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Scottish essayists

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David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
A. J. Cronin
Scottish novelist (1896–1981)
Adam Ferguson
Scottish philosopher and historian; (1723-1816)
William Auld
Scottish poet, author, translator (1924–2006)
George Buchanan
Scottish historian and humanist scholar (1506-1582)
James Hogg
British poet and novelist (1770–1835)
Hugh MacDiarmid
Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892–1978)
James Kelman
Scottish writer
James Mackintosh
British politician (1765-1832)
James Beattie
Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher (1735-1803)
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Scottish politician, judge, literary critic (1773-1850)
John Anderson
Scottish-born Australian philosopher (1893–1962)
George Mackay Brown
poet (1921–1996)
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
British politician (1852–1936)
John Stuart Blackie
Scottish scholar and man of letters (1809–1895)
Alexander Gerard
Scottish minister, academic and philosophical writer
John Brown
physician and essayist; (1810-1882)
Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet
British horticulturist and genealogist (1845-1937)
William Wallace
Scottish philosopher (1844–1897)
Willa Muir
Scottish novelist, essayist and translator
William Paton Ker
Scottish literary scholar and essayist (1855-1923)
David Daiches
British writer and historian (1912–2005)
George Mackenzie
Scottish lawyer, Lord Advocate, essayist and legal writer (1636 – 1691)
Karl Miller
British journalist (1931–2014)
Neil M. Gunn
Scottish novelist, critic, and dramatist (1891–1973)
Angus Calder
British writer and academic
William Ogilvie
Scottish classicist, numismatist and author on land reform