| LC control no. | n 85252212 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Innes, Cosmo, 1798-1874 |
| Variant(s) | Innes, Cosmo Nelson, 1798-1874 Innes, C. (Cosmo), 1798-1874 |
| Associated country | Great Britain Scotland |
| Located | Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Birth date | 1798-09-09 |
| Death date | 1874-07-31 |
| Place of birth | Kirkton of Durris (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Killin (Scotland) |
| Field of activity | Antiquities Law--Antiquities Constitutional law History |
| Profession or occupation | Antiquarians Lawyers Judges Historians University and college faculty members |
| Found in | His Lectures on Scotch legal antiquities, 1872: t.p. (Cosmo Innes) LC in OCLC, 7-2-86 (hdg.: Innes, Cosmo Nelson, 1798-1874; usage: Cosmo Innes) MoSU-L/NLT files (usage: Cosmo Innes, C. Innes) Oxford DNB website, 24 March 2022 (Innes, Cosmo Nelson (1798-1874), antiquary; born 9 September 1798 at Durris, near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire; childhood spent at Durris, winters in Edinburgh, during which he attended Edinburgh high school; studied at King's College, Aberdeen, then University of Glasgow; entered Balliol College, Oxford, in 1817 and graduated BA in 1820 and MA in 1824; called to the Scottish bar in 1822 and in 1834 was made advocate-depute under Lord Grey's whig ministry; career as an antiquarian began in 1824 when employed to work on the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland; member of the Bannatyne Club and founding member of the Edinburgh Calotype Club and the Photographic Society of Scotland; between 1831 and 1874 Innes produced numerous volumes of medieval and early modern source material; in 1846 appointed professor of civil (from 1862 constitutional) history at the University of Edinburgh; died unexpectedly at Killin, Perthshire, on 31 July 1874) |
| Associated language | eng |
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