Surname: Strahan Forename(s): John b. 1798. d. 30 May 1853. Nationality: Scottish.
Poet and messenger-at-arms. Father of Alexander Stuart Strahan. Born in Forres, Moray.
Married Jane (or Janet) Haldane in 1825. Author of Walter and Emma, or a Tale of Bothwell Bridge; with Other Poems (1829). Biographical information: Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry. (CC)