Blackwell, THOMAS

Blackwell, THOMAS, scholar, a brother most likely of Alexander Blackwell (q.v.), was born at Aberdeen in 1701, and took his M.A. in 1718. In 1723 he was appointed professor of Greek in Marischal College, and in 1748 its principal. He died at Edinburgh, 8th March 1756. He was author of Inquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer (1735), Memoirs of the Court of Augustus (3 vols. 1752-64), and two or three other works.