Thomas Innes (historian)

For the Scottish officer of arms, see Thomas Innes of Learney.

Thomas Innes (1662–1744) was a Scottish historian. He was descended from an old Roman Catholic family of Aberdeenshire. He studied at the Scots College, (Paris), of which he became Principal. He was the author of two learned works,Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain (1729), and Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, 80 to 818 (published by the Spalding Club, 1853).

Links to his works

• Innes, Thomas (1729), A Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain or Scotland, Edinburgh: William Paterson (published 1885){{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
• Innes, Thomas (c. 1740), The Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, A.D. 80 to 818, Aberdeen: The Spalding Club (published 1853){{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.