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Writer, Editor. John Gibson Lockhart (12 June 1794 – 25 November 1854) was a Scottish writer and editor. He is best known as the author of the seminal, and much-admired, seven-volume biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. [1] He produced four novels in the early 1820s including Adam ...
John Gibson Lockhart was a Scottish critic, novelist, and biographer, best remembered for his Life of Sir Walter Scott (1837–38; enlarged 1839), one of the great biographies in English. Lockhart, the son of a Presbyterian minister descended from the landed gentry, studied at the universities of
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The pedigree of Scott’s biographer and son-in-law, John Gibson Lockhart, was hardly inferior in historical interest to Sir Walter’s own. Both Sir Walter and his son-in-law were descended from cadet branches of noble houses. If Harden was the “fountain of the gentry” of Scott, Lockhart of Lee was, as we shall see, in all probability, the ...
John Gibson Lockhart was born on 12 June 1794, the son of the Reverend Mr John Lockhart, minister of the parish and Elizabeth Gibson. The baptism entry in the Old Parish Register (OPR) for Cambusnethan records that he was their first child. Birth entry for John Gibson Lockhart in the OPR for Cambusnethan (21 KB jpeg)
The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart. contents: When John Gibson Lockhart assumed the editorship of the Quarterly Review in 1825 he inherited from William Gifford not just a journal, but the doubtful honor of being a lightning-rod for Whig attacks on the Tory literary establishment. Their cases were similar: like Gifford, Lockhart had ...
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"John Gibson Lockhart" published on by null. (1794–1854)Writer, biographer, and critic, born at Cambusnethan, educated at Glasgow University and Balliol College, Oxford. He was called to the Scottish bar, and became one of the principal contributors ...
John Gibson Lockhart. (1794–1854). The critic, novelist, and biographer John Gibson Lockhart was a leading figure in Scottish literature of the 19th century. He is best known for his Life of Sir Walter Scott, one of the great biographies in English. Lockhart, the son of a Presbyterian minister, was born on July 14, 1794, in Wishaw ...
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