Jedediah Cleishbotham is an imaginary editor in
Walter Scott's
Tales of My Landlord. According to Scott, he is a "
Schoolmaster and
Parish-
clerk of Gandercleugh." Scott claimed that he had sold the stories to the publishers, and that they had been compiled by fellow schoolmaster Peter Pattieson from tales collected from the landlord of the Wallace Inn at Gandercleugh. For more information, see the introduction to
The Black Dwarf by Scott.