Biography sir walter scott lockhart

Scottish writer and editor (–)

John Gibson Lockhart (12 June – 25 November ) 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 s including Adam Blair and Reginald Dalton.

Early years

Lockhart was born on 12 June ^[2][3] in the manse of Cambusnethan House in Lanarkshire to Dr John Lockhart, who transferred in to Glasgow, and was appointed minister in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and his second wife Elizabeth Gibson (–), daughter of Margaret Mary Pringle and Reverend John Gibson, minister of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh.^[4][5]

He was the younger paternal half-brother of the politician William Lockhart.

Lockhart attended Glasgow High School, where he showed himself clever rather than industrious. He