Old Photograph Samuel Rutherford Crockett Monument Scotland

Old photograph of the Samuel Rutherford Crockett monument at Laurieston by Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. S. R. Crockett, born 24th September 1859, died 16th April 1914, was a Scottish novelist. He was born at Duchrae, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, the illegitimate grandson of a farmer. He was raised on his grandfather's Galloway farm, and graduated from Edinburgh University during 1879. His first successful story of The Stickit Minister was published during 1893.



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