Veitch, WILLIAM

Veitch, WILLIAM, born in Liddesdale in 1794, qualified at Edinburgh for the Church of Scotland; but finding his true walk in scholarship, he published a text of Cicero's De Natura, and Greek Verbs Irregular and Defective (1848; 4th ed. 1878), which led to his employment by Liddell and Scott in revising successive editions of their Lexicon. He rendered similar services to Smith's Latin-English Dictionary, and to a vast number of school-books and works of reference, classical and theological, generally at the solicitation of their editors, whom he had trenchantly reviewed. In 1866 his Alma Mater gave him her degree of LL.D. A humorist and entertaining raconteur to the last, he died in Edinburgh, July 8, 1885.