Charles Cordiner

Charles Cordiner (c. 1746–1794) was a Scottish Episcopal clergyman and antiquary.

Charles Cordiner became Episcopalian minister of St Andrew's Chapel, Banff, in 1769.

He died at Banff on 18 November 1794, aged forty-eight, leaving a widow and eight children.

[1] He was the author of Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a series of Letters to Thomas Pennant, London, 1780; and Remarkable Ruins and Romantic Prospects of North Britain, with Ancient Monuments and singular subjects of Natural History, 2 vols.

This last work, which is illustrated with engravings by Peter Mazell, was published in parts, but Cordiner did not live to see the publication of the last part.