Guthrie, WILLIAM

Guthrie, WILLIAM, a political, historical, and miscellaneous writer, was born at Brechin, in Forfarshire, in 1708, and educated at King's College, Aberdeen. At an early period he removed to London, where he worked hard for forty years as a man of letters. He died in March 1770. Among his various works are a History of England (3 vols. 1744-50), and A Historical and Geographical Grammar (1770; 24th ed. 1827), a useful manual of information, which long enjoyed immense popularity.