In 1833 Stoddart was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates, but never practised the law. An early passion for angling became the main business of his life. He investigated the haunts and habits of fish, and was an adept of fly-making.
Stoddart campaigned against the pollution of rivers.[1] In the decade leading up to the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act 1876 he was involved with the Tweed Commissioners, and was involved in the trials and surveys of the fish population of the River Tweed using smolt.[2]
His niece was the New Zealand artist, Margaret Stoddart, daughter of his brother Mark Pringle Stoddart.[3]
Bibliographyedit
With expertise in fly fishing, Stoddart published books, poems and articles on angling.
The Death-wake, or, Lunacy: a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras (1831), verse. Reprinted in 1895 by John Lane with an introduction by Andrew Lang.
The Art of Angling as Practised in Scotland (1835)
Angling Reminiscences (1837)
Songs and Poems (1839)
The Angler's Companion to the Rivers and Lochs of Scotland (1847, 1853)
An Angler's Rambles and Angling Songs (1866)
Familyedit
In 1836 Stoddart married Bessie Macgregor, daughter of a farmer at Contin in Ross-shire, whom he met while on a fishing tour, and they settled at Kelso. They had two sons and a daughter Anna Stoddart, who became the biographer of her father and also of John Stuart Blackie.[1]
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