William Begbie

(d. 1806)

LBT ID: WiBegbi1806	DIED: 1806-11-13
SOURCES: The Public Ledger (26 March 1839)
An Edinburgh bank porter stabbed to death in the course of his duties; the murderer was never discovered.
REFERENCES TO William Begbie: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “On the Cockney School of Poetry. No. VII” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 12 (December 1822) 775-82 Found 1: ¶ 40 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I 1826-27 Found 1: ¶ 22 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 5: 1817-18 Found 1: ¶ 40