Surname: Bennet Forename(s): William b. 29 September 1802. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Working-class poet, mechanic’s appretintice, editor. From Glencairn, Dumfriesshire.
Born in Glencairn, Dumfries. Editor of the Glasgow Free Press, then the Glasgow Constitutional. Author of The Sabbath, and Other Poems (1822), Songs of Solitude (1831), The Chief of Glen-Orchay (1840). Biographical information: Charles Rogers, The Scottish Minstrel: The Songs of Scotland Subsequent to Burns, W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1885, p. 439; Goodridge. (AC)