Surname: Macindoe Forename(s): George b. 1771. d. 19 April 1848. Nationality: Scottish.
Working-class poet, writing in Scots. Born in Partick. Worked as a silk weaver and
then kept a hotel in Glasgow’s Trongate. After he became bankrupt he went back to
silk weaving. He published Poems and Songs, chiefly in the Scottish dialect (1805) and The Wandering Muse (1813). Biographical information: Charles Rogers (ed.), The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Adam & Charles Black, 1856, vol. 2, pp. 106-7. (AC)