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John Pinkerton He was the youngest of three sons of James Pinkerton, who had, in Somersetshire, acquired an independence as a dealer in believed to have been the primary cause of the characteristic. He is said to this period subjected him to a sort of half literary imprisonment, in which, by alternate fits, he devoted his whole time to French, the classics, and mathematics. Intended for the legal profession, he was apprenticed to Mr Aytoun, an eminent writer to the signet, under whose direction he remained for the usual period of five years. Apparently during his apprenticeship, in 1776, he published an "Ode to Craigmillar Castle," dedicated to Dr | |
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