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Neil Munro

Literature; General literature

(1864) Novelist, etc. The Lost Pibroch (1896), John Splendid (1898), Gillian the Dreamer (1899), Doom Castle (1901), The Shoes of Fortune (1901), Children of the Tempest (1903), The Daft Days (1907), ...

Patrick Abercrombie

Literature; General literature

(1656-1716) Antiquary and historian, was physician to James II. in 1685; he was a Jacobite and opposed the Union in various pamphlets. His chief work was Martial Achievements of the Scots Nation ...

Edward Clodd

Literature; General literature

(1840) Scientific writer, etc. The Childhood of the World (1872), The Childhood of Religions (1875), Myths and Dreams (1885), Story of Primitive Man (1895), Primer of Evolution (1895), Animism ...

William Glen

Literature; General literature

(1789-1826) Poet, born in Glasgow, was for some years in the West Indies. He died in poverty. He wrote several poems, but the only one which has survived is his Jacobite ballad, Wae's me for Prince ...

Ernest William Hornung

Literature; General literature

(1866) Novelist. A Bride from the Bush (1890), The Boss of Taroomba, The Unbidden Guest (1894), Dead Men tell no Tales (1899), The Amateur Cracksman (1899), The Black Mask, A Thief in the Night ...

George Macaulay Trevelyan

Literature; General literature

(1876) Historical writer. England in the Age of Wycliffe (1899), England under the Stuarts (1904), The Poetry and Philosophy of George Meredith (1906), Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic ...

Alfred Noyes

Literature; General literature

(1880) Poet, etc. The Loom of Years (1902), The Flower of Old Japan (1903), Poems (1904), The Forest of Wild Thyme (1905), Drake (an English epic) (1906), William Morris (1907), The Enchanted Island ...