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Biographies of Scots and Scots Descendants (C)
Carlyle,
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(1795-1881) He was born in the village of
Ecclefechan in Dumfriesshire, in a house, still standing, which had been
built by his stonemason father. He rose to become the most important
British man of letters of his time. In 1834 he moved to London an wrote
the two works upon which his fame rests, The French Revolution and Life of
Frederick the Great. He declined to be buried in Westminster Abbey as was
offered, directing, as his last request, that his body be returned to
Ecclefechan. He started the London Library, perhaps the greatest private
lending library in the world. |
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