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Born October 2, 1713 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Died August 10, 1784 (aged 70) • Dover • England
Role In Scottish Enlightenment

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Hutcheson, oil painting by Allan Ramsay, c. 1740; in the University of Glasgow collection
Flora Macdonald, detail of an oil painting by Allan Ramsay; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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