Aglionby Ross Carson

He was born in Hollywood in Dumfriesshire and his early life was spent in Closeburn.{{Cite web|url=http://www.visitsouthernscotland.co.uk/closeburn-c109.html|title=Closeburn|website=www.visitsouthernscotland.co.uk|access-date=2018-01-20|archive-date=13 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913022825/http://www.visitsouthernscotland.co.uk/closeburn-c109.html|url-status=live}} He was educated at Wallace HallMonuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland: The Grampian Society, 1871 then sent to Edinburgh to study, first at the Edinburgh High School then at the University of Edinburgh, studying classics.

From 1801 to 1806 he served as rector of Dumfries Grammar School. He then returned to Edinburgh High School to teach Classics, until 1820, when he was promoted to rector, in charge of the school.{{Cite book |url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |title=Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) |author=C D Waterston |author2=A Macmillan Shearer |publisher=Royal Society of Edinburgh |isbn=090219884X |date=July 2006 |access-date=18 September 2015 |archive-date=24 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |url-status=dead}} He was a contributor to the Scottish Review and Encyclopædia Britannica.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1821 and in 1826 the University of St Andrews awarded him an honorary doctorate (LL.D).

In the 1830s he is listed at 82 Lauriston Place in Edinburgh, just west of Greyfriars Kirkyard.{{Cite web|url=http://digital.nls.uk/83399991|title=Edinburgh Post Office annual directory, 1832-1833|website=National Library of Scotland|access-date=2018-01-20}}

He resigned as rector of the high school in 1845. He died in Edinburgh on 4 November 1850 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard with his wife Anne Irving and four of their children. The grave lies towards the north end of the western extension.

A memorial to Carson was later erected in St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

• The Relative Qui, Quae, Quad
• Exercises in Attic Greek{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nb2007026165/|title=[Letter] 1849 January, Laurieston Place, [to] Robert Allen, Esq. /|website=www.worldcat.org|access-date=2018-01-20|archive-date=16 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316102604/http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nb2007026165/|url-status=live}}
• Translations of Tacitus and Phaedrus

His portrait, by Sir John Watson Gordon, is held by the Royal High School, Edinburgh.{{cite DNB |wstitle= Carson, Aglionby Ross |volume= 09 |last= Henderson |first= Thomas Finlayson |author-link= Thomas Finlayson Henderson |pages= 185-186 |short= 1}}

His granddaughter, Mary Carson, married the anatomist David Hepburn.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

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