John Gibson Lockhart

John Gibson Lockhart
Portrait by Francis Grant, c.1850.
Born12 June 1794
Died25 November 1854
Occupation(s)Writer, Editor

John Gibson Lockhart (12 June 1794 – 25 November 1854) was a Scottish writer and editor. He is best known as the author of the seminal, and much-admired, seven-volume biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. He produced four novels in the early 1820s including Adam Blair and Reginald Dalton.