those who aided him includes every man of note in Scotland at the time, from Sir Thomas Craig and Sir George Mackenzie to Alexander Nisbet and Thomas Ruddiman. Death The date of Abercromby's death is uncertain. It has been variously assigned to 1715, 1716, 1720, and 1726, and it is usually added that he left a widow in great poverty. The Memoirs of the Abercrombys, commonly attributed to him, do not appear to have been published. Works Translation; Beaugué, Jean de, History of the Campaigns of 1548 and 1549, (1707) References Further reading 1656 births 1710s deaths Scottish antiquarians 17th-century Scottish medical doctors 18th-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish Jacobites Patrick People from Forfar Scottish nationalists Scottish Roman Catholics Alumni of the University of St Andrews University of Paris alumni Scottish translators 18th-century Scottish historians British military historians 17th-century antiquarians 18th-century antiquarians Kingdom of Scotland expatriates in France