William Clerk

(1771-1847)

LBT ID: WiClerk1847	B/BAP: 1771 DIED: 1847-01
SOURCES: James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott; M. C. Rintoul, Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction (1993) 304
Edinburgh lawyer, the son of John Clerk of Eldin and brother of Lord Eldin (1757-1832); he was Clerk of the Jury Court (1815) and a friend of Sir Walter Scott. He is said to be the model for Darsie Latimer in Redgauntlet.
REFERENCES TO William Clerk: Walter Scott to William Clerk, 3 September 1790 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n2 Walter Scott to William Clerk, 10 September 1792 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n4 Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 2 March 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Adam Ferguson, 15 January 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Walter Scott to Adam Ferguson, 13 May 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir Walter Scott to William Clerk, 27 August 1827 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I Found 4: ¶ 50 ¶ 54 ¶ 57 ¶ 58 Chapter IV 1783-86 Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter V 1786-90 Found 13: ¶ 21 ¶ 22 ¶ 24 ¶ 25 ¶ 27 ¶ 28 ¶ 29 ¶ 31 ¶ 36 ¶ 37 ¶ 41 ¶ 43 ¶ n1 Chapter VI 1790-92 Found 4: ¶ 15 ¶ 16 ¶ 19 ¶ n2 Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 10: ¶ 3 ¶ 12 ¶ 14 ¶ 15 ¶ 16 ¶ 22 ¶ 23 ¶ 43 ¶ 63 ¶ n4 Chapter VIII 1796-97 Found 4: ¶ 12 ¶ n1 ¶ n1 ¶ 17 Chapter X 1800-02 Found 1: ¶ 23 Chapter VIII 1810 Chapter XI 1811 Found 1: ¶ 8-n1 Chapter IV 1818 Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter V 1818 Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter VII 1818-19 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter VIII 1819 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter X 1819 Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter II 1820-21 Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 6 Chapter IV 1825 Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 90 Chapter V 1826 Found 2: ¶ 28 ¶ 65 Chapter VII 1826 Found 2: ¶ 21 ¶ 30 Chapter X 1826 Found 1: ¶ 14 Chapter I 1826-27 Found 2: ¶ 8 ¶ 24 Chapter II 1827 Found 3: ¶ 21 ¶ 22 ¶ 27 Chapter VI 1830 Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter VII 1830-31 Found 1: ¶ 33 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter XII Found 1: ¶ 13 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 8: 1819-20 Found 1: ¶ 7 Chapter 16: 1832-36 Found 1: ¶ 70