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Important
dates in the life of Sir Walter
Scott
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1771
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Scott
was born on 15th August
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1773
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Sent
to his grandfather's farm , Sandy Knowe
near Kelso , to improve his health and to
help the lameness of his right leg
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1774
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Visited
London and Bath
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1778
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Started
school at the Royal High School ,
Edinburgh
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1783
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Entered
Edinburgh University at age of
12
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1787
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Met
Robert Burns in Edinburgh
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1792
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Called
to the Bar in Edinburgh as an Advocate
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1796
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Robert
Burns died
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1797
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Married
Margaret Charlotte Charpentier , daughter
of a French refugee.
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1799
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Appointed
Sheriff-depute for Selkirkshire . Daughter
Sophia born .
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1802
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Minstrelsy
of the Scottish Border published
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1804
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Rented
the property of Ashiestiel near
Selkirk
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1805
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Lay
of the Last Minstrel
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1806
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Appointed
Clerk of the Court of Session
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1808
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Marmion
. Life of Dryden
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1810
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Lady
of the Lake
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1811
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Bought
the house later called
Abbotsford
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1814
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Waverley
published . Visited Orkney , Shetland and
Hebrides . J G Lockhart published Scott's
journal of the voyage in his Life of Sir
Walter Scott
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1815
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Visited
the field of Waterloo and met Wellington
and Castlereagh .
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1819
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His
eldest son , Walter , joined the 18th
Hussars . Scott played an important role
in the recovery of the Scottish Regalia
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1820
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King
George IV made Scott a Baronet . ' I shall
always reflect with pleasure on Sir Walter
Scott's being the first creation of my
reign .'
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1821
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Scott
attends the coronation of King George
IV
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1825
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Scott
toured Ireland and the English Lake
District
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1826
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Scott's
legal firm , Ballantynes , became bankrupt
. Scott repaid the firm's debts over the
next 14 years . Lady Scott died.
Scott visited London and Paris to research
his Life of Napoleon
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1827
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Life
of Napoleon published
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1831
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Visited
by Wordsworth at Abbotsford . Scott ' s
health was failing . He sailed from
Portsmouth in the Barham for a cruise in
the Meditarranean .
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1832
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Scott
returned to Abbotsford in July . He died
there on 21 September . Lockhart wrote '
It was so quiet a day , that the sound he
best loved , the gentle ripple of the
Tweed over its pebbles , was distinctly
audible as we knelt around his bed
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