Scott Michael

Scott, MICHAEL (1789-1835), novelist, was born in Glasgow, and at the age of seventeen went to Jamaica, where be stayed sixteen years. On his return he engaged in commercial pursuits, but found leisure to write and publish his Tom Cringle's Log, which appeared anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine, and came out in a volume in 1834, and The Cruise of the Midge, which was published in volume form in 1836. They were both very popular, the first being perhaps the most striking sea-story ever written.