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Major James B. Pond

Born Cuba, New York; raised in Illinois and Wisconsin. Served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of major; awarded…

Malcolm McLachlan Harper

Malcolm McLachlan Harper (1839–1914) was a Scottish landscape painter, local historian, author and Captain in the Galloway Rifle Volunteers, based in…

Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898)

Otto Von Bismarck , Chancellor of German Empire 1871-1890 whom Crockett met during his travels in Switzerland c1884.

Professor Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) Balliol College Oxford

Professor Jowett

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Samuel Rutherford

Scottish Presbyterian Minister (from Galloway) c1600-1661 from whom Crockett derived/adopted his middle name in tribute.

Sir Walter Scott

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

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…

W.E.Henley

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