Scythian sharp biography of william
Scythian sharp biography of william
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Dictionary of National Biography, supplement/Sharp, William
&#;SHARP, WILLIAM, writing also under the pseudonym of Fiona Macleod (–), romanticist, born at Paisley, on 12 Sept.
, was eldest son of David Galbraith Sharp, partner in a mercantile house, by his wife Katherine, eldest daughter of William Brooks, Swedish vice-consul at Glasgow. The Sharp family came originally from near Dunblane, his mother was partly of Celtic descent, but he owed his peculiar Celtic predilections either to the stories and songs of his Highland nurse or to visits three or four months each year to the shores of the western highlands.
Scythian sharp biography of william shakespeare
After receiving his early education at home he went to Blair Lodge school, from which with some companions he ran away thrice, the last time in a vain attempt to get to sea as stowaways at Grangemouth. In his twelfth year the family removed to Glasgow, and he went as day scholar to the Glasgow Academy.
At the University of Glasgow, which he entered in , he showed ability