For other people named Walter Scott, see Walter Scott (disambiguation).
Sir
Walter Scott
Bt
Portrait by Thomas Lawrence, c. 1820s
Born
15 August 1771 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died
21 September 1832(1832-09-21) (aged 61) Abbotsford, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Occupation
Historical novelist
Poet
Advocate
Sheriff-Depute
Clerk of Session
Alma mater
University of Edinburgh
Military Service
Allegiance
Great Britain
Service/branch
British Militia
Years of service
1797–1802
Rank
Quartermaster
Unit
Royal Edinburgh Volunteer Light Dragoons
Battles/wars
French Revolutionary Wars
Period
19th century
Literary movement
Romanticism
Spouse
Charlotte Carpenter (Charpentier)
Children
5
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Sir Walter Scott, 1st BaronetFRSEFSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), along with the narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He had a major impact on European and American literature.
As an advocate, judge, and legal administrator by profession, he combined writing and editing with his daily work as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire. He was prominent in Edinburgh's Tory establishment, active in the Highland Society, long time a president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820–1832), and a vice president of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1827–1829).[1] His knowledge of history and literary facility equipped him to establish the historical novel genre as an exemplar of European Romanticism. He became a baronet of Abbotsford in the County of Roxburgh, Scotland, on 22 April 1820; the title became extinct upon his son's death in 1847.
^"Famous Fellows". Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
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