Sir Walter Scott
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AKA Walter Scott

Born: 15-Aug-1771

Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland

Died: 21-Sep-1832

Location of death: Abbotsford, Roxburgh, Scotland

Cause of death: Stroke

Remains: Buried, Dryburgh Abbey

Gender: Male

Race or Ethnicity: White

Sexual orientation: Straight

Occupation: Author, Poet, Historian

Nationality: Scotland

Executive summary: Ivanhoe

Father: Walter Scott (solicitor)

Mother: Anne Rutherford

Wife: Charlotte Margaret Carpenter (m. 25-Dec-1797, d. 14-May-1826, two sons, two daughters)

Daughter: Charlotte Sophia Scott (b. 1799)

Son: Walter Scott (b. 1801)

Daughter: Anne Scott (b. 1803)

Son: Charles Scott (b. 1805)

Athenaeum Club (London)

Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow (1800)

Proxy Baptism: Mormon St. George, UT (Aug-1877)

Risk Factors: Polio

Is the subject of books:

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, 183638, BY: J. G. Lockhart, DETAILS: (7 vols.)

Sir Walter Scott: The Great Unknown, 1970, BY: Edgar Johnson, DETAILS: (2 vols.)

Author of books:

The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805, poetry)

Rokeby (1813, poetry)

Waverley (1814, novel)

Guy Mannering (1815, novel)

The Lord of the Isles (1815, poetry)

The Antiquary (1816, novel)

Old Mortality (1816, novel)

Rob Roy (1818, novel)

The Heart of Midlothian (1818, novel)

The Bride of Lammermoore (1819, novel)

A Legend of Montrose (1819, novel)

Ivanhoe (1819, novel)

The Monastery (1820, novel)

The Abbot (1820, novel)

Kenilworth (1821, novel)

The Pirate (1822, novel)

The Fortunes of Nigel (1822, novel)

Quentin Durward (1823, novel)

Redgauntlet (1824, novel)

The Talisman (1825, novel)

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