SCOTT, SIR WALTER

(1771-1832), novelist, poet, and man of letters; Scot. Edinburgh, Aug. 15; s. of Walter Scott, b. as a child, but later an active W.S.; sickly though lame; ed. Edinburgh High man, and Univ., studying for Bar. School fas Poetry and Romance, however, cinated him early. His first literary work consisted in translating Goethe, Biirger, and other Ger. poets and collecting Scot. ballads, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 1802. In 1797 he married Charlotte Char pen tier, d. 1826, a Fr. refugee’s dau.; app. sheriff-depute of Sel kirks hire, 1799; lived at Ashestiel. 1804-12; removed to Abbots ford (g.v.), 1812. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1805, followed by Marmion, 1808; Lady of the Lake, 1810; Rokeby, 1813; Lord of the Isles, 1815, ete., placed S. in the front rank of narrative poets. Finding his place in popular favor threatened by Byron, S. now turned to prose romance and published Waverley anonymously, 1814. Other ‘Waverley Novels’ appeared with phenomenal succe in quick succe ion, some being grouped as ‘Tales of My Landlord’: ‘uy Manner ing, 1815, written in six weeks; Antiquary, Old Mortality, Black Dwarf, 1816; Rob Roy, 1817; Heart of Mid loth i an, 1818; Bride of Lammer moor, Legend of Montrose, Ivanhoe, 1819; Monastery, Abbot, 1820; Kenilworth, 1821; Pirate, Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril of the Peak, 1822; Quentin Durward, 1823; St. Ronan’s Well, Red gauntlet, 1824: Talisman, The Betrothed, 1825; Wood stock, 1826; Fair Maid of Perth, 1828; Anne of Geterstein, 1829; Cownt Robert of Paris, Castle Dangerous, 1831. Other works include Life of Napoleon, 1827; History of Scotland, 1830; Tales of a Grandfather, 1828-31; editions of Dryden, Swift, etc., a Journal, 1825-32; pub. 1890, and Familiar Letters, pub. 1894. In 1825 the failure of his printers and publishers, Ballan tyne and Constable, involved S. as partner in debt amounting to $600,000, most of which he cleared ere his death (through overwork) on Sept. 21, 1832. He was buried at Dryburgh Abbey. His courageous, generous, healthy, genial character endeared 8. to friends and fellow-countrymen; his works, especially his novels, won him lasting world-wide fame.: