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John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854)
Lockhart, John Gibson. A Scotch biographer and poet, son-in-law of Sir Walter Scott; born at Cambusnethan, Lanark, July 14, 1794; died at Abbotsford, Nov. 25, 1854. His writings are: ‘Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk’ (1819); the novels ‘Valerius’ (1821), ‘Adam Blair’ (1822), ‘Reginald Dalton’ (1823), ‘Matthew Wald’ (1824); a volume of translations of ‘Ancient Spanish Ballads’ (1823); ‘Life of Robert Burns’ (1828); ‘Life of Sir Walter Scott’ (7 vols., 1839–41), his most celebrated work. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).