Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Corrie, Archibald
CORRIE, ARCHIBALD (1777–1857), agriculturist, was a native of Perthshire, where he was born in 1777. In 1797 he obtained a situation in a nursery near Edinburgh, which he held for some years. Afterwards he became manager of the estate of Annat, Perthshire, farming also on his own account. For many years his agricultural reports contributed to the Scottish newspapers were read with interest in all parts of the kingdom. In his early years he was associated with George Don, who published a ‘System of Gardening and Botany’ founded on Miller's ‘Gardener's Dictionary.’ To Loudon's and other magazines Corrie contributed a large number of papers on different departments of agriculture and horticulture, which were of considerable value in advancing these arts. He died at Annat Cottage, near Errol, in 1857, in his eightieth year.
[Gent. Mag. 1857, new ser. vol. iii. pt. ii. p. 344.]