CHRISTIE, HUGH, master of the Grammar School at Montrose, was born there in 1730. He was the author of several classical works, of some repute in their day. He died in 1774. His publications are:

      A Grammar of the Latin Tongue, after a New and Easy Method, adapted to the capacities of children. 1757, 12mo.

      Introduction to the making Latin, with some Remarks on the idiom of the Roman Language. Edin. 1760, 12mo.

      An Essay on Ecclesiastical Establishments in Religion; shewing their hurtful Tendency; and that they cannot be defended either on the Principles of Reason or Scripture. To which are annexed, Two Discourses. Montrose, 1791, 8vo.

CHRISTIE, THOMAS, a miscellaneous writer, was the son of a merchant in Montrose, where he was born in 1761. He was intended for trade by his father, but his own inclination leading him to the study of medicine, he went to London, and entered himself at the Westminster General Dispensary, as a pupil to Dr. Simmons. He next spent two winters at Edinburgh, and subsequently proceeded to the continent for farther improvement; but while he was at Paris, an advantageous offer, from a respectable mercantile house in London, induced him to become a partner in that house. Early in 1789 he published the first of his works, and continued his labours as an author during subsequent years. Having become a partner in another mercantile firm, some arrangements of trade caused him to take a voyage to Surinam, where he died in 1796. His works are:

      Letters on the Revolution of France, and on the new Constitution established by the National Assembly. Translated from a corrected edition of the original French. London, 1791, 8vo. part i.

      Miscellanies, Philosophical, Medical, and Moral, containing I. Observations on the Literature of the Primitive Christian Writers. II. Reflections suggested by the Character of Pamphilus of Caesarea. III. Hints respecting the State and Education of the People. IV. Thoughts on the Origin of Human Knowledge, and on the Antiquity of the World. V. Remarks on Professor Meiner’s History of Ancient Opinions respecting the Deity. VI. Account of Dr. Ellis’ Work on the Origin of Sacred Knowledge. 1791, 8vo.