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Sir Thomas Malory

Literature; General literature

(flourished 1470) Translator of Morte d'Arthur. Very little is known of him. An endeavour has been made to identify him with a Sir Thomas Malory of Warwickshire, who fought successively on both sides ...

Robert Rollock

Literature; General literature

(1555?-1599) Theologian and scholar, born in Stirlingshire, was first a Professor in St. Andrews, and then the first Principal of the University of Edinburgh. He also held office as Professor of ...

John Crowne

Literature; General literature

(1640?-1703) Dramatist, returned from Nova Scotia, to which his father, a Nonconformist minister, had emigrated, and became gentleman usher to a lady of quality. His first play, Juliana, appeared in ...

Mrs. Anne (M'Vicar) Grant

Literature; General literature

(1755-1838) Was born in Glasgow, and in 1779 married the Rev. James Grant, minister of Laggan, Inverness-shire. She puborn in 1802 a vol. of poems. She also wrote Letters from the Mountains, and ...

Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier

Literature; General literature

(1782-1854) Novelist, daughter of James Ferrier, one of the principal clerks of the Court of Session, in which office he was the colleague of Sir Walter Scott. Miss Ferrier wrote three excellent ...

Cosmo Innes

Literature; General literature

(1798-1874) Historian and antiquary, was called to the Scottish Bar in 1822, and was appointed Professor of Constitutional Law and History in the University of Edinburgh in 1846. He was the author of ...

John Oldham

Literature; General literature

(1653-1683) Satirist and translator, son of a Nonconformist minister, was at Oxford, and was the friend of most of the literary men of his time, by whom his early death from smallpox was bewailed. He ...