Scott, Michael

Scott, Michael ( 1789 – 1835 ).
He was for some years an estate manager in Jamaica, which he left in 1822 to settle in his native Glasgow. Between 1829 and 1833 he published in Blackwood's Magazine the anonymous Tom Cringle's Log, entertaining sketches of the life he had known in the Caribbean. It was very successful, and Coleridge found it ‘most excellent’, yet Scott concealed his identity all his life. In 1834 – 5 he published The Cruise of the Midge, a work with a similar background, equally well received.