Bell, George MacDonald, Gabriel Setoun, Robina F. Hardy and, S. R. Crockett.
His A Literary History of Scotland (1903) was regarded for many years of the early 20th century as the standard work on Scottish literature.
His father was Lord Craighall, a notable senator of the College of Justice in Scotland.
In his youth he was schooled at the Edinburgh Academy and went to Balliol College at the University of Oxford.
470–482, With the authorship confirmed by Blackwood's Contributors' Book in the Natinonal Library of Scotland (for this ref see Green, R. L. (2013) p196 ) which was to become an influential assessment of Kipling's work.