Becoming S.R. Crockett Inaugural Online Exhibition | S.R. Crockett Online Museum
Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1859–1914) was one of the most widely read Scottish writers of the Victorian era. At the height of his fame, his novels sold in their hundreds of thousands on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet his name is largely forgotten — and the story of how he became who he was has never been fully told.
Becoming S.R. Crockett is the inaugural exhibition of the S.R. Crockett Online Museum. It traces the first thirty-three years of his life: from his birth as an illegitimate child on a Galloway farm to the last day of 1892, when he wrote the letter that would launch his literary career.
Our digital exhibition boards draw on primary sources — birth certificates, letters, diaries, and university records, many published here for the first time — to follow the people who shaped him, the places that formed him, and the choices through which he fashioned his own identity.
This is the story of how a boy born with a blank on his birth certificate became S.R. Crockett, bestselling author.