and this bears a fine portrait head of Burton in high relief sculpted by William Brodie. In 1901 it was publicly revealed that he supplied all the commentaries to the 240 architectural illustrations by Robert William Billings in The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, a work published in four volumes between 1845 and 1852, which contained 240 illustrations, with explanatory text. The work was a great success and has been reprinted several times, in 1899, 1900, 1901, 1908, 1909, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Family On 23 July 1844, at Edinburgh, John Hill Burton married Isabella, daughter of David Lauder, a Captain in the Perthshire Militia, by his wife Janet Patrick. Isabella died in 1850, aged 40. Their daughter, Matilda Lauder "Mattie" Burton (1848–1928) married Dr William Lennox Cleland (1847–1918) on 21 June 1877. He was a noted surgeon in South Australia and for many years served as Director of Adelaide's Parkside Lunatic Asylum, and as Colonial Surgeon (South Australia). Burton married again, in 1855, Katherine, daughter of Cosmo Innes, the antiquarian. She was an author in her own right, who gave birth the next year to engineer W. K. Burton. They had nine children in total. Another of their children, Mary Rose Hill Burton, was a notable artist. A further son, Cosmo Innes Burton (1862–1890) was a short-lived but noteworthy chemist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Further reading Beveridge, Craig (2022), Recovering Scottish History: John Hill Burton and Scottish National Identity in the Nineteenth Century, Edinburgh University Press, References The Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh edited by A S Cowper, and Euan S McIver, Edinburgh, 1992, Burton, The Book-Hunter. A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author (1860/2; 1882 edition) External links Lives of Simon Lord Lovat, and Duncan Forbes, of Culloden John Hill Burton, 1847, (Chapman & Hall, London) Narratives from criminal trials in Scotland, Vol. 2 John Hill Burton, 1852, (Chapman & Hall, London) 1809 births 1881 deaths Writers from Aberdeen 19th-century Scottish historians Scottish economists Members of the Faculty of Advocates People educated at Aberdeen Grammar School Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Scottish biographers Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Historians of Scotland 19th-century Scottish lawyers 19th-century British economists