MICHAEL

See also:

• SCOTT, ALEXANDER (fl. 1550)
• SCOTT, DAVID (18o6-1849)
• MICHAEL SCOTT (1789-1835)
• SCOTT, ROBERT (1811-1887)
• SCOTT, SIR GEORGE GILBERT (1811-1878)
• SCOTT, SIR WALTER, BART
• SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL (1811-1890)
• SCOTT, WINFIELD (1786-1866)

SCOTT (1789-1835)  , British author, was born at Cowlairs, near Glasgow, on the 3oth of October 1789, the son of a Glasgow merchant . In 18o6 he went to Jamaica, first managing some estates, and afterwards joining a business firm in Kings-ton . The latter post necessitated his making frequent journeys, on the incidents of which he based his best known book, Tom Gringle's Log . In 1822 he left Jamaica and settled in Glasgow, where he engaged in business . Tom Gringle's Log began to appear serially in Blackwood's Magazine in 1829 . Scott's second story, The Cruise of the Midge, was also first published serially in Blackwood's in 1834-1835 . The first appearance in book-form of each story was in Paris in 1834 . Both stories were originally published anonymously, and their authorship was not known till after Scott's death at Glasgow, on the 7th of November 1835 .