Charles Cordiner

Charles Cordiner (c.1746–1794) was a Scottish Episcopal clergyman and antiquary.


Charles Cordiner
Minister of St Andrew's Chapel, Banff
Appointed1769
Personal details
Bornc.1746
Died18 November 1794 (aged 48)
Banff, Aberdeenshire
DenominationScottish Episcopal Church

Life

Bothwell Castle (c.1760s)

Charles Cordiner became Episcopalian minister of St Andrew's Chapel, Banff, in 1769. He became known as a writer on antiquities. He died at Banff on 18 November 1794, aged forty-eight, leaving a widow and eight children. James Cordiner was his son.[1]

Works

He was the author of Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a series of Letters to Thomas Pennant, London, 1780; and Remarkable Ruins and Romantic Prospects of North Britain, with Ancient Monuments and singular subjects of Natural History, 2 vols. London, 1788–95. This last work, which is illustrated with engravings by Peter Mazell, was published in parts, but Cordiner did not live to see the publication of the last part.[1]

References

  1. Stephen, ed. 1887, p. 215.

Sources

Attribution:

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Cordiner, Charles". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 215.
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