Alexander Carlyle

Alexander Carlyle (1722-1805), surnamed Jupiter Carlyle, from his noble head and imposing person, was a Scottish churchman, born in Dumfriesshire. He was minister of Inveresk, Musselburgh, from 1747 to his death. He was friend of David Hume, Adam Smith, and Home, the author of "Douglas". He was a leader of the Moderate party in the Church of Scotland. He left an "Autobiography," which was not published till 1860, which shows its author to have been a man who took things as he found them, and enjoyed them to the full as any easy-going, cultured pagan.

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