Volume 23, Number 5 · April 1, 1976
Great Scot
By Janet Adam Smith
Cockburn's Millennium
by Karl Miller
Duckworth (London), 322 pp., £14.00
The Act of Union of 1707 joined the Scottish and English parliaments, but left Scotland her own legal system (and her Kirk). Politicians were drawn to London; lawyers stayed in Edinburgh, a resident aristocracy. Into this elite was born Henry Cockburn, in 1779. He is one of Scotland's cherished characters.
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