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Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe

Born

in Hoddam, Dumfriesshire, Scotland

May 15, 1781

Died

March 17, 1851

Genre

Scottish Ballads, Antiquities, Memoir

Influences

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Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe was a Scottish antiquary and artist.

He was the second son of Charles Sharpe (originally Charles Kirkpatrick) of Hoddam, Dumfriesshire, by Eleonora, youngest daughter of John Renton of Lamerton. He went to Edinburgh for schooling in 1796, and in October of that year joined John Robison's class at Edinburgh University.

With a view to taking orders in the Scottish Episcopal Church, Sharpe matriculated in 1798 at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 17 June 1802, and M.A. 28 June 1806. Not fitting in at his college in terms of social activity, he devoted himself mainly to antiquarian research and drawing. Instead of entering the church, he took up residence in Edinburgh in 1827.

Sharpe contributed ballads to t Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe was a Scottish antiquary and artist.

He was the second son of Charles Sharpe (originally Charles Kirkpatrick) of Hoddam, Dumfriesshire, by Eleonora, youngest daughter of John Renton of Lamerton. He went to Edinburgh for schooling in 1796, and in October of that year joined John Robison's class at Edinburgh University.

With a view to taking orders in the Scottish Episcopal Church, Sharpe matriculated in 1798 at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 17 June 1802, and M.A. 28 June 1806. Not fitting in at his college in terms of social activity, he devoted himself mainly to antiquarian research and drawing. Instead of entering the church, he took up residence in Edinburgh in 1827.

Sharpe contributed ballads to the second volume of Walter Scott's Border Minstrelsy. In 1807 he also published at Oxford Metrical Legends and other Poems. In 1823 he published his Ballad Book, which in 1880 was re-edited by David Laing, with additions from Sharpe's manuscripts. He also made some contributions to Laing's edition of William Stenhouse's notes to James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (1853).

In 1817 Sharpe edited James Kirkton's Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Year 1678, with an Account of the Murder of Archbishop Sharpe, by James Russell, an Actor therein, with notes. It was followed in 1820 by an edition of Robert Law's Memorialls; or the considerable Things that fell out within the Island of Great Britain from 1638 to 1684, containing information on witchcraft and related topics. In 1827 he edited A Part of the Life of Lady Margaret Cunninghame, daughter of the Earl of Glencairn, that she had with her first Husband, the Earl of Evandale in 1828 (for the Bannatyne Club), The Letters of Archibald, Earl of Argyle; and in 1837, Surgundo, or the Valiant Christian, a Catholic song for the victory at the Battle of Glenlivet in 1594; and the same year, Minuets and Songs of Thomas, sixth Earl of Kellie.

In drawing, Sharpe's strength was satirical or grotesque caricature. His frontispieces and illustrations in the Bannatyne Club and other antiquarian publications applied antiquarian knowledge. In 1833 he published a volume of etchings, under the title Portraits of an Amateur, and his Etchings, with Photographs from Original Drawings, Poetical and Prose Fragments, appeared after his death at Edinburgh in 1869. ...more

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	A Historical Account of the Belief in Witchcraft in Scotland 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1974 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Ballad Book, reprinted with Notes and Ballads from the Unpublished Mss. of C.K. Sharpe and Sir Walter Scott by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, David Laing (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1823 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Four Books of Choice Old Scottish Ballads, 1823-1844: I. a Ballad Book; II. a North Countrie Garland; III. the Ballad-Book; And, IV. a New Book of Old by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (Editor), James Maidment (Editor), George Ritchie Kinloch (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Etchings, with Photographs from Original Drawings, Poetical and Prose Fragments, and a Prefatory Memoir 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1869	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metrical Legends, and Other Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Criminal Trials, Illustrative of the Tale Entitled 'The Heart of Mid-Lothian,': Published from the Original Record: with a Prefatory Notice, Including ... of the Life of Captain John Porteous 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Volume 2 by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wizard Peter, a Song of the Solway [By C.K. Sharpe. with the Author's Ms. Notes]. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Witchcraft in Scotland by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1972-04-01) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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