(1865) 3–5; _I.L.N. xlvi_ 97 (1865).
LORIMER, JAMES (son of James Lorimer, manager of Earl of
Kinnoul’s estates). _b._ Aberdalgie, Perthshire 4 Nov. 1818;
ed. at high school Perth and the univs. of Edinb., Berlin and
Bonn and academy of Geneva; member of Faculty of advocates
1845; acted as sheriff substitute of Midlothian; F.R.S. Edinb.
1861; professor of public law in univ. of Edinb. 15 May 1865 to
death, where he introduced graduation in law; a founder of The
institute of international law 1873; author of The universities
of Scotland, past, present and possible 1854; A handbook of
the law of Scotland 1859, 5 ed. 1885; Constitutionalism of the
future, or parliament the mirror of the nation 1865, 2 ed. 1867;
The institutes of law, a treatise of jurisprudence as determined
by nature 1872, 2 ed. 1880; The institutes of the law of nations
2 vols. 1883–4, and of 19 lectures and 14 pamphlets. _d._ 1
Bruntsfield crescent, Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1890, portrait by his
son J. H. Lorimer, R.S.A. in senate hall of univ. of Edinb.
_James Lorimer’s Studies national and international_ (1890);
_Juridical Review_, _April 1890 pp._ 113–21, _portrait_.
LORIMER, JOHN GORDON (2 son of rev. Robert Lorimer 1765–1848,
minister of Haddington). _b._ Haddington; minister of Torryburn
1829; minister of St. David’s or Ram’s Horn parish, Glasgow
1832 to 1843; minister of St. David’s Free ch. Glasgow 1843
to death; D.D. of coll. of New Jersey 27 June 1849; author of
The past and present condition of religion and morality in the
United States 1833; The eldership of the church of Scotland
1841; Historical sketch of the protestant church of France 1841;
The deaconship 1842; Sermons on Sabbath profanation 184-. _d._
Glasgow 9 Oct. 1868. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848)
349–58.
LORIMER, PETER (eld. son of John Lorimer, builder). _b._
Edinburgh 1812; bursar in univ. of Edinb. 1827; minister of
presbyterian ch. River terrace, London 1836–44; professor of
theology in English presbyterian college, London 1844–78,
principal 1878 to death; D.D. New Jersey, June 1857; author of
Precursors of Knox, or memoirs of Patrick Hamilton, Alexander
Alane or Alesius, and Sir David Lindsay of the Mount Edinburgh
1857; The evidential value of the early epistles of St. Paul
viewed as historical documents 1874, 3 ed. 1880; The evidence to
Christianity arising from its adaptation to all the deeper wants
of the human heart 1876; John Knox and the church of England