Scott, Sir Walter

Scott, Sir Walter 1771-1832 Jurist, poet, novelist Laudanum addiction... 

Faraday first extracted benzene (which he called bicarbonate of hydrogen ) from distillates of whale and codfish oil obtained from Sir Walter Scott, the writer see M. Miller, Michael Faraday and the Dynamo (Philadelphia, Clinton Book Co., 1968), p. 124. 

Poetry often uses words in unexpected ways. This forces the reader to consider the deeper meanings of words, while also reflecting on the idea that the poet hopes to get across. Consider both the words and the ideas in this poem by Sir Walter Scott. 

Weeks, M. E., Some scientific friends of Sir Walter Scott, J. Chem. Educ,... 

Although the statement that nitrogen was discovered tn 1772 by Daniel Rutherford appears in most histories of chemistry, this Scottish scientist has remained almost unknown to chemists. Nevertheless, the life story and personal character of Dr. Rutherford emerge from the correspondence of his distinguished nephew, Sir Walter Scott, in a most pleasing manner. Both Dr. Rutherford and his father served as physicians to the Scott family, and the great novelist s allusions to them combine admiration, sincere affection, and pardonable family pride. 

The correspondence of Sir Walter Scott, his family genealogy, and the ten-volume biography by his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart, contain frequent allusions to Scott s grandfather, Dr. John Rutherford, one of the founders of the medical school at the University of Edinburgh, and to his uncle, Dr. Daniel Rutherford, who is usually regarded as the discoverer of the element nitrogen. In the genealogy of the Scott family one may read ... 

By his first wife, Jean Swinton, Professor John Rutherford had a son, John, who died young, and a daughter Anne, who married0 Walter Scott, writer to the Signet, and became the mother of Sir Walter Scott Bart. He married, secondly, on the 9th August, 1743, Anne M Kay, by whom he had five sons and three daughters.. . . Daniel Rutherford, second son of Professor John Rufcher-... 

Sir Walter Scott gave some of the same facts in the following passage from his autobiography ... 

As might be expected, the Rutherfords, both father and son, served as physicians to the Scott family. When Sir Walter was only eighteen months old, Ins right leg became paralyzed, and, after the best physicians had failed in their attempts to restore the use of it, his grandfather, Dr. John Rutherford, had him sent to live in the country (3, 4). During a serious illness in later life, Scott submitted without a murmur to the severe discipline prescribed by his affectionate physician [Dr. Daniel] Rutherford. . . (5). 

According to Florence MacCunn, both Sir Walter Scott and his mother inherited their homely features and look of good-tempered shrewdness from old Dr. Rutherford, whose homely, heavy, sensible face hangs in the rooms of the Edinburgh College of Physicians (8). 

Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832. Scottish novelist and poet. His writings contain many interesting allusions to his uncle, Dr. Daniel Rutherford. Scott s circle of friends included Dr William Hyde Wollaston, Sir David Brewster, Dr. John Davy, Sir Humphry Davy, and Joseph Black. 

In 1786 Rutherford was appointed successor to John Hope, the professor of botany at the University of Edinburgh, and in the same year he was married to Harriet Mitchelson of Middleton (I). With pardonable family pride, Sir Walter Scott once said that Dr. Rutherford ought to have had the chemistry class, as he was one of the best chemists in Europe ... 

Rogers, C, Genealogical Memoirs of the Family of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, of... 

MacCunn, F., Sir Walter Scott s Friends, Wm. Blackwood Sons, Edin-... 

Douglas, David, Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 1, Houghton... 

On February 21, 1809, Hatchett became a member of the famous Literary Club which had been founded in 1764 by Dr. Samuel Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds (51). As treasurer of the club, Hatchett prepared a brief historical account of it, which appears in Boswell s Life of Johnson (25). The club also included, among others, Edmund Burke, Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Edward Gibbon, Adam Smith, Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Charles Blagden, Sir Humphry Davy, Dr. W. H. Wollaston, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and Dr. Thomas Young. 

Apreece, a distant relative of Sir Walter Scott. His brother says their home life was not wholly happy and that the marriage tended increasingly to separate him from his scientific friends and pursuits and connect him with persons of rank and fashion in a way he had not anticipated. We shall hear more of her in dealing with Faraday. 

Sir Walter Scott, the author of Ivanhoe, became acquainted with Raspe and did not like him. In his novel The Antiquary Scott had a blackguard, Herman Dousterswivel, for whom Rudolph Erich Raspe was the model. 

Sir Walter Scott, the author of Ivanhoe and other historical novels, was born in 1771. In his autobiography (1808) he described, with pride, that his mother s half-brother, Daniel Rutherford, was professor of botany at the University of Edinburgh and that he, in his thesis in 1772, had submitted conclusive proofs for the existence of a new gas. The celebrated novelist wrote in the retrospective portrait of his life that his uncle had been one of the best chemists in Europe. 

Two of the three I have already cited in full the remainder is Sir Walter Scott, Hermetica. The ancient Greek and Latin writings which contain religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, 2 vols. (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1924-1936). 

Hermetica The Ancient Greek and Latin Writingswhich Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus. Translated by Sir Walter Scott 2 vols. Boston Shambhala, 1985. 

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