bust of Alison, byPatric Park.The grave of Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet, Dean Cemetery.

He was electedLord Rectorsuccessively ofMarischal College,Aberdeen, and of theUniversity of Glasgow. On 25 June 1852 he was created abaronet,[11]duringLord Derby\'s administration.

In 1825, he married Elizabeth Glencairn Tytler (1799 - 1874), the daughter ofLieutenant Colonel Patrick Duff Tytler(1760 - 1849); the children from the marriage were Archibald, Frederick and Ella Frances Catherine who marriedJames Charlemagne Dormer. Both sons became distinguished British officers. The 1st Baronet\'s autobiography was published in 1883;[12]his portrait was painted byRobert Scott Lauder.

Alison died atPossil House,Glasgow, at the age of 74, and was interred inDean Cemetery,Edinburgh.[13]He enjoyed great popularity in Glasgow. His funeral was attended by a crowd of from 100,000 to 150,000 people.[14]His grave lies amid the \"Lord\'s Row\" against the western wall, and is modest in comparison to most in this section.

He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his elder son,Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet.

• History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815(1833–1843, 10 vol.)
• Principles of the Criminal Law of Scotland(1832)
• Practice of the Criminal Law of Scotland(1833)
• Principles of Population, and Their Connection with Human Happiness(1840, 2 vol.)
• England in 1815 and 1845(1845)
• Free Trade and a Fettered Currency(1847)
• The Military Life of John, Duke of Marlborough(1848)
• Essays; Political, Historical and Miscellaneous(1850, 3 vol.)
  • Vol. I.
  • Vol. II.
  • Vol. III.
• History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in 1815 to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in 1852(1852–1859, 8 vol.)
• The Currency Laws(1859)
• Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart(1861)
• Some Account of My Life and Writings: An Autobiography(1883, 2 vol.)
  • Vol. I.
  • Vol. II.

Articles

• \"The Increase of Crime,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LV (1844)
• \"Causes of Increase of Crime,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LVI (1844)
• \"Lamartine,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LVI (1844)
• \"Guizot,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LVI (1844)
• \"Homer, Dante, and Michael Angelo,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LVII (1845)
• \"British History during 18th Century,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LVII (1845)
• \"Virgil, Tasso, and Raphael,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LVII (1845)
• \"Hannibal,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LVII (1845)
• \"Marlborough. No. I,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LVIII (1845)
• \"Montesquieu,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LVIII (1845)
• \"Humboldt,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LVIII (1845)
• \"Marlborough. No. II,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LVIII (1845)
• \"Marlborough. No. III,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LIX (1846)
• \"The Roman Campagna,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LIX (1846)
• \"The Fall of Rome,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LIX (1846)
• \"Marlborough\'s Dispatches, 1708–1709\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LX (1846)
• \"The Romantic Drama,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LX (1846)
• \"Marlborough\'s Dispatches, 1710–1711\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LX (1846)
• \"Marlborough\'s Dispatches, 1711–1712\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LX (1846)
• \"The British Theatre, Part I,\"The Dublin University Magazine,Vol. XLVIII (1846)
• \"The British Theatre, Part II,\"The Dublin University Magazine,Vol. XLVIII (1846)
• \"Eugene, Marlborough, Frederick, Napoleon, and Wellington,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXI (1847)
• \"Lessons from the Famine,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXI (1847)
• \"M. De Tocqueville,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXI (1847)
• \"Thirty Years of Liberal Legislation,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXIII (1848)
• \"Fall of the Throne of the Barricades,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXIII (1848)
• \"The Revolution in Europe,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXIII (1848)
• \"How to Disarm the Chartists,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXIII (1848)
• \"The Navigation Laws,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXIV (1848)
• \"Continental Revolutions—Irish Rebellion—English Distress,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXIV (1848)
• \"The Year of Revolutions,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXV (1849)
• \"Free Trade at its Zenith,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXVI (1849)
• \"The Year of Reaction,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXVII (1850)
• \"The Ministerial Measures,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXVII (1850)
• \"Free-trade Finance,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXVII (1850)
• \"Chateaubriand\'s Memoirs,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXVIII (1850)
• \"Ledru Rollin on England,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXVIII (1850)
• \"Foreign Affairs,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXVIII (1850)
• \"Ancient and Modern Eloquence,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXVIII (1850)
• \"The Currency Extension Act of Nature,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXIX (1851)
• \"Biography,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXIX (1851)
• \"The Dangers of the Country—External,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXIX (1851)
• \"The Dangers of the Country—Our Internal Dangers,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXIX (1851)
• \"The Dinner to Lord Stanley,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXIX (1851)
• \"Æschylus, Shakespeare and Schiller,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXIX (1851)
• \"The Census and Free Trade,\"Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine,Vol. LXX (1851)