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John Colin Dunlop

Literature; General literature

(circa 1785-1842) Historian, son of a Lord Provost of Glasgow, where and at Edinburgh he was educated, was called to the Bar in 1807, and became Sheriff of Renfrewshire. He wrote a History of Fiction ...

John Chalkhill

Literature; General literature

(flourished 1600) Poet, mentioned by Izaak Walton as having written a pastoral poem, Thealma and Clearchus. As nothing else is known of him it has been held by some that the name was a nom-de-plume ...

William Browne

Literature; General literature

(1590?-1645?) Poet, born at Tavistock, educated at Oxford, after which he entered the Inner Temple. His poems, which are mainly descriptive, are rich and flowing, and true to the phenomena of nature, ...

David Herd

Literature; General literature

(1732-1810) Scottish anthologist, son of a farmer in Kincardineshire, was clerk to an accountant in Edinburgh, and devoted his leisure to collecting old Scottish poems and songs, which he first ...

John Mayne

Literature; General literature

(1759-1836) Poet, was born in Dumfries. In 1780 he puborn the Siller Gun in its original form in Ruddiman's Magazine. It is a humorous poem descriptive of an ancient custom in Dumfries of shooting ...

James Grainger

Literature; General literature

(1721-1766) Poet, of a Cumberland family, studied medicine at Edinburgh, was an army surgeon, and on the peace settled in practice in London, where he became the friend of Dr. Johnson, Shenstone, and ...

Malcolm Laing

Literature; General literature

(1762-1818) Was a country gentleman in Orkney. He completed Henry's History of Great Britain, and wrote a History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms (1802). He was ...