John Colin Dunlop (circa 1785 - 1842), historian, son of a Lord Provost of Glasgow, Scotland, where and at Edinburgh he was educated, was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1807, and became Sheriff of Renfrewshire. He wrote a History of Fiction (1814), a History of Roman Literature to the Augustan Age (1823-28), and Memoirs of Spain during the Reigns of Philip IV. and Charles II. (1834). He also made translations from the Latin Anthology.
This article incorporates public domain text from : Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.
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- http://ub-dok.uni-trier.de/dunlop/inhalt.htm Table of contents of the German translation (Leipzig 1851, enlarged ed.) of Dunlop's History of Fiction and biographical article from Dictionary of National Biography (1908)
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| NAME | Dunlop, John Colin |
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| DATE OF BIRTH | 1785 |
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| DATE OF DEATH | 1842 |
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