Robert Waugh

(1754 c.-1832)

LBT ID: RoWaugh1832	B/BAP: 1754 DIED: 1832-12-27
SOURCES: Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Walter Scott; ancestry.com
Jamaica planter who in 1807 built an estate called Harmony Hall near Melrose Abbey, where he is buried. In Sir Walter Scott's family he was known as “Melancholy Jaques.”
REFERENCES TO Robert Waugh: Sir Walter Scott to Charles Scott, 21 November 1821 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ n2 Sir Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, 9 January 1823 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VI 1821 Found 1: ¶ n2 Chapter IX 1822-23