These narratives of coarse action and crude language appeared first in local newspapers, as a rule, and later found their way between book covers, though rarely into the planters' libraries beside the morocco-bound volumes of Horace, Mr. Addison, Mr. Pope, and Sir Walter Scott.

* Walter Scott Houston ( 1912 – 1993 ) who wrote the " Deep-Sky Wonders " column in Sky & Telescope magazine for almost 50 years.

It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Walter Scott.

Sir Walter Scott rescued the " jougs " from Threave Castle in Dumfries and Galloway and attached them to the castellated gateway he built at Abbotsford.

In keeping with its many Walter Scott references, Rose Street in Edinburgh has a bar called the " Kenilworth ", along with one named the " Abbotsford ".

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* 1771 – Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet ( d. 1832 )

Visitors were first attracted to Aberfoyle and the surrounding area after the publication of The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott in 1810.

As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

The last of these also contained some oral material and by the end of the 18th century this was becoming increasingly common, with collections including John Ritson's, The Bishopric Garland ( 1784 ), which paralleled the work of figures like Robert Burns and Walter Scott in Scotland.

Respected literary figures like Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott in Scotland both collected and wrote their own ballads, using the form to create an artistic product.

Added to the work of Sir Walter Scott, this was a major factor in promoting the adoption of Highland culture by Lowland Scotlanders.

It shows the influence of Walter Scott, and Brontë's modifications to her earlier gothic style have led Christine Alexander to comment that, in the work, " it is clear that Brontë was becoming tired of the gothic mode per se ".

Medieval sources referred to armour of this type simply as “ mail ”, however “ chain-mail ” has become a commonly-used, if incorrect neologism first attested in Sir Walter Scott ’ s 1822 novel The Fortunes of Nigel.

He had already shown a strong inclination for natural science, and this had been fostered by his intimacy with a " self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician ," as Sir Walter Scott called him, of great local fame — James Veitch of Inchbonny — a man who was particularly skillful in making telescopes.

" In addition to the various works of Brewster already mentioned, the following may be added: Notes and Introduction to Carlyle's translation of Legendre's Elements of Geometry ( 1824 ); Treatise on Optics ( 1831 ); Letters on Natural Magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott ( 1832 ); The Martyrs of Science, or the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler ( 1841 ); More Worlds than One ( 1854 ).

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In 1827, the Mahoning Association appointed reformer Walter Scott as an Evangelist.

Walter Scott and Thomas Campbell sided with Stone, but the younger Campbell had strong reasons and would not yield.

** The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Walter Scott ( 1805 )

** Marmion ( poem ) by Walter Scott ( 1808 )

** The Lady of the Lake ( poem ) by Walter Scott ( 1810 )

** The Vision of Don Roderick by Walter Scott ( 1811 )

** Rokeby and The Bridal of Triermain by Walter Scott ( 1813 )

** The Lord of the Isles by Walter Scott ( 1813 )

The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

* August 18 – Walter Joseph Hickel, 2nd and 8th Governor of Alaska ( d. 2010 )

* August 17 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores.

* Walter S. Jeffries ( 1893 – 1954 ), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district from 1939 – 1941, and was mayor of Margate City from 1931-1935.

Bryan Walter Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne ( 27 October 1905 – 6 July 1992 ), was an heir to part of the Guinness family brewing fortune, lawyer, poet and novelist.

His major work was the Life of Sir Walter Scott ( 7 vols, 1837 — 1838 ; 2nd ed., 10 vols., 1839 ).

* Walter Giffard, 2nd Earl of Buckingham ( d. 1164 )

There are five major scholarly editions of the Complete Works of Shakespeare: The Riverside Shakespeare ( G. Blakemore Evans, 1974 ; 2nd edn., 1996 ), The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works ( Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett and William Montgomery, 1986 ; 2nd edn., 2005 ), The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition ( Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard and Katharine Eisaman Haus, 1997 ; 2nd edn., 2008 ), The Arden Shakespeare: Complete Works ( Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson and David Scott Kastan, 1998 ; 2nd edn.

* Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild of the United Kingdom ( 1868 – 1937 )

In 1920, four delegates from the USPD attended the 2nd World Congress of the Comintern, Ernst Däumig, Arthur Crispien, Walter Stoecker and Wilhelm Dittmann to discuss participating in the Comintern.

They are directly descended from Sir Walter Stewart ( died 1425 ) Keeper of Dumbarton Castle, younger son of Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, son of Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, younger son of King Robert II of Scotland.

In the 12th century it was held by Walter Giffard, the 2nd Earl of Buckingham, but reverted to the Crown on his death in 1164.

Nathan Mayer Rothschild's son Lionel Walter Rothschild ( 2nd Lord Rothschild, 1868 – 1937 ) built a private zoological museum in Tring.

* Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch, 3rd Baron of Buccleuch ( d. 1552 ), son of the 2nd Baron

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild FRS ( 8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937 ), a scion of the Rothschild family, was a British banker, politician, and zoologist.

Walter William " Wally " Herger, Jr. ( born May 20, 1945 ), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1987, representing California's 2nd congressional district, the largest congressional district by area in California.

' His mother was Dorothy Percy née Devereux, Countess of Northumberland, daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex and sister of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, one of Elizabeth I's favourites who was executed for treason in 1601.

Lucy Walter, a Welsh noblewoman, was the daughter of Richard or William Walter, of Roch Castle and of Haverfordwest and wife Elizabeth Protheroe, daughter of John Protheroe, of Hawkesbrook and wife Elinor Vaughan, maternal granddaughter of Walter Vaughan, of Grove and wife Mary or Katherine ferch Gruffud FitzUryan, in turn daughter of Griffith ap Rice FitzUryan ( d. 1592 ) and wife Eleanor Jones, daughter of Sir Thomas Jones, and paternal granddaughter of Rhys FitzUryan and wife Lady Katherine Howard ( c. 1518-12 April 1554, interred 11 May 1554 ), daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and Agnes Tilney.

* A political biography of Walter Reuther: the record of an opportunist by Beatrice Hansen New York: Pathfinder Press 1987 2nd ed.