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Thomas Blackwell (scholar)
Thomas Blackwell the younger (4 August 1701 – 6 March 1757) was a classical scholar, historian and "one of the major figures in the Scottish Enlightenment."〔Wykes, David L. (2011). "The Revd John Aikin senior Kibworth School and Warrington Academy." In: ''Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740–1860''. Cambridge University Press, p. 31.〕
==Life==
He was born on 4 August 1701 in the city of Aberdeen, son of Rev. Thomas Blackwell (?1660–1728), one of the ministers of Aberdeen.〔Fordyce, Alexander Dingwall (1885). "Blackwell (Thomas, LL.D.)." In: (''Family Record of the Name of Dingwall Fordyce in Aberdeenshire'' ). Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson, p. 21.〕 He attended the Grammar School of his native place and studied Greek and philosophy at Marischal College, graduating M.A. in 1718. He was presented to the chair of Greek at Marischal in 1723,〔From 1723 to 1757.〕 becoming the college's principal〔From 1748 to 1757.〕 in 7 October 1748.〔Fordyce (1885), p. 21.〕〔He became LL.D. in 1752. – See "Blackwell (Thomas)." In: ''A New General Biographical Dictionary'', Vol. 4. B. Fellowes, 1853, p. 272.〕 Blackwell was a well regarded professor and taught a number of important Enlightenment figures including Principal George Campbell,〔Suderman, Jeffrey M. (2001). ''Orthodoxy and Enlightenment: George Campbell in the Eighteenth Century''. McGill-Queen's Press, p. 153.〕 Robert Chambers, Alexander Gerard,〔"As in learning and knowledge he was exquisite and equal to any, so in the address of a teacher he was perhaps superior to all. No man ever possessed, in a more eminent degree the talent of inspiring young minds with a love of learning; of begetting among them a generous emulation; and of forming them to a taste and perception of what was elegant and beautiful in the admired productions of antiquity." – Gerard, Alexander (1807). "A Character of Dr. Thomas Blackwell." In: ''Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames'', by Alexander Fraser Tytler, Vol. I, Appendix No. VII. Edinburgh: William Creech, p. 49.〕 and James Beattie,〔Feldman, Burton (1972). "Thomas Blackwell, 1701–1757." In: ''The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680–1860''. Indiana University Press, p. 102.〕 He strongly influenced James Macpherson, the godfather as it were of Ossian, Lord Monboddo and Adam Ferguson.
In May 1751, he married Barbara Black, third daughter of James Black, Dean of Guild of Aberdeen, and his wife Agnes Fordyce, daughter of Provost George Fordyce.〔Fordyce (1885), p. 20.〕 They had no children.〔Fordyce (1885), p. 23.〕 Thomas Blackwell died of a consumptive illness in Edinburgh on 6 March 1757. His remains were buried in Greyfriars Churchyard.〔Fordyce (1885), p. 23.〕
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