Surname: Lapraik Forename(s): John b. 1727. d. 7 May 1807. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Poet, song writer, and landowner of Dalfram in Muirkirk until the financial collapse
of the Ayr Bank. Later worked as a miller and farmer. Friend of Robert Burns. Biographical
information: ODNB; George Eyre-Todd, Scottish Poetry of the XVIIIth Century, 1869, p. 207. (AC, TNT)