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(1784-1842).—
Poet and miscellaneous writer, born
near Dalswinton, Dumfriesshire, in his youth knew Burns, who was a
friend of his father’s. He was apprenticed to a stonemason, but
gave his leisure to reading and writing imitations of old Scottish
ballads, which he contributed to Cromek’s Remains of Nithsdale
and Galloway Song, pub. in 1810, and which gained for him the
friendship of Scott and Hogg. Thereafter he went to London, and became
a parliamentary reporter, and subsequently assistant to Chantrey, the
sculptor, but continued his literary labours, writing three novels, a
life of Sir D. Wilkie, and Lives of Eminent British Painters,
Sculptors, and Architects, besides many songs, of which the best
is A wet sheet and a flowing Sea. He also brought out an
edition of Burns’s Works. He had four sons, all of whom rose to
important positions, and inherited in some degree his literary gifts.
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