Poet, song writer, and translator. Born at the end of the eighteenth century in Stobo,
Scotland. Nephew of James Hogg (the “Ettrick Shepherd”), and his father was also a
shepherd. Educated at the University of Edinburgh. Worked for the printer Ballantyne.
Became J. G. Lockhart’s assistant at the *Quarterly Review* in 1825, and also worked
as an amanuensis for Walter Scott. Became assistant editor of the *Chambers’s Edinburgh
Journal* at its founding in 1832. Biographical information: Charles Rogers, editor,
*The Modern Scottish Minstrel*, vol. 4, Adam and Charles Black, 1857, pp. 129-30.
(AC)