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CROCKETT, SAMUEL RUTHERFORD (186o )

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 477 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CRE-DAH
CROCKETT, SAMUEL RUTHERFORD (186o ) , Scottish novelist, was born at Duchrae, Galloway, on the 24th of September 186o, the son of a Galloway farmer. He was brought up on a Galloway farm, and graduated from Edinburgh University in 1879. After some years of travel he became in 1886 minister of Penicuik, but eventually abandoned the Free
Church
 
ministry
  for novel-writing. The success of Mr J. M. Barrie had created a demand for stories in the Scottish dialect when Mr Crockett published his successful story of The Stickit Minister in 1893. It was followed by a rapidly produced
series
  of popular novels dealing often with the past history of
Scotland
 , or with his native Galloway. Such are The Raiders, 7'he
Lilac
  Sun-bonnet and Mad Sir Uchtred in 1894; The Men of the
Moss
  Hags in 1895; Cleg Kelly and The Grey Man in 1896; The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady
Lion
  (1897); The Red Axe (1898); Kit Kennedy (1899);
Joan
  of the
Sword
  Hand and Little Anna Mark in 19oo; Flower o' the Corn (1902); Red Cap Tales (1904), &e.


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