William Ogilvie of Pittensear

About William Ogilvie of Pittensear

William Ogilvie of Pittensear FRSE FSA (Scot) (1736–1819), known as the Rebel Professor and described by his biographer as the "Euclid of Land law Reform", was a Scottish classicist, numismatist and author of an influential historic land reform treatise. Published in London in 1781, An Essay on the Right of Property in Land was issued anonymously, necessarily it seems in a revolutionary age.