“It is an old belief that on some solemn shore beyond the sphere of grief dear friends shall meet once more.”
About John Gibson Lockhart
12 June 1794–25 November 1854
John Gibson Lockhart was born on 12 June 1794 at the manse of Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, into a world in which Scottish religious discipline, intellectual ambition, and political controversy were closely entwined. His father, the Reverend Dr John Lockhart, was minister of Cambusnethan parish, and his mother, Elizabeth…