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William Minto
1845–1893
A lively Scottish man of letters, he moved easily between journalism, criticism, and university life. Best known as an editor of the Examiner and later a professor at Aberdeen, he wrote about prose, poets, and the craft of clear writing.
2 Audiobooks
Logic, Inductive and Deductive
by William Minto
Daniel Defoe
by William Minto
About the author
Born in Aberdeenshire in 1845, William Minto was a Scottish academic, critic, editor, journalist, and novelist. Available biographical sources agree that he studied at the University of Aberdeen and also spent a year at Merton College, Oxford.
Minto built a career in both literary journalism and scholarship. He edited the Examiner in the 1870s, wrote for major newspapers, and in 1880 became professor of logic and English at Aberdeen. His books include works on English prose and poetry, and he was remembered as a versatile man of letters rather than a writer confined to one field.
He died in 1893 at the age of 47. Although he is less widely read today than some of the authors he studied, he remains an interesting figure for listeners drawn to Victorian literary criticism, biography, and the history of clear English prose.