[21] Walter Scott, b. 1771; d. 1832; Lay of Last Minstrel, 1805; Marmion, 1808; Lady of the Lake, 1810; Waverley, 1814; Woodstock, 1826; Life of Napoleon, 1827; Life, by Lockhart, 1832-37.
[22] He was clerk in Her Majesty’s Foreign Office in London. Carlyle says in a letter (of date of 1842), “I have the liveliest impression of that good honest Scotch face and character, though never in contact with the young man but once.”—Lang’s Lockhart, p. 232, vol. ii.
[23] For those readers who have a failing for genealogic quests, I give a résumé of the Scott family history and succession of heirs to Abbotsford. The earlier items are from Scott’s black-letter Bible.
Walter Scott, Senior, m. 1758 = Anne Rutherford. | +------------+ | Walter Scott, Bart., b. 1771; d. 1832; m. 1797 = Margaret Charlotte one of twelve children, | Carpenter, of French of whom five | blood and birth. reached maturity. | | +-----------------+---------+--------+-------------+ | | | | Charlotte Sophia, Walter, Br. Army, Anne, bapt. Charles, bapt. 1799; d. bapt. 1801; m. 1803; d. bapt. 1805; d. 1837; m. 1820 1825, Miss Jobson; unmarried unmarried 1841. = J. G. Lockhart. d. s. p. 1847. 1833. | +----+----------------+---------------------+ | | | John Hugh, Walter Scott, Charlotte, b. 1828; d. 1858 b. 1821; d. b. 1826; d. m. 1847, J. R. Hope, 1831. unmarried later Hope Scott. 1853. | | +--------------------------------+ | Mary Monica, b. 1852; now Mrs. Maxwell Scott, of Abbotsford.
[24] Chapter IV. Queen Anne and the Georges.
[25] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, chapter viii., pp. 126-27, vol. iii., Paris edition.
[26] Henry Mackenzie, b. 1745; d. 1831. Man of Feeling, 1771; The Lounger, 1785.
[27] Rev. Sydney Smith, b. 1771; d. 1845. Memoir by Lady Holland.
[28] Francis Horner, b. 1778; d. 1817. Memoirs and Correspondence, 1843.
[29] Henry Brougham (Lord Brougham and Vaux), b. 1778; d. 1868. Collected Speeches, 1838. Historic Sketches, etc., 1839-43. Autobiography (edited by a brother), published in 1871.