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SCOTT, MICHAEL (1789-1835)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 469 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCOTT, See also:MICHAEL (1789-1835) , See also:British author, was See also:born at Cowlairs, near See also:Glasgow, on the 3oth of See also:October 1789, the son of a Glasgow See also:merchant. In 18o6 he went to See also:Jamaica, first managing some estates, and afterwards joining a business See also:firm in See also:Kings-ton. The latter See also:post necessitated his making frequent journeys, on the incidents of which he based his best known See also:book, Tom Gringle's See also:Log. In 1822 he See also:left Jamaica and settled in Glasgow, where he engaged in business. Tom Gringle's Log began to appear serially in See also:Blackwood's See also:Magazine in 1829. Scott's second See also:story, The Cruise of the Midge, was also first published serially in Blackwood's in 1834-1835. The first See also:appearance in book-See also:form of each story was in See also:Paris in 1834. Both stories were originally published anonymously, and their authorship was not known till after Scott's See also:death at Glasgow, on the 7th of See also:November 1835.

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