Auteur

Walter Scott Dalgleish

1834–1897

Naissance
1834
Décès
1897
Profession
Historien ou historienne

Vie et œuvre

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Walter Scott Dalgleish (25 March 1834 – 15 February 1897) was a British historian and author. His publications include Great Speeches from Shakespeare's Plays: with Notes and a Life of Shakespeare (1891), Great Britain and Ireland, 1689–1887 (1895) and Mediaeval England, from the English Settlement to the Reformation (1896).

He contributed a section on Scotland's education to Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1901) by Francis Hindes Groome.

Early life and career

Dalgleish was born in 1834, son of John Dalgleish. He attended Royal High School and University in Edinburgh.

He worked as an editor with Edinburgh publishers Thomas Nelson and Sons.

Dalgleish became the Edinburgh correspondent for The Times in 1878.

Personal life

In 1870, Dalgleish married Charlotte Hill, daughter of painter David Octavius Hill. He later married Helen Curror, who survived him upon his death in 1897. She remarried, to Worthington Evans, the following year.

Death

Dalgleish died in 1897, aged 62. He had been living at 25 Mayfield Terrace (or Parkside Works), Edinburgh.

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Collection

Livres de Walter Scott Dalgleish

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