About Alexander Whitelaw
Lived 1803 – 1846 (aged 42–43). Alexander Whitelaw was a British editor, writer, poet and journalist.
Alexander Whitelaw (1803–1846) was a Scottish editor and writer.
Life Whitelaw was born in Glasgow, He later was a journalist and poet. Hired by the publishers Blackie, he edited illustrated books;
Edited works The Casquet of Literary Gems (1828) The Republic of Letters (1833) Works of Robert Burns, 2 vols., 1843–4 The Book of Scottish Song (1844) The Book of Scottish Ballads (1845)
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Who was Alexander Whitelaw?
Scottish book editor
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Alexander Whitelaw was born in 1803.
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Alexander Whitelaw died in 1846.
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Alexander Whitelaw was an editor, writer, poet and journalist.
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Alexander Whitelaw was British.
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