Word: buccleuch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inclusion of biography was demanded by the partners' newest and biggest patron, the Duke of Buccleuch. This is contrary to the whole tradition of encyclopedias of the "arts and sciences." Smellie refused to do it, perhaps partly because he felt the duke was anxious to get his own name into print. The proprietors' choice then fell upon one James Tytler, 29, whom a local poet has described as "an obscure, tippling, but extraordinary body" who "drudges about Edinburgh as a common printer with leaky shoes and a skylighted...
...biography consists of little more than a professor's résumé: son of a collector of customs; student at Oxford; a popular lecturer at Edinburgh University; tutor to the young Duke of Buccleuch; full professor of logic and then of moral philosophy at Glasgow; and author in 1759 of a philosophical treatise, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. A bachelor, Smith relied on his mother and a maiden cousin to keep house; if any love affairs ever distracted him from his studies, they have gone unrecorded. "I am a beau in nothing but my books," he once remarked...