Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott: (A Listed, erected 1837, column by David Rhind and statue by John Greenshields, carved by Handyside Ritchie) Scott (1771-1832), was an internationally acclaimed novelist and poet of works including Rob Roy and the Lady of the Lake. He was the first English-language author to have many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia and North America. Glasgow's was the first public monument to Sir Walter Scott anywhere in the world, 10 years ahead of the completion of Edinburgh's Scott Monument on Princes Street.