Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, the author of the ‘Waverly’ novels, Rob Roy, Guy Mannering, The Lady of the Lake, the Antiquary and many many others, is probably Scotland’s most famous novelist.
In 1818, Scott helped instigate the discovery of the Scottish Royal Regalia (the crown and sceptre from the reign of James V), which had been hidden in a room of Edinburgh Castle since the Union of the Crowns.
Walter Scott joined Lodge St. David’s No.36 Edinburgh in 1801. The Gothic Scott monument in Princes Street Edinburgh was inaugurated in 1846.