Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lothian, William
LOTHIAN, WILLIAM (1740–1783), divine and historian, born on 5 Nov. 1740, was son of George Lothian, surgeon, of Edinburgh. After attending Edinburgh High School he was licensed to preach in October 1762, and was ordained minister of the Canongate, Edinburgh, in August 1764. On 15 Oct. 1779 he received the degree of D.D. from Edinburgh University. He died on 17 Dec. 1783. By his marriage, on 1 Oct. 1766, to Elizabeth Lothian (d. 1815), he had four sons and a daughter.
Lothian wrote ‘The History of the United Provinces of the Netherlands,’ 4to, London, 1780; and two sermons for ‘The Scotch Preacher,’ 12mo, Edinburgh, 1776, vol. ii.
[Hew Scott's Fasti Eccl. Scot. I. i. 86; Anderson's Scot. Nation, ii. 693.]