Thomas Tod Stoddart
…whose house Stoddart met Thomas De Quincey, Hartley Coleridge, James Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, James Frederick Ferrier, Henry Glassford Bell, and other men of letters. In 1833 Stoddart was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates, but never practised the law. An early passion for angling…