Robert michael ballantyne biography

Robert Michael Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a.
BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL, fur trader and author; b.
Scottish author chiefly famous for his adventure story The Coral Island (1858).

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R. M. Ballantyne

Scottish writer for young people, 1825–1894

R. M. Ballantyne
R. M. Ballantyne, c. 1890
Born	Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825-04-24)24 April 1825 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	8 February 1894(1894-02-08) (aged 68) Rome, Italy
Pen name	Comus
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	British
Period	19th century
Genre	Juvenile fiction
Spouse	Jane Grant (m. 1866)
Children	6
Relatives	James Ballantyne (uncle)

Robert Michael Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction, who wrote more than a hundred books. He was also an accomplished artist: he exhibited some of his water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy.^[1]

Early life

Ballantyne was born in Edinburgh on 24 April 1825, the ninth of ten children and the youngest son, of Alexander Thomson Ballantyne (1776–1847) and his wife Anne (1786–1855). Alexander was a newspaper editor and printer in the family firm of "Ballantyne & Co" based at Paul's Works on the Canongate, a

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The Times/1894/Obituary/Robert Michael Ballantyne

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Mr. Robert M. Ballantyne, the prolific and excellent writer of tales for boys, whose death we announced yesterday, was connected with the well-known family of the Ballantynes, Sir Walter Scott's printers. He was born in Edinburgh in 1825. When a lad of 16 he went out to Canada, and spent six years there in service of the Hudson Bay Company. Having returned to Scotland in 1847, he published in the following year his first book, entitled "Hudson Bay, or Everyday Life in the Wilds of North America." In this he embodied the substance of his letters to his mother and of his journals written on the spot. He spent some time in the printing office of Messrs. Constable in Edinburgh, but he did not take kindly to the desk after his free and roving life in the West. At the same time his literary proclivities were asserting themselves strongly, and about the year 1856 he gave up business and adopted literature as his profession. Then began that series of adventure tales written about and for boys and girls which have brightened t

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Memorable Manitobans: Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825-1894)

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Born in Edinburgh on 24 April 1825, the son of Alexander Ballantyne, he came to Rupert’s Land in 1841 as a clerk with the Hudson’s Bay Company, where he spent six years. On his return to Scotland he published his diary and wrote several books for boys, based on his experiences in the West. He wrote Hudson’s Bay, or, Life in the wilds of North America (1848), The Young Fur Traders (1856), Ungava, a Tale of Eskimo Land (1857), The World of Ice (1857), The Coral Island (1858), The Pioneers, a Tale of the Western Wilderness (1872), The Red Man’s Revenge (1884), and The Buffalo Runners (1891). He wrote over 60 books and these are the best known tales of the West.