Walter Biggar Blaikie FRSE (23 November 1847, Pilrig

Pilrig

Pilrig is a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. The name derives from a tower at the end of a field .Pilrig lies midway between Leith and Edinburgh, west of Leith Walk. It is split by Pilrig Street, which marks the division between the EH6 and EH7 postcode districts...

, Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

 - 3 May 1928) was a Scottish civil engineer, printer, historian and astronomer.

Son of William Garden Blaikie

William Garden Blaikie

Garden Blaikie was a Scottish divine, writer, biographer, and temperance reformer.His father, James Ogilvie Blaikie, had been the first provost in Aberdeen of the reformed corporation...

. Educated at Edinburgh Academy

Edinburgh Academy

The Edinburgh Academy is an independent school which was opened in 1824. The original building, in Henderson Row on the northern fringe of the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, is now part of the Senior School...

 and Edinburgh University, Blaikie worked in India from 1870-74.

He became one of the leading scholars of the Jacobite period, especially of the life of Bonnie Prince Charlie.