John Galt

(1779-1839)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Galt, John, 1779-1839 NRA: Galt John (1779-1839) novelist DNB: Galt, John (1779-1839), novelist LBT ID: JoGalt1839 VIAF ID: 61562976 LOC ID: n78092852	B/BAP: 1779-05-02 DIED: 1839-04-11
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Scottish novelist who met Byron during the first journey to Greece and was afterwards his biographer; author of Annals of the Parish (1821).
WRITINGS IN THE ARCHIVE: “On the Personalities of the Whigs” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 10 (September 1821) 217-21 “Lord Byron’s Conversations” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 530-40 The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) “Galt’s Life of Lord Byron” in New Monthly Magazine 27 (October 1830) 386-87 “Pot versus Kettle” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (December 1830) 543-42