Modern English biography

(1865) 3–5; _I.L.N. xlvi_ 97 (1865). LORIMER, JAMES (son of James Lorimer, manager of Earl of Kinnoul’s estates). _b._ Aberdalgie, Perthshire 4 Nov. 1818; ed. at high school Perth and the univs. of Edinb., Berlin and Bonn and academy of Geneva; member of Faculty of advocates 1845; acted as sheriff substitute of Midlothian; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; professor of public law in univ. of Edinb. 15 May 1865 to death, where he introduced graduation in law; a founder of The institute of international law 1873; author of The universities of Scotland, past, present and possible 1854; A handbook of the law of Scotland 1859, 5 ed. 1885; Constitutionalism of the future, or parliament the mirror of the nation 1865, 2 ed. 1867; The institutes of law, a treatise of jurisprudence as determined by nature 1872, 2 ed. 1880; The institutes of the law of nations 2 vols. 1883–4, and of 19 lectures and 14 pamphlets. _d._ 1 Bruntsfield crescent, Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1890, portrait by his son J. H. Lorimer, R.S.A. in senate hall of univ. of Edinb. _James Lorimer’s Studies national and international_ (1890); _Juridical Review_, _April 1890 pp._ 113–21, _portrait_. LORIMER, JOHN GORDON (2 son of rev. Robert Lorimer 1765–1848, minister of Haddington). _b._ Haddington; minister of Torryburn 1829; minister of St. David’s or Ram’s Horn parish, Glasgow 1832 to 1843; minister of St. David’s Free ch. Glasgow 1843 to death; D.D. of coll. of New Jersey 27 June 1849; author of The past and present condition of religion and morality in the United States 1833; The eldership of the church of Scotland 1841; Historical sketch of the protestant church of France 1841; The deaconship 1842; Sermons on Sabbath profanation 184-. _d._ Glasgow 9 Oct. 1868. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 349–58. LORIMER, PETER (eld. son of John Lorimer, builder). _b._ Edinburgh 1812; bursar in univ. of Edinb. 1827; minister of presbyterian ch. River terrace, London 1836–44; professor of theology in English presbyterian college, London 1844–78, principal 1878 to death; D.D. New Jersey, June 1857; author of Precursors of Knox, or memoirs of Patrick Hamilton, Alexander Alane or Alesius, and Sir David Lindsay of the Mount Edinburgh 1857; The evidential value of the early epistles of St. Paul viewed as historical documents 1874, 3 ed. 1880; The evidence to Christianity arising from its adaptation to all the deeper wants of the human heart 1876; John Knox and the church of England