Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish poet and novelist, was born on August 15, 1771, in College Wynd, Edinburgh. A lifetime lover of ballads, Scott was best known for his book-length narrative poems The Lady of the Lake (Ballantyne and Co., 1810) and The Lay of the Last Minstrel (A. Constable and Co., 1805), as well as his fiction. Among his numerous novels is Ivanhoe (A. Constable and Co., 1819), set in England in the Middle Ages. 

Scott died on September 21, 1832, at Abbotsford, in the Scottish Borders.