Constable, Archibald David

(1843–1915)

printer and publisher

Biographical information

obit. in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 36 (1917) 29; grandson of Archibald Constable (1774–1827), Walter Scott’s publisher (see ODNB)

Gender

M

Notes

“Archibald Constable” at NQ 10.5.324–325; “Fairport” is the fictional setting of Walter Scott, _The Antiquary _(1816), and “Aldobrand Oldbuck” is an ancestor of that novel’s protagonist, Jonathan Oldbuck