Sir Walter Scott: Law and Imagination

Sir Walter Scott was not ashamed to call himself ‘an Edinburgh lawyer’. He worked in the law from 1786, when he was apprenticed to his father, a Writer to the Signet, until 1832, when he died still in office as Sheriff of Selkirk. In between, Scott practised as an advocate for fourteen years; and he held office as a Principal Clerk of the Court of Session thereafter for almost twenty-five years.