Thomas Vautrollier
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Thomas Vautrollier or Vautroullier was a French Huguenot refugee who became a printer in England and, briefly, in Scotland.
Title page to Vautrollier's first publication in England, A Booke containing divers sortes of hands (1570).
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George Buchanan
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George Buchanan was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was "the most profound intellectual sixteenth-century Scotland produced." His ideology of re
Thomas Vautrollier
…was fined for a similar offence. Shortly thereafter – the exact date is unknown – Vautrollier arrived in Edinburgh with a letter of introduction to George Buchanan. He brought a large supply of books with him, and traded as a bookseller for several years before he started a press. In January 1580 he sold books to…
George Buchanan by A Bronckorst, 1581 (National Gallery of Scotland)
Statue of George Buchanan, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The 31-metre-high (101 ft 8 in) Buchanan Monument in Killearn commemorates his nearby birthplace.
Buchanan, original engraving by Jacobus Houbraken