ERSKINE, HENRY (1746-1817), lord advocate of Scot land, the second son of the loth earl of Buchan, and brother of the lord chancellor Erskine, was born in Edinburgh on Nov. 1, 1746. He was educated at the universities of St. Andrews, Glas gow and Edinburgh, and was admitted a member of the faculty of advocates in 1768. He was lord advocate in 1783 under Fox's and North's ministry, and again under Grenville in 1806. He retired in 1811 and died at Almondel, Linlithgowshire, on Oct. 8, 1817. Erskine's reputation will survive as the finest and most eloquent orator of his day at the Scottish bar ; added to a charm ing forensic style was a most captivating wit, which, as Lord Jeffrey said, was "all argument, and each of his delightful illus trations a material step in his reasoning." Erskine was also the author of some poems, of which the best known is "The Emi grant" See A. Fergusson's Henry Erskine (1882) .