William Minto
William Minto (10 October 1845 – 1 March 1893) was a Scottish man of letters.
Life
He was born at Auchintoul, Aberdeenshire. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen, and spent a year at Merton College, Oxford. He was assistant professor under Alexander Bain at Aberdeen for some years; from 1874 to 1878 he edited the Examiner, and in 1880 he was made full professor of logic and English at Aberdeen.
Works
In 1872 he published a Manual of English Prose Literature, which was distinguished by sound judgment and sympathetic appreciation; and his Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley (1874) showed the same high qualities. His other works include:
- The Literature of the Georgian Era (1894) edited with a biographical introduction by W Knight
- Logic: Inductive and Deductive (1893)
- a monograph on Defoe in the "English Men of Letters" series (1879)
- three novels
- numerous articles on literary subjects in the 9th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Family
On 8 January 1880 Minto married Cornelia, daughter of the Rev. Lewis Griffiths, rector of Swindon, Gloucestershire.[1] He had two sons, William and Charles. The elder died during celebrations to mark the end of the First World War when a shell misfired.
References
- ↑
"Minto, William". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "article name needed". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Minto, William". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
External links
Works written by or about William Minto at Wikisource
- William Minto on SF Encyclopedia.
- Works by William Minto at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about William Minto at Internet Archive
- Works by William Minto at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
