Jerome Stone was was an itinerant bookseller and autodidact who became head master of Dunkeld Grammar School; with Samuel Johnson he challenged the authenticity of Macpherson's Ossian. A contributor to The Scots Magazine, he was working on an ambitious philological study of Celtic languages at the time of his early death.
TEXT RECORDS:
1756Albin and the Daughter of Mey, an Old Tale, translated from the Irish.
PUBLICATIONS:
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
Scottish
Presbyterian
no formal education
book trade
schoolmaster
poet
translator
Scots Magazine
REFERENCE:
DNB; not NCBEL.
Obituary in Scots Magazine 18 (June 1756) 314; Alexander Campbell, Introduction to the History of Poetry in Scotland (1798); Joseph Robertson, Lives of Scottish Poets (1821-22); William William Anderson, Scottish Biographical Dictionary (1845).
COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Jerome Stone:
| 1. | 1756 Anonymous, "On hearing of the Death of Mr. Jerom Stone, Schoolmaster at Dunkeld" Scots Magazine 18 (July 1756) 341. |
BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Jerome Stone:
