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Walter Scott Dalgleish

British historian and author From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Walter Scott Dalgleish (25 March 1834 – 15 February 1897) was a British historian and author. His publications include Great Speeches from Shakespeare's Plays: with Notes and a Life of Shakespeare (1891), Great Britain and Ireland, 1689–1887 (1895) and Mediaeval England, from the English Settlement to the Reformation (1896).

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He contributed a section on Scotland's education to Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1901) by Francis Hindes Groome.[1]

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Early life and career

Dalgleish was born in 1834, son of John Dalgleish. He attended Royal High School and University in Edinburgh.[2]

He worked as an editor with Edinburgh publishers Thomas Nelson and Sons.[2]

Dalgleish became the Edinburgh correspondent for The Times in 1878.[2]

Personal life

In 1870, Dalgleish married Charlotte Hill, daughter of painter David Octavius Hill.[3] He later married Helen Curror, who survived him upon his death in 1897. She remarried, to Worthington Evans, the following year.[4]

Death

Dalgleish died in 1897, aged 62. He had been living at 25 Mayfield Terrace (or Parkside Works), Edinburgh.[2]

Selected bibliography

As author:[5]

  • Great Speeches from Shakespeare's Plays: with Notes and a Life of Shakespeare (1891)
  • Great Britain and Ireland, 1689–1887 (1895)
  • Mediaeval England, from the English Settlement to the Reformation (1896)

As contributor:

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