William Erskine

The son of David Erskine and his wife Jean Melvin, he was born in Edinburgh . He received a doctorate in law and went to Bombay (now Mumbai ) India in 1804 where he was Master In Equity in the Recorder's Court of Bombay . He married Maitland Mackintosh, daughter of James Mackintosh by his first wife Katherine Stuart in 1809 in Madras (now Chennai ) and they had two daughters, Mary and Frances, the latter of whom married the statistician and civil servant Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer . Erskine wrote principally on Mediaeval India , but he also completed John Malcolm 's biography of Clive Of India after Malcolm's death and translated the memoirs of Zehir-Ed-Din Muhammed Babur, Emperor Of Hindustan . He was removed from office in 1823 after being accused of defalcation and for many of his later years resided in Edinburgh . He was Provost of St Andrews , 1836 – 1869 .

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