Author: COLVILL, Robert
Biography:
COLVILL, Robert (1732-88: findmypast.co.uk)
He was born in Edinburgh to Walter Colvill (possibly a miller) and his wife Elizabeth Douglas; they had married in Edinburgh on 30 May 1731. Robert was baptised on 30 Apr. 1732 and he was educated at the James Mundall school in Edinburgh. He served as minister at Dysart, Fife, from 1758-85, and married Marjory (May) Glas on 2 Sept. 1762. He was an assiduous contributor to Walter Ruddiman’s Weekly Magazine, or Edinburgh Amusement. He died at Edinburgh on 23 Jan. 1788. (LSP, vol. 6; Rev. W. Muir, Gleanings from the Records of Dysart [1862]; ancestry.co.uk 15 Oct 2018; findmypast.co.uk 4 Feb. 2025) SR
Books written (15):
2nd edn. Edinburgh: printed by Wal. Ruddiman and Co., 1771
Edinburgh: Ruddiman, 1771
2nd edn. London: J. Wilkie and J. Dodsley, 1771
London: J. Wilkie, 1772
2nd edn. Edinburgh: printed for the author by Wal. Ruddiman, 1772
[Edinburgh?]: [no publisher], [1776?]
2nd edn. London/ Edinburgh: Cadell/ Balfour, Creech, Dickson, and Gordon , 1776
London: J. Bew, 1777
2nd edn. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1779
Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1779
2nd edn. London: Cadell, 1780
London: Cadell, 1780
3rd edn. London: Cadell, 1780
Edinburgh: printed by William Darling, 1788
London: [no publisher: sold by Dodsley and others], 1789