Alison, Sir Archibald, son of the preceding, a lawyer who held several prominent legal appointments, and a historian, his great work being a “Modern History of Europe from the French Revolution to the Fall of Napoleon,” afterwards extended to the “Accession of Louis Napoleon” (1792‒1867).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Alison, Archibald * Alison, W. Pulteney