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Family Background

Walter Scott was born on August 15, 1771 in College Wynd, Edinburgh. He was the ninth child of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, and Anne Rutherford, but five of his siblings had already died in infancy, and a sixth, Barbara, was to die when he was five months old.

Scott's father was heir to a junior branch of the Scotts, a bellicose and litigious clan who since the tenth century had played a prominent role in the warfare and internecine strife that wracked the Border region. On his mother's side, he descended from the Haliburtons of Newmains who brought to the Scott family the hereditary right of burial in Dryburgh Abbey.

Walter senior was the first of his family to move to Edinburgh and to follow a profession. His own father, Robert, had directed him toward the Law, calculating that a Border lawyer should make a healthy living out of his countrymen's interminable private feuds. He en

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Collection: Sir Walter Scott

Classmark: Scott collection

Biographical/administrative history:

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish poet and novelist. He gained international recognition during his lifetime for reviving the image of Scotland through his novels and poetry. From an early age he was interested in the oral tradition of the Scottish Borders. His first novel, Waverley, was published in 1814 and brought him fame (despite being published anonymously). He wrote many other novels which celebrated Scottish history and culture, all published by James Ballantyne in Kelso. In 1818 he was granted a Baronetcy by the Prince Regent.

In 1825, he became the victim of a banking crisis and lost a great deal of money which was invested in the Ballantyne printing business. After this, he wrote in order to pay off his debts. He died in 1832 at Abbotsford, the house he had had built in the Scottish Borders.

Contents: editions of Scott's works published during the author's lifetime.

Extent: approx. 150 volumes

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Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott was born on 15 August 1771, in a small third floor flat in College Wynd in Edinburgh’s Old Town. Scott was the ninth child of Anne Rutherford and Walter Scott, a solicitor and member of the private Scottish society known as the Writers of the Signet, so called for their entitlement to use the Scottish King’s seal – known as the signet – when drawing up legal documents.

Whilst the Scott’s home near the University was a popular area for lecturers and professionals like Scott’s father to live, in reality the small, overcrowded alleyway saw little natural light and clean air and suffered from a lack of proper sanitation. Unsurprisingly perhaps then, that six of Anne and Walter’s children died in infancy and the young Walter (or ‘Wattie’ as he was affectionately known) contracted polio as a toddler. Despite early treatment his right leg remained lame for the rest of his life.

In 1773, Walter was sent to live with his grandparents on their farm at Sandyknowe, in the border area of Roxburghshire, 30 miles from Edinburgh. It was hoped that some time sp