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John CoplandA Painting of John Copland (1854-1929) Boyhood friend of S.R.Crockett.
Malcolm McLachlan HarperMalcolm McLachlan Harper (1839–1914) was a Scottish landscape painter, local historian, author and Captain in the Galloway Rifle Volunteers, based in…
'Lady Beatrice'Portrait of Ruth Milner by William MacGeorge in frontispiece of Dulce Cor 1886. Ruth Milner was Crockett's wife from 1887 until his death.
Professor Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) Balliol College OxfordProfessor Jowett
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807- 1892)Whittier was an American Quaker poet, influenced by Robert Burns. Crockett corresponded with him in the 1880s.
Samuel RutherfordScottish Presbyterian Minister (from Galloway) c1600-1661 from whom Crockett derived/adopted his middle name in tribute.
Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898)Otto Von Bismarck , Chancellor of German Empire 1871-1890 whom Crockett met during his travels in Switzerland c1884.
William Robertson NicollSir William Robertson Nicoll was a titan in the contemporary publishing world, and early champion to Crockett. He founded The British Weekly in 1886…
Robert Louis Stevenson(1850–1894)Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer. Correspondence with Crockett from 1880s until his death.
Stevenson archival…
T.Fisher UnwinT. Fisher Unwin (Thomas Fisher Unwin, 1848–1935)
Son of printer Jacob Unwin (founder of Unwin Brothers and the Gresham Press) Thomas founded the…