William Lithgow (traveller and author)

William Lithgow (1582–1645), traveller, writer and alleged spy, born at Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, claimed at the end of his various peregrinations to have tramped 36,000 miles on foot.

Prior to 1610 he had visited Shetland, Switzerland, and Bohemia. In that year he set out for Palestine and Egypt. His next journey, 1614–16, was in Tunis and Fez; but his last, 1619–21, to Spain, ended unfortunately in his apprehension at Malaga and torture as a spy.

He also visited Crete.^[1]

Bibliography

• Rare Adventures and Paineful Peregrinations, an account of his travels
• The Siege of Breda,
• The Siege of Newcastle,
• Poems.
• Lithgow, William (1643), "The present surveigh of London and England's state", in Somers, J. Somers, A collection of scarce and valuable tracts... 4, pp. 534–545 

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Wikisource 
• Martin Garrett, 'William Lithgow' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.

Further reading

• Reid, Thomas (10 April 1911), "Notes on the life of William Lithgow, Travaller" (PDF), Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: 403–415 

External links

•  "Lithgow, William". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 
• Significant Scots – William Lithgow