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The Honourable Thomas Erskine was the third son of David Earl of Buchan, a Scottish peer of ancient family and title, but reduced fortune. He was born in January 1748, and received the rudiments of his education, partly at the High School of Edinburgh, partly at the University of St. Andrews. But the straitened circumstances of his family rendered it necessary for him to embrace some profession at an early age; and he accordingly entered the navy as a midshipman in 1764. Not thinking his prospects of advancement sufficiently favourable to render his continuance in that service expedient, he exchanged it in the year 1768 for that of the army.
- АвторArthur Thomas Malkin
- ВидавництвоProject Gutenberg
- Оригінальна назваThe Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 3 (of 7)
- Тип книгиЕлектронна книга