William Tytler

[1] The son of Alexander Tytler, a lawyer ("writer") in Edinburgh, and Jane Leslie of Aberdeen, he was born on 12 October 1711.

His prescription for a happy old age has been often quoted: "short but cheerful meals, music, and a good conscience".

[2] He is buried in the family vault in the sealed south-west section of Greyfriars Kirkyard known as the Covenanter's Prison.

Tytler contributed papers to The Lounger, including one on the Defects of Modern Female Education in teaching the Duties of a Wife (No.

[2] John Thomas Toshach Brown contested the attribution (1896), and his views were followed up by Alexander Lawson, in The Kingis quair and the quare of jelusy (1910).

[4] Christ's Kirk on the Green, a comic ballad, which Tytler also attributed to James, is now thought to be of a later date.