Sir George Brisbane Scott Douglas (1856–1935) was a Scottish poet and writer, as well as a Baronet.
Douglas was born on 22 December 1856 in
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, of which his mother, Doña Sanchez de Pina, was a native. He combined the running of a large country estate with his literary and academic endeavours. He never married and, on his death in 1935, he was succeeded by his nephew,
James Louis Fitzroy Scott Douglas, who never resided at the family home of five generations, Springwood Park, near
Kelso, Scottish Borders
Kelso ( sco, Kelsae gd, Cealsaidh) is a market town in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Roxburghshire, it lies where the rivers Tweed and Teviot have their confluence. The town has a pop ...
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Educated at Harrow and Trinity College in Cambridge, his first book was published in 1880. He authored some of his books under the name of Sir George Douglas. The family seat was Springwood House,
Kelso in the Scottish Borders. He died on 22 June 1935, aged 78.
Works
*''Poems'' (1880)
*''The Fireside Tragedy'' (1896)
''New Border Tales'' (1892)''Poems of a Country Gentleman'' (1897)
*''Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales''
reprinted 1901 by W. Scott Publication Company)
''Scottish Poetry: Drummond of Hawthornden to Fergusson'' (1911)
In 1899, he published both an authoritative biography of James Hogg
James Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading. He was a friend of many ...
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''History of the Border Counties: Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles''
the latter was published by William Blackwood & Sons.
References
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Footnotes
19th-century Scottish historians
Scottish poets
1856 births
1935 deaths
People educated at Harrow School
Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
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