Painted portrait of John Gibson Lockhart

John Gibson Lockhart

Dates
12 July 1794 - 25 November 1854
Presentation
He is best known as the author of the definitive biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott, which has been called the second most admirable in the English language, after Boswell's Life of Johnson.
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Memoirs of The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

Authored by John Gibson Lockhart.