Background
Source: Wikipedia
Robert Carruthers (5 November 1799– 26 May 1878) was a Scottish journalist and miscellaneous writer. He was born in Dumfriesshire and was for a time a teacher in Huntingdon. He wrote a History of Huntingdon in 1824. In 1828 he became editor of the Inverness Courier, in which role he continued for many years. He edited Alexander Pope's works with a memoir (1853), and along with Robert Chambers edited the first edition of Chambers' Cyclopædia of English Literature (1842–44).
