Irving, David
(male)
12/05/1778 - 05/10/1860
Scottish
University of Edinburgh
Biographer, classicist; librarian of Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh; wrote The Elements of English Composition (1801), The Lives of the Scottish Poets (1804), History of Scottish Poetry (1861), other works. See Boase II: 21-2; ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)