or SCRIMGEOUR, HENRY, a learned Scotchman of the sixteenth century, was born of an ancient and noble family, at the town of Dundee, in 1506. Passing from the grammar school of Dundee, where he began his education, he entered the University of St. Andrews, and gained much distinction in the study of philosophy. Having removed to Paris, he there prosecuted his inquiries into civil law. The fame of the noted legal lecturers, Baron and Dunsen, drew him to Bourges, where he made the acquaintance of Amiot, then Greek professor there, and subsequently cardinal. He now, at the suggestion of his friend Amiot, became tutor to a family named Bucherel, and subsequently went to Italy, in company with Boronetel, the bishop of Renens, whose friendship he had recently secured. Scrimgeour gained the intimacy of many learned men, and greatly improved himself during this Italian tour. He wrote a life of the famous apostate, Francis Sparta, which was probably printed at Basle in 1550 or 1551, but it is not mentioned in any copy of his writings which has come under our notice. On his way home he had occasion to pass through Geneva, where he was prevailed upon to accept of a lectureship in philosophy. Ulric Fugger, the merchant-prince of that age, having invited him to Augsburg, he left Geneva, and gave the rich merchant the benefit of his superior judgment, and his great information in the augmentation of his splendid library. Being introduced by his German patron to Henry Stephens, then residing at Geneva, and the most famous printer in Europe, he entered into negotiations respecting the publication of his works; but, from whatever cause, a jealousy seems to have sprung up between them, which ended only with the life of Scrimgeour. He died at the city of Geneva in or about the year 1571. Scrimgeour's literary property and fame were committed, on his death, to Isaac Casaubon, who seems to have been hardly just to the reputation of the deceased Scotchman. It is now quite impossible to disentangle the writings of Scrimgeour from those of his "literary executor." Casaubon published, in his own name, an edition of Athenaeus in 1600, an edition of Strabo in 1602, Diogenes Laertius in 1593, the Basilica, Phainurum and Palaphatus, 1570—in all of which he was much indebted to the annotations of Scrimgeour and to his improvements on the texts of his authors. The only work published with Scrimgeour's name was Justinian's Novellae Constitutiones, which he had translated into Greek in 1558. This learned man left behind him many valuable manuscripts, of Demosthenes, Eschines, Cicero, and Ensebius, carefully collated, but which never yet have been given to the public. Scrimgeour's immense erudition was only equalled by his exquisite judgment, which found an excellent field for its exercise in the errors and obscurities which had crept into those ancient authors on which he delighted to labour. Cujanus used to say of Scrimgeour that he never talked with him without learning something he had not known before. By no means a wonderful saying for an ordinary man, but a very remarkable one for Cujanus.