Quote of the day
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
John Gibson Lockhart
Born: July 14, 1794
Died: November 25, 1854 (aged 60)
Bio: John Gibson Lockhart was a Scottish writer and editor.
Known for:
- The History of Napoleon Buonaparte (1832)
- Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1835)
- Ancient Spanish ballads
- Reginald Dalton (1823)