Surname: Beattie Forename(s): James b. 1796. d. 1838. Nationality: Scottish.
Working-class poet and journeyman mason. Lived at Leetown, near Errol, Perthshire.
Apprenticed to his father. Author of Songs and Poems by James Beattie, Journeyman Mason. Biographical information: headnote to his poem “The Peasant’s Song,” published in
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal (18 October 1834); Peter Robert Drummond, Perthshire Poets: 1800 to 1850, n.p., 1873. (AC)