Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Carmichael, James (fl.1587)

1381380Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 09 — Carmichael, James (fl.1587)1887Jennett Humphreys

CARMICHAEL, JAMES (fl. 1587), grammarian, was a Scotchman who published a Latin grammar at Cambridge in September 1587. He dedicated it to James VI—‘Scotorum regi christianissimo gratiam et pacem à Domino.’ Carmichael's work, ‘Grammatice Latino de Etymologia,’ &c., was from the press of the university printer, Thomas Thomas, M.A., a lexicographer himself, and its full title is given by Ames; it consists of 52 pp., and has some commandatory poems prefixed. There is a copy of it in the Bodleian.

[Cooper's Athenæ Cantab. ii. 22; Ames’s Topogr. Antiq. (Herbert), 1414, l4l8.]

J. H.