George Brisbane Scott Douglas
Sir George Brisbane Scott Douglas, 5th Baronet (1856–1935) was a Scottish poet and writer, as well as a Baronet. Douglas was born on 22 December 1856 in Gibraltar, of which his mother, Doña Sanchez de Pina, was a native. He combined the running of a large country estate with his literary and academic endeavours.
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George Brisbane Scott Douglas
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- 1856
- Died
- 1935
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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- historian · poet · writer
- Fields
- belletristic literature
- Education
- Trinity College · Harrow School
- Languages
- English
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Educated at Harrow and Trinity College in Cambridge, his first book was published in 1880. He authored some of his books under the name of Sir George Douglas. The family seat was Springwood House, Kelso in the Scottish Borders. He died on 22 June 1935, aged 78.
• Poems (1880) • The Fireside Tragedy (1896) • New Border Tales (1892) • Poems of a Country Gentleman (1897) • Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales (reprinted 1901 by W. Scott Publication Company) • Scottish Poetry: Drummond of Hawthornden to Fergusson (1911) In 1899, he published both an authoritative biography of James Hogg and the History of the Border Counties: Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles; the latter was published by William Blackwood & Sons.
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1935
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