Sir Walter Scott is a very fascinating figure; he effectively invented the historical novel. He had polio at a young age, and at school met Robert Burns once, and what a meeting of minds that would have been. He became a lawyer and had a rich understanding of human rights; this may have played a part in his writings. He owned a small castle and once had a very small detachment of soldiers. He collected antiquarian lore and old Scottish History relics like the real pistol of Rob Roy, and I believe he owned a William Wallace relic also. Sir Walter Scott also was a very early sort of journalist because he was the first non-soldier on the scene of Waterloo and wrote some vivid poetry of the battle scene. A very spectacular monument to his memory is in Edinburgh and it is astonishing.
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