{"id":308,"date":"2026-02-01T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srcrockett.scot\/thereadingroom\/?page_id=308"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:03:06","slug":"biographical-works","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/srcrockett.scot\/thereadingroom\/biographical-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Biographical Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-2-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-eed15480ecdbdb78464f57df663b4119 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u2018A novel is a life with the connections put in. 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kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-3 kt-pane308_759537-65\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">Crockett and Grey Galloway<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Memoir\/Biography by <a href=\"https:\/\/srcrockett.scot\/themuseum\/admin\/items\/show\/1331\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/srcrockett.scot\/themuseum\/admin\/items\/show\/1331\">Malcolm McLachlan Harper <\/a>(1907). This is the only contemporary biographical work, published after the Public Banquet held for Crockett at Dalbeattie in October 1906.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.srcrockett.scot\/library\/Biog\/Crockett_and_Grey_Galloway.pdf\">Read<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-4 kt-pane308_76eed1-38\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">S.R. Crockett At Home <\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Article in The Idler Magazine: &#8216;Crockett at Home&#8217; by Robert Sherard from 1895. One of many such articles from the period, this has been used ever since as source material. However, it contains many factual errors which have dogged scholarship ever since. 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