URI(s)
Fuller Name
- Cosmo Nelson
Variants
- Innes, Cosmo Nelson, 1798-1874
- Innes, C. (Cosmo), 1798-1874
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1798-09-09
Death Date
- 1874-07-31
Birth Place
Field Of Activity
- Field Of Activity: Antiquities
Field Of Activity
- Field Of Activity: Law--Antiquities
Field Of Activity
- Field Of Activity: Constitutional law
Field Of Activity
- Field Of Activity: History
Occupation
- Occupation: Antiquarians
Occupation
- Occupation: Lawyers
Occupation
- Occupation: Judges
Occupation
- Occupation: Historians
Occupation
- Occupation: University and college faculty members
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Earlier Established Forms
- Innes, Cosmo Nelson, 1798-1874
Sources
- found: His Lectures on Scotch legal antiquities, 1872:t.p. (Cosmo Innes)
- found: LC in OCLC, 7-2-86(hdg.: Innes, Cosmo Nelson, 1798-1874; usage: Cosmo Innes)
- found: MoSU-L/NLT files(usage: Cosmo Innes, C. Innes)
- found: Oxford DNB website, 24 March 2022(Innes, Cosmo Nelson (1798-1874), antiquary; born 9 September 1798 at Durris, near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire; childhood spent at Durris, winters in Edinburgh, during which he attended Edinburgh high school; studied at King's College, Aberdeen, then University of Glasgow; entered Balliol College, Oxford, in 1817 and graduated BA in 1820 and MA in 1824; called to the Scottish bar in 1822 and in 1834 was made advocate-depute under Lord Grey's whig ministry; career as an antiquarian began in 1824 when employed to work on the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland; member of the Bannatyne Club and founding member of the Edinburgh Calotype Club and the Photographic Society of Scotland; between 1831 and 1874 Innes produced numerous volumes of medieval and early modern source material; in 1846 appointed professor of civil (from 1862 constitutional) history at the University of Edinburgh; died unexpectedly at Killin, Perthshire, on 31 July 1874)
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Change Notes
- 1986-07-21: new
- 2025-08-05: revised
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