The Standard Bearer

Samuel Rutherford Crockett, commonly known as S. R. Crockett (1859–1914), was a Scottish novelist who gained considerable fame in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for his works of historical fiction. Born in Little Duchrae, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, Crockett was ordained as a Free Church minister, but his literary career received great impetus with his abandonment of the pulpit in favor...