Sir Walter Scott, second baronet

(1801-1847)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Scott Sir Walter (1801-1847) 2nd Baronet Lieutenant-Colonel LBT ID: WaScott1847	B/BAP: 1801-10-28 DIED: 1847-02-08
SOURCES: DNB ["Walter Scott"]; James C. Corson, Notes to Scott's Letters, ed. Grierson; thePeerage.com
The elder son and heir of Sir Walter Scott; he was cornet in the 18th Hussars (1816), captain (1825), lieut.-col. (1839). In the words of Maria Edgeworth, he was “excessively shy, very handsome, not at all literary.”