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James Veitch - Lord Eliock

Biography


Birth: 1712
Death: 1793

Son of William Veitch of Eliock (d. 1747), a Writer to the Signet. Sometime Sheriff Depute of Peebles. Sometime MP for Dumfries. Appointed Lord of Session as Lord Eliock in 1761. He was unmarried.

According to Boswell, Eliock had at some time studied in the Saxon city of Halle.1

Alexander Carlyle wrote in his autobiography that:

"Elliock was an excellent scholar, and a man of agreeable conversation, having many curious anecdotes in his store; and to his other fund, had the good fortune to be well acquainted with Frederick the Great of Prussia, when he retired into Holland from his father's tyranny, and visited him at least once by invitation, after he came to the throne."2

Also known as

  • Lord Eliock

Life with James Boswell

Boswell visited Lord Eliock, a colleague of his father's, at Dumfries on October 6, 1762, to get recommendations to the Duke of Queensberry and General Douglas, in connection with his wish to secure a commission in the guards.

Notes

Note 1: Boswell on the Grand Tour I, 1763-1764, p. 119

Note 2: In Carlyle, Alexander & John Hill Burton. (1861) Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk: Containing Memorials of the Men and Events of His Time, p. 373 (available for reading online at Questia Online Library)


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James Veitch is mentioned in:

  • Journal of my Jaunt, Harvest 1762

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