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E.A.Hornell

Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864–1933) Scottish painter associated with the Glasgow Boys movement. Lived in Kirkcudbright, Galloway from1866, where he…

T.Fisher Unwin

T. Fisher Unwin (Thomas Fisher Unwin, 1848–1935)
Son of printer Jacob Unwin (founder of Unwin Brothers and the Gresham Press) Thomas founded the…

Robert Louis Stevenson

(1850–1894)Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer. Correspondence with Crockett from 1880s until his death.
Stevenson archival…

William Robertson Nicoll

Sir William Robertson Nicoll was a titan in the contemporary publishing world, and early champion to Crockett. He founded The British Weekly in 1886…

Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898)

Otto Von Bismarck , Chancellor of German Empire 1871-1890 whom Crockett met during his travels in Switzerland c1884.

Samuel Rutherford

Scottish Presbyterian Minister (from Galloway) c1600-1661 from whom Crockett derived/adopted his middle name in tribute.

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807- 1892)

Whittier was an American Quaker poet, influenced by Robert Burns. Crockett corresponded with him in the 1880s.

Professor Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) Balliol College Oxford

Professor Jowett

'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.

Malcolm McLachlan Harper

Malcolm McLachlan Harper (1839–1914) was a Scottish landscape painter, local historian, author and Captain in the Galloway Rifle Volunteers, based in…