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Born March 4, 1757 • Scotland
Died February 18, 1851 (aged 93) • Leith • Scotland
Engraved portrait of Robert Burns, shown from the waist up wearing a dark jacket and cravat, facing slightly to the left.
Robert Burns
Scottish poet
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Barrie, 1893
J.M. Barrie
Scottish author
Scottish poet Allan Ramsay
Allan Ramsay
Scottish poet
William Smellie
William Smellie
Scottish publisher and scientist
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Scottish landscape architect
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American writer and editor
MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid
Scottish poet
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Sir James Murray
Scottish lexicographer
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Andrew Lang
British scholar
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Elizabeth Mavor
British author
Allan Cunningham, detail of a portrait by Henry Room; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Allan Cunningham
Scottish poet
William Robertson Smith
William Robertson Smith
Scottish scholar
Hugh Miller, detail of an engraving by Francis Croll
Hugh Miller
British geologist
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Alexander Dyce
Scottish editor
John R. McCulloch, detail of an oil painting by Sir Daniel Macnee; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
John R. McCulloch
British economist
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George Bannatyne
Scottish compiler
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Thomas Stewart Traill
Scottish editor
MacVey Napier.
MacVey Napier
Scottish lawyer and editor
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Charles Maclaren
Scottish journalist and editor