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Tytler of Woodhouselee, William (1711-93)
Son of a Writer to the Signet and himself a W.S. The Laird of Woodhouselee, he helped Johnson with the first volumes of the Museum, and afterwards assisted Burns to collect the verses for later volumes. Burns sent him a copy of the Miers silhouette portrait of himself, with his Jacobite verses, beginning, 'Reverend defender of beauteous Stuart'. Besides being a Jacobite, Tytler was an enthusiastic supporter of Scottish music, and also encouraged George Thomson to begin his collection. A historian and antiquary, he contributed papers to The Antiquarian Transactions, but is best known for his An Historical and Critical Enquiry into the evidence... against Mary Queen of Scots (1760), a defence of the Queen against the attacks of Tytler's contemporaries, Robertson and Hume. He also edited The Poetical Remains of James I Of Scotland, and was thus largely responsible for bringing to eighteenth-century notice the merits of The King's Quair. His son, Alexander Fraser Tytler, was also an admirer of Burns.
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