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)