Joseph Laing Waugh
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Joseph Laing Waugh (1868–1928) was a Scottish businessman and writer.
Waugh was born in Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway on 17 April 1868. He moved to Edinburgh around 1890 where he ran a successful wallpaper business.[1] He lived at 3 Comiston Drive in the south-west of the city.[2] His great love however was writing. His work is sentimental in nature and largely consists of humorous biographies of characters from Dumfries and Galloway.[3]
He died in Edinburgh on 22 November 1928. He is buried in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh.[4] The grave lies under a tree in the south-east section behind the grave of Samuel Bough. It has a portrait medallion by the sculptor William Birnie Rhind. Waugh is also memorialised at 19 East Morton Street, Thornhill, with a bust by Henry Snell Gamley completed after Gamley’s death by Rhind.[5]
Publications
- And A Little Child Shall Lead Them (1890)
- Mumper and other stories (1892)
- Thornhill and Its Worthies (1905 plus several later editions)
- Robbie Doo (1912) (Robbie Doo was a stone-mason in Thornhill)
- Robert Burns: A Poem (1912)
- Cracks Wi' Robbie Doo (1914)
- Betty Grier (1915)
- Cute McCheyne and Other Stories (1917)
- Heroes in Homespun (1921)
