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The Antiquary (1816), the third of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott, centres on the character of an antiquary: an amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of items of dubious antiquity. He is the eponymous character and for all practical purposes the hero, though the characters of Lovel and Isabella Wardour provide the conventional ...
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Jonathan Oldbuck, the antiquary of the novel's title, says that Ochiltree "has been soldier, ballad-singer, travelling tinker, and is now a beggar…a sort of privileged nuisance – one of the last specimens of the old-fashioned Scottish mendicant, who kept his rounds within a particular space, and was the news-carrier, the minstrel, and sometimes the historian of the district". [2]
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The beggar is disabled and appears to be an ex-serviceman. The blue gown (or cloak) suggests that he is a bedesman or blue gown. Probably the best known "beggar" is Eddie Ochiltree, a character in Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary. [3] In an extended preface [4] Scott provides a context for the character based on a mendicant or beggar Andrew ...
Jonathan Oldbuck is the laird of Monkbarns, a country house on the north-east coast of Scotland. Returning from a trip to Edinburgh he falls in with a young Englishman calling himself Lovel, befriends him, and spends time showing him the local historical sights, though Oldbuck's antiquarian gullibility is comically exposed by an acquaintance, the beggar Edie Ochiltree.
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The Prince and the Pauper (1955), BBC television adaptation by Rhoda Power, consisting of six thirty-minute episodes, with Tegid Wyn-Jones as Edward, Dwyryd Wyn-Jones as Tom Canty, Alan Edwards as Miles Hendon and James Raglan as Lord Hertford