Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe

Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (c. 1781–1851) was a Scottish antiquary, artist and wit, of the family of Hoddom in Dumfriesshire. He was educated at Oxford and became a noted collector of ballads, folklore and curious historical anecdote.

He contributed Border ballads to Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and later edited Kirkton’s history of the Church of Scotland and other works.