His reading included chivalric romances, poems, history and travel books. He was by then well able to walk and explore the city and the surrounding countryside. In October 1779, he began at the Royal High School in Edinburgh (in High School Yards).
In 1778, Scott returned to Edinburgh for private education to prepare him for school and joined his family in their new house, one of the first to be built in George Square. In the winter of 1776, he went back to Sandyknowe, with another attempt at a water cure at Prestonpans the following summer. In January 1775, he returned to Edinburgh, and that summer with his aunt Jenny took spa treatment at Bath in Somerset, Southern England, where they lived at 6 South Parade. Here, he was taught to read by his aunt Jenny Scott and learned from her the speech patterns and many of the tales and legends that later marked much of his work. To improve his lameness he was sent in 1773 to live in the rural Scottish Borders, at his paternal grandparents' farm at Sandyknowe, by the ruin of Smailholm Tower, the earlier family home. Scott's childhood at Sandyknowes, in the shadow of Smailholm Tower, introduced him to the tales and folklore of the Scottish Borders The Scott family's home in George Square, Edinburgh, from about 1778Ī childhood bout of polio in 1773 left Scott lame, a condition that would greatly affect his life and writing. Walter became a member of the Clarence Club, of which the Burtons were members. 1837), who was born with the surname 'Haliburton', and of the same's son the architect Decimus Burton. Walter was, through the Haliburtons, a cousin of the London property developer James Burton (d. He was the ninth child (six having died in infancy) of Walter Scott (1729–1799), a member of a cadet branch of the Clan Scott and a Writer to the Signet, and his wife Anne Rutherford, a sister of Daniel Rutherford and a descendant both of the Clan Swinton and of the Haliburton family (descent from which granted Walter's family the hereditary right of burial in Dryburgh Abbey). Walter Scott was born on 15 August 1771, in a third-floor apartment on College Wynd in the Old Town, Edinburgh, a narrow alleyway leading from the Cowgate to the gates of the University of Edinburgh (Old College). He became a baronet of Abbotsford in the County of Roxburgh, Scotland, on 22 April 1820 the title became extinct on his son's death in 1847. His knowledge of history and literary facility equipped him to establish the historical novel genre as an exemplar of European Romanticism. He was prominent in Edinburgh's Tory establishment, active in the Highland Society, long a president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820–1832), and a vice president of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1827–1829). He had a major impact on European and American literature.Īs an advocate, judge, and legal administrator by profession, he combined writing and editing with his daily work as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), along with the narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). These are players with better accomplishments or better stats.Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish historian, novelist, poet, and playwright. You just listed players that were way more accomplished in the NBA with Scoring titles, All Defensive selections, Fucking elite in their fields (REGGIE AND RODMAN FUCKING HELLO?), and RINGS. I'd like to go to Miami', everybody doggin' him” WEST And now that he finally gumption up the nerve to say ‘OK we can move on. Actually got mad at some of us when we were telling him to get the hell out of there. Pattys… they used to do it!!!!ĥ “Everybody begged to leave years ago.
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