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Born 17th November 1843 Culross Fife, son of Jasper Wallace, master-gardener. Educated at the Geddes Institution, Culross; Aberdeen Grammar School and…

Sir Walter Scott

Dates: 15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832
Occupation: Novelist, poet, historian, lawyer
Nationality: Scottish
Born Edinburgh, son of a solicitor.…

Andrew Lang

Dates: 31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912
Occupation: Poet, critic, folklorist, historian
Nationality: Scottish
Born Selkirk, eldest son of the town…

W.E.Henley

Dates: 23 August 1849 – 11 July 1903
Occupation: Poet, critic, editor
Nationality: English
Born Gloucester, son of a bookseller. Tubercular disease…

J.M.Barrie

Dates: 9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937
Occupation: Novelist, playwright
Nationality: Scottish
Born Kirriemuir, Angus, the son of a weaver. Educated at…

E.A.Hornell

Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864–1933) Scottish painter associated with the Glasgow Boys movement. Lived in Kirkcudbright, Galloway from1866, where he…

T.Fisher Unwin

T. Fisher Unwin (Thomas Fisher Unwin, 1848–1935)
Son of printer Jacob Unwin (founder of Unwin Brothers and the Gresham Press) Thomas founded the…

Robert Louis Stevenson

(1850–1894)Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer. Correspondence with Crockett from 1880s until his death.
Stevenson archival…

William Robertson Nicoll

Dates: 10 October 1851 – 4 May 1923
Occupation: Free Church minister, editor, journalist
Nationality: Scottish

Sir William Robertson Nicoll was…