James Anderson (lawyer)

For other people with the same name, see James Anderson (disambiguation).

James Anderson (5 August 1662 – 3 April 1728), 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.[1]

  1. ^ M'Crie, Thomas, D.D. the younger (1847). The Bass rock: Its civil and ecclesiastic history. Edinburgh: J. Greig & Son. p. 270. Retrieved 11 February 2019.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)