GALT, John, Scottish novelist: b. Irvine, Ayrshire, 2 May 1779; d. Greenock, Scotland, 11 April 1839. In 1804 he went to London, and entered into a mercantile partnership, but the venture soon ended in bankruptcy. He then entered himself at Lincoln's Inn, but made small progress in law, and quitted England in 1809. He made a tour of the south of Europe and the Levant, and on his return in 1812 published 'Voyages and Travels in the Years 1809, 1810 and 1811,' and in 1813
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