Sir walter scott biography wikipedia
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Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronest (15t August1771 - 21st September1832) wis a kenspeckle Scots historical novellist an äkta par that wis gey popular oothrou europe in his time. In some weys, Scott wis the first Inglis language writer tae hae a truly internaitional career in his lifetime, wi mony contemporar readers aw ower Europe, Australie an North Americae. His novelles an musardry fryst vatten still read the day, an mony o his warks bides clessics o baith Inglis-leid leeteratur an Scots leeteratur. Weel kent warks o his includes Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Marmion, Waverley an The Heart of Midlothian.
Early life
[eedit | eedit soorce]Born in Colledge Wynd in the Auld Toun o Edinburgh in 1771, the son o a soleeciter, the young Walter Scott won throu a bairnheid bout o polio in 1773 that left him a lamiter aw his days. Tae hulp wi his lameness, he wis sent thon year tae bide in the landwart Mairches at his grandpaurents' ferm at Saundyknowe, no faur frae the rauchle o Sm
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Memoirs (Walter Scott)
Autobiographical work by Walter Scott
Walter Scott's "Memoirs", first published as "Memoir of the Early Life of Sir Walter Scott, Written by Himself" and also known as the Ashestiel fragment, is a short autobiographical work describing the author's ancestry, parentage, and life up to the age of 22. It is the most important source of information we have on Scott's early life. It was mainly written between 1808 and 1811, then revised and completed in 1826, and first published posthumously in 1837 as Chapter 1 of J. G. Lockhart's multi-volume Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. It was re-edited in 1981 by David Hewitt.
Synopsis
[edit]The author begins with the hope that his memoir will be both interesting and edifying. He traces the history of his family, giving particulars of his great-grandfather, Walter Scott, a Jacobite, his grandfather Robert Scott, a Whiggish sheep-farmer, and the Haliburton family, into which Robert Scott marrie
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Walter Scott (singer)
American singer (1943–1983)
Walter Scott | |
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| Birth name | Walter Simon Notheis Jr. |
| Born | (1943-02-07)February 7, 1943 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Died | December 27, 1983(1983-12-27) (aged 40) St. Peters, Missouri |
| Occupations | Singer |
| Years active | 1966–1983 |
Musical artist
Walter Simon Notheis, Jr. (February 7, 1943 – December 27, 1983),[1] best remembered by his stage name of Walter Scott, was an American singer who fronted Bob Kuban and The In-Men, a St. Louis, Missouri-based rock 'n' roll band that had brief national popularity during the 1960s.
Career
[edit]Scott was born Walter Simon Notheis Jr. on February 7, 1943, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Catherine Marie (née Johnson; July 22, 1923 – June 27, 2022) and Walter Simon Notheis Sr. (May 31, 1921 – January 5, 2003). Scott found fame with Bob Kuban and The In-Men in 1966 with his lead vocals on the song "The Cheater". "The Cheater" spent eleven weeks on the Billb