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See also:LOCKHART, See also:JOHN See also:GIBSON (1794–1854) , Scottish writer and editor, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:July 1794 in the See also:manse of Cambusnethan in See also:Lanarkshire, where his See also:father, Dr John Lockhart, transferred in 1796 to See also:Glasgow, was See also:minister. His See also:mother, who was the daughter of the Rev. John Gibson, of See also:Edinburgh, was a woman of considerable intellectual gifts. He was'sent to the Glasgow high school, where he showed himself See also:clever rather than industrious. He See also:fell into See also:ill-See also:health, and had to be removed from school before he was twelve; but on his recovery he was sent at this See also:early See also:age to Glasgow University, and displayed so much precocious learning, especially in See also:Greek, that he was offered a See also:Snell See also:exhibition at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. He was not fourteen when he entered Balliol See also:College, where he acquired a See also:great See also:store of knowledge outside the See also:regular curriculum. He read See also:French, See also:Italian, See also:German and See also:Spanish, was interested in classical and See also:British antiquities, and became versed in heraldic and genealogical See also:lore. In 1813 he took a first class in See also:classics in the final See also:schools. For two years after leaving Oxford he lived chiefly in Glasgow before settling to the study of Scottish See also:law in Edinburgh, where he was called to the See also:bar in 1816. A tour on the See also:continent in 1817, when he visited See also:Goethe at See also:Weimar, was made possible by the kindness of the publisher See also:Blackwood, who advanced See also:money for a promised See also:translation of See also:Schlegel's Lectures on the See also:History of Literature, which was not published until 1838. Edinburgh was then the stronghold of the Whig party, whose See also:organ was the Edinburgh See also:Review, and it was not till 1817 that the Scottish Tories found a means of expression in Blackwood's See also:Magazine. After a somewhat hum-See also:drum opening, Blackwood suddenly electrified the Edinburgh See also:world by an outburst of brilliant See also:criticism. John See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson (See also:Christopher See also:North) and Lockhart had joined its See also:staff in 1817. Lockhart no doubt took his See also:share in the See also:caustic and aggressive articles which marked the early years of Blackwood; but his biographer, Mr See also:Andrew See also:Lang, brings See also:evidence to show that he was not responsible for the virulent articles on See also:Coleridge and on " The See also:Cockney School of See also:Poetry," that is on See also:Leigh See also:Hunt, See also:Keats and their See also:friends. He has been persistently accused of the later Blackwood See also:article (See also:August 1818) on Keats, but he showed at any See also:rate a real appreciation of Coleridge and See also:Wordsworth. He contributed to See also:Black-See also:wood many spirited See also:translations of Spanish See also:ballads, which in
handsome See also:young See also:man attracted the See also:notice of See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott, and the acquaintance soon ripened into an intimacy which resulted in a See also:marriage between Lockhart and Scott's eldest daughter See also:Sophia, in See also:April 1820. Five years of domestic happiness followed, with winters spent in Edinburgh and summers at a cottage at Chiefswood, near See also:Abbotsford, where Lockhart's two eldest See also:children, John See also:Hugh and See also:Charlotte; were born; a second son, Walter, was born later at See also:Brighton. In 182o John Scott, the editor of the See also:London Magazine, wrote a See also:series of articles attacking the conduct of Blackwood's Magazine, and making Lockhart chiefly responsible for its extravagances. A See also:correspondence followed, in which a See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting between Lockhart and John Scott was proposed, with See also:Jonathan See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Christie and See also:Horace See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith as seconds. A series of delays and complicated negotiations resulted early in 1821 in a See also:duel between Christie and John Scott, in which Scott was killed. This unhappy affair, which has been the subject of much misrepresentation, is fully discussed in Mr Lang's See also:book on Lockhart.
Between 1818 and 1825 Lockhart worked indefatigably. In 1819 See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk appeared, and in 1822 he edited Peter Motteux's edition of See also:Don Quixote, to which he prefixed a See also:life of Cervantes. Four novels followed: See also:Valerius in 1821, Some .eassages in the Life of See also:Adam See also:Blair, Minister of See also:Gospel at See also:Cross Meikle in 1822, Reginald See also:Dalton in 1823 and See also:Matthew Wald in 1824. But his strength did not See also:lie in novel See also:writing, although the vigorous quality of Adam Blair has been recognized by See also:modern critics. In 1825 Lockhart accepted the editorship of the Quarterly Review, which had been in the hands of Sir John See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor Coleridge since See also:Gifford's resignation in 1824. He had now established his See also:literary position, and, as the next See also:heir to his unmarried See also:half-See also:brother's See also:property in See also:Scotland, See also:Milton Lockhart, he was sufficiently See also:independent, though he had abandoned the legal profession. In London he had great social success, and was recognized as a brilliant editor. He contributed largely to the Quarterly Review himself, his See also:biographical articles being especially admirable. He showed the old railing spirit in an amusing but violent article in the Quarterly on See also:Tennyson's Poems of 1833, in which he failed to discover the See also:mark of See also:genius. He continued to write for Blackwood; he produced for See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
Constable's See also:Miscellany in 1828 what remains the most charming of the See also:biographies of See also:Burns; and he undertook the superintendence of the series called " See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
Murray's See also:Family Library," which he opened in 1829 with a History of See also:Napoleon. But his See also:chief See also:work was the Life of Sir Walter Scott (7 vols., 1837—1838; 2nd ed., 10 vols., 1839). There were not wanting those in Scotland who taxed Lockhart with ungenerous exposure of his subject, but to most healthy minds the impression conveyed by the See also:biography was, and is, quite the opposite. See also:Carlyle did See also:justice to many of its excellencies in a criticism contributed to the London and See also:Westminster Review (1837). Lockhart's See also:account of the transactions between Scott and the Ballantynes and Constable caused great outcry; and in the discussion that followed he showed unfortunate bitterness by his pamphlet, " The Ballantyne See also:Humbug handled." The Life of Scott has been called, after See also:Boswell's See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, the most admirable biography in the See also:English See also:language. The proceeds, which were considerable, Lockhart resigned for the benefit of Scott's creditors.
The See also:close of Lockhart's life was saddened by family bereavement, resulting in his own breakdown in health and See also:spirits. His eldest boy (the suffering " Hugh Littlejohn " of Scott's Tales of a Grandfather) died in 1831; Scott himself in 1832; Mrs Lockhart in 1837; and the surviving son, Walter Lockhart, in 1852. Resigning the editorship of the Quarterly Review in 1853, he spent the next See also:winter in See also:Rome, but returned to See also:England without recovering his health; and being taken to Abbotsford by his daughter Charlotte, who had become Mrs See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Robert See also:Hope-Scott, he died there on the 25th of See also:November 1854. He was buried in Dryburgh See also:Abbey, near Sir Walter Scott.
Lockhart's Life (2 vols., London and New See also:York, 1897) was written by Andrew Lang. A. W. See also:Pollard's edition of the Life of Stott (1900) is the best.
End of Article: LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON (1794–1854)
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