James Anderson (lawyer)

James Anderson, Scottish antiquary and historian, was born at Edinburgh. His father was Patrick Anderson of Walston, a church minister, who was for some time imprisoned on the Bass Rock on the Firth of Forth in Haddingtonshire. ^{James Anderson, Scottish lawyer and historian (d. 1728)}

5 August 1662

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