Lockhart, John Gibson (1794–1854)

Scottish author and editor. He wrote many articles and novels, and was editor of the Quarterly Review 1825–53. He published a biography of Robert Burns 1828, a History of Napoleon Bonaparte 1829, and a History of the Late War 1832, including Sketches of Buonaparte, Nelson, and Wellington for Children. His greatest work was the Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott 1837–38, the profits from which he made over to Scott's creditors.

Lockhart was born in Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire. Educated at Glasgow University and Balliol College, Oxford, he studied law and was called to the Scottish Bar 1816. He was an early contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and in 1818 he met Walter Scott, whose eldest daughter Sophia he married two years later. As a novelist he was not particularly successful, except for Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair 1822.