a scottish poet
71Kelso, Scottish Borders — Kelso (known locally as Kelsae ) is a market town in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, located where the rivers Tweed and Teviot have their confluence. The town has a population of just over 6,000; it is regarded as one of the most charming… …
72William Thom (poet) — William Thom (1799 1848) was a minor Scottish vernacular poet, author of The Mitherless Bairn and other works. He was a native of Aberdeen, where he worked as a hand loom weaver, enduring considerable hardship and poverty.He was born in Sinclair… …
73Douglas Clark (poet) — For the sculptor, see Douglas Clark (sculptor). Douglas Clark (1942 20 July 2010) was an English poet. Clark was born in Darlington, County Durham, England, to Scottish parents in 1942. He was educated at Glasgow University, where he studied… …
74William Gay (poet) — William Gay (2 May 1865 – 22 December 1897) was a Scottish born Australian poet.Early lifeGay was born at Bridge of Weir, in Renfrewshire, Scotland. His father, an upright religious man, was an engraver of patterns for wallpaper and calico, his… …
75Thomas Hudson (poet) — Thomas Hudson, (died in or before 1605), was an English musician and poet at the court of James VI of Scotland.Both he and his brother Robert Hudson were part of group of poets grouped around the King, known as the Castalian Band.In 1584 he… …
76John Barr (poet) — John Barr of Craigilee (1809 1889) was a Scottish New Zealand poet. BiographyBorn in Paisley, Scotland in 1809, Barr moved to Otago in 1852, and farmed a property at Halfway Bush. [ Writers in Residence , by Jenny Robin Jones, Auckland University …
77Sidney Godolphin (poet) — Sidney Godolphin, (1610 (baptised) ndash; 1643), was an English poet and courtier. Godlophin was baptized on 15 January 1610 at Breage, Cornwall, the second of the four children of Sir William Godolphin (d. 1613) of Godolphin, Cornwall, and his… …
78Ramsay, Allan — ▪ Scottish painter born , Oct. 2, 1713, Edinburgh, Scot. died Aug. 10, 1784, Dover, Kent, Eng. Scottish born painter, one of the foremost 18th century British portraitists. The son of the poet and literary antiquary Allan Ramsay, he… …
79Douglas, Gawin, Bishop of Dunkeld — ▪ Scottish bishop and poet Gawin also spelled Gavin born 1475? died September 1522, London Scottish poet and first British translator of the Aeneid. As a bishop and a member of a powerful family, he also played an important part in a… …
80Macpherson, James — ▪ Scottish poet born October 27, 1736, Ruthven, Inverness, Scotland died February 17, 1796, Belville, Inverness Scottish poet whose initiation of the Ossianic controversy has obscured his genuine contributions to Gaelic studies.… …
