GILFILLAN, GEORGE

GILFILLAN, GEORGE
   a critic and essayist, born at Comrie, minister of a Dissenting congregation in Dundee from 1836 to his death; a writer with a perfervid style; author of "Gallery of Literary Portraits," "Bards of the Bible," etc., and editor of Nichol's "British Poets," which extended to 48 vols. (1817-1878).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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