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Samuel Rutherford Crockett
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or SAMUEL RUTHERFORD CROCKETT (1860-), Scottish novelist, was born at Duchrae, Galloway, on the 24th of September 1860, 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, The Lilac Sun-bonnet and Mad Sir Uchtred in 1894; The Men of the Moss Hags in 1895; Cleg Kell y 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 190o; Flower o' the Corn (1902); Red Cap Tales (1904), &c.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Samuel Rutherford Crockett'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/samuel-rutherford-crockett.html. 1910.
