Ballantyne, John, brother of preceding, a confidant of Sir Walter's in the matter of the anonymity of the Waverley Novels; an inimitable story-teller and mimic, very much to the delight of Sir Walter (1774-1821).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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