Robert Shortreed

(1762-1829)

LBT ID: RoShort1829	B/BAP: 1762-11-07 DIED: 1829-07-07
SOURCES: George Tancred, The Annals of a Border Club (the Jedforest) (1899) 441-42
Sheriff-substitute of Roxburghshire; he was a ballad-collector and close friend of Sir Walter Scott.
REFERENCES TO Robert Shortreed: Sir Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 4 June 1829 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 8: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 11 ¶ n1 Chapter VIII 1796-97 Found 1: ¶ 28 Chapter IX 1798-99 Found 1: ¶ 33 Chapter X 1800-02 Found 1: ¶ 23 Chapter I 1820 Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter III 1825 Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter IX 1826 Found 1: ¶ 27 Chapter X 1826 Found 1: ¶ 66 Chapter V 1829 Found 2: ¶ 15 ¶ n1 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 17: 1837-39 Found 1: ¶ 96