page_title: Hugo Arnot
hierarchical_section_title: Hugo Arnot
caption_attribution_description: Henry Home, Lord Kames; Hugo Arnot; James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, by John Kay (died 1826). See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have been confirmed as author died before 1939 according to the official death date listed by the NPG.
context_page_description: Hugo Arnot of Balcormo was a Scottish advocate, writer, and campaigner.
  Arnot was the son of a Leith merchant, where he was born on 8 December 1749 as Hugo Pollock. He adopted his mother's maiden name, Arnot, after succeeding to her property of Balcormo in Fife. He became an advocate 5 December 1772. From at least 1773 until death he lived on Princes Street.
  In 1779 he published his History of Edinburgh with a second issue with added illustrations later in the year, a second edition appeared in 1788 and a third in 1816, and in 1785 a Collection of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland. Both works were pirated in Ireland.
  He became prematurely old from asthma, and his irritability, caustic language, and a reluctance to accept cases where the potential customer in his opinion was in the wrong, hindered his success as an advocate. Many anecdotes are told of his eccentricity. He wrote many papers on local politics, opposing local taxation and road tolls mainly hitting the poorer part of the population as means for funding road projects. He is said to have held up for ten years the erection of the city's South Bridge.
  Arnot died 20 November 1786, and left eight children.
context_section_description: Hugo Arnot of Balcormo (1749-1786) was a Scottish advocate, writer, and campaigner.
  Arnot was the son of a Leith merchant, where he was born on 8 December 1749 as Hugo Pollock. He adopted his mother's maiden name, Arnot, after succeeding to her property of Balcormo in Fife. He became an advocate 5 December 1772. From at least 1773 until death he lived on Princes Street.
  In 1779 he published his History of Edinburgh with a second issue with added  illustrations later in the year,  a second edition appeared in 1788 and a third in 1816 ), and in 1785 a Collection of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland.  Both works were pirated in Ireland.
  He became prematurely old from asthma, and his irritability, caustic language, and a reluctance to accept cases where the potential customer in his opinion was in the wrong, hindered his success as an advocate. Many anecdotes are told of his eccentricity. He wrote many papers on local politics, opposing local taxation and road tolls mainly hitting the poorer part of the population as means for funding road projects. He is said to have held up for ten years the erection of the city's South Bridge.
  Arnot died 20 November 1786, and left eight children. He is buried in South Leith Parish Churchyard.
  His daughter Christian Arnot married Dr Peter Reid and was mother to David Boswell Reid.
caption: Henry Lord Kames, Hugo Arnot, and James Lord Monboddo. Etching by John Kay, 1784.
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