John Hosack (baptised 1813 – 1887)[1] was a Scottish lawyer and historical writer.
He became a student of the Middle Temple in 1838, was called to the bar in 1841, and practised on the northern circuit and at the Liverpool sessions.
[2] In 1875, though not a Q.C., Hosack was made a bencher of his inn, and in 1877 he became police magistrate at Clerkenwell.
He died at his house in Finborough Road, West Brompton, on 3 November 1887, and was buried at Lytham in Lancashire.
In discussing Mary, Queen of Scots, and the "Book of Articles", he wrote "golf is not, and we believe never was, a lady's game in Scotland".