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Biography. Born a son of the manse of the Kirk o' Shotts, Shotts, Lanarkshire, John Millar was educated by an uncle and then on his father being transferred to the parish of Hamilton, at the Old Grammar School of Hamilton (renamed the Hamilton Academy in 1848.) [1][2] Continuing his studies at the University of Glasgow, he became one of the ...
John Millar was born in Lanarkshire on 22 June, 1735, the son of a minister of the Church of Scotland. When his father was transferred to a church in Hamilton in 1737, the young Millar went to live with his father’s brother, John, with whom he would reside for the next five years. He attended grammar school in Hamilton beginning in 1742, and ...
May 17, 2018 · Millar, John (1735–1801). Millar was born in Lanarkshire, son of a minister. Educated at Hamilton Grammar School and Glasgow University, he became a lawyer and in 1761 accepted the regius chair at Glasgow, which he held for the rest of his life. The Glasgow Law School flourished under his supervision and his pupils included Lauderdale and ...
John Millar, 1735-1801. Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, economic historian and Professor of Civil Law at the University of Glasgow. John Millar is only known to have authored two works. A deep admirer of Adam Smith, John Millar is best know for this Distinctions of Ranks, applying Smith's theories of civilizational stages to explain the ...
‘Hume did not deal with these questions’, Nicholas Miller says, so ‘[i]t would take until the world historians of the 1760s and 1870s for an answer in the spirit of the science of man to be proffered in Scotland’ (p. 46–7). This brings us to John Millar.
- Gordon Graham
- 2018
Mar 7, 2017 · (Translation of German review) 'Miller's John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment- Family Life and World History is an exciting study that is convincingly engaged in several important topics of Enlightenment research: the creation of knowledge, the beginning of a global historiography, and is focused on a single Enlightenment figure whose work was already described by Nicholas B. Miller's ...
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Apr 8, 2019 · This special issue of History of European Ideas publishes several little known sources for the life and work of John Millar (1735–1801). This material supplements modern editions of his works and the records of his professional formation, his teaching, his life as a professor, his political engagement.
