William Erskine
1773–1852
Historian and orientalist. Clerk and magistrate in Bombay; master in equity in the recorder’s court of Bombay, 1820. Accused of defalcation and removed from his offices, 1823. Provost of St Andrews, 1836–9. Resided in Edinburgh for most of his later years.
Source
DNB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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