Значение слова M'CRIE в Литературной энциклопедии

THOMAS (1772-1835).-Biographer and ecclesiastical historian, _b._ at Duns, and _ed._ at the Univ. of Edin., became the leading minister of one of the Dissenting churches of Scotland. His _Life of Knox_ (1813) ranks high among biographies for the ability and learning which it displays, and was the means of vindicating the great Reformer from a cloud of prejudice and misunderstanding in which he had been enveloped. It was followed by a _Life of Andrew Melville_ (1819), Knox's successor as the leader of the Reformers in Scotland, also a work of great merit. M'C. also _pub._ histories of the Reformation in Italy and Spain. He received the degree of D.D. in 1813.