CROCKETT, SAMUEL RUTHERFORD Scottish novelist, was born at Duchrae, Galloway, on Sept. 24, 186o, the son of a Galloway farmer. He was brought up on a Galloway farm, and graduated from Edinburgh university in 1879. After some years of travel he became in 1886 minister of Penicuik, but eventually abandoned the Free Church ministry for novel-writing. The success of J. M. (later Sir James) Barrie had created a demand for stories in the Scottish dialect when Crockett published his successful story of The Stickit Minister in 1893. The Raiders, The Lilac Sun-bonnet and Mad Sir Uchtred, all published in 1894, were followed by many others.