John Stuart Blackie (1809–1895) by Sir George Reid, 1893 Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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Blackie, John Stuart (1809–1895)
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Blackie, John Stuart (1809–1895), classical and Scottish Gaelic scholar
E. Kerr Borthwick
Blackie, John Stuart (1809–1895), classical and Scottish Gaelic scholar, was born on 28 July 1809 in Charlotte Street, Glasgow, the eldest son of Alexander Blackie (bap. 1780, d. 1856), banker, and Helen (1783–1819), daughter of William Stodart of Hamilton and his wife, ...