Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry

SHARPE, Charles Kirkpatrick (1781-1851: ODNB)

The poet is remembered primarily as the Tory friend of Sir Walter Scott (q.v.), as a draughtsman and collector of paintings, and for his fine scholarship as an antiquarian, bibliophile, and musicologist. The third son of Charles Sharpe of Hoddam (c. 1738-1813) and his wife, Eleanora Renton (1748-1836), he was born in Dumfries on 15 May 1751 on an estate purchased by his ancestors, the Kirkpatricks, late in the seventeenth-century. He was educated in Edinburgh at the university and at Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1802, MA 1806). He never married and lived permanently in Edinburgh. There, on 17 Mar. 1851, he died at his residence, 28 Drummond Place. He is buried at Hoddam. (ODNB 1 Oct. 2024) JC

 

 

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