Walter Scott buys the farm at Abbotsford in Scotland and commences building his future residence, Abbotsford House.
The station was near Abbotsford House, formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott.
Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
In 1847 he married Charlotte Harriet Jane Lockhart, daughter of John Gibson Lockhart and granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott, and, on her coming into possession of Abbotsford House six years later, he assumed the surname of Hope-Scott.
His personal library was fashioned after the design of Sir Walter Scott's study at Abbotsford House.
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The manuscript was kept at Abbotsford after Scott's death, but was bought by the financier J. P. Morgan around 1900, and is now in the Morgan Library in New York.
Abbotsford took its name from Abbotsford House, owned by Sir Arthur Renwick.