Michael Scott of 'Tom Cringle's Log'

Merchant in Jamaica and Glasgow, son of Allan Scott who was a partner in Bogle and Scott. In Jamaica c. 1806-1822, where Michael Scott worked for the merchant house of Robert Bogle of Gilmorehill (q.v.). whose daughter Margaret he married in Glasgow in 1818. Tom Cringle's Log was published anonymously in Blackwoods 1829-1834 and then in book-form in 1834. He has an entry in the ODNB as 'Jamaica planter and writer' which says of Tom Cringle's Log and its successor The Cruise of the Midge [published in book-form in 1836]: 'Both works graphically depict the torment of slavery and the slave trade, but Scott chose not publicly to advocate social reform.'

The University of Glasgow Story, 'Michael Scott', http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH25511&type=P [accessed 11/03/2017]; http://www.glasgownecropolis.org/profiles/michael-scott-and-james-bogle/ [accessed 11/03/2017]: J. R. MacDonald, ‘Scott, Michael (1789–1835)’, rev. Lucy Kelly Hayden, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24903, accessed 11 March 2017].