Surname: Forrest Forename(s): James d. 1818. Nationality: Scottish.
Working-class poet, writing in Scots. Born c. 1775. Worked as a weaver and lived in
Carlops in the Pentland Hills. Biographical information: introduction to Forrest’s
poem “On a Redbreast Coming into My Cottage, December, 1810,” Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, 22 December 1832, p. 375. (AC)