Burton, John Hill, historian and miscellaneous writer, born at Aberdeen; an able man, bred for the bar; wrote articles for the leading reviews and journals, “Life of Hume,” “History of Scotland,” “The Book-Hunter,” “The Scot Abroad,” &c.; characterised by Lord Rosebery as a “dispassionate historian”; was Historiographer-Royal for Scotland (1809‒1881).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Burslem * Burton, Sir Richard Francis