THOMAS AIRD (1802-1876)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V01,
Page 443
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:AIRD (1802-1876)
, Scottish poet, was See also:born at Bowden, See also:Roxburghshire, on the 28th of See also:August 1802
.
He was educated at See also:Edinburgh University, where he made the acquaintance of See also:Carlyle and See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Hogg, and he decided to devote himself to See also:literary See also:work
.
He published Martzoufle, a Tragedy, with other Poems (1826), a See also:volume of essays, and a See also:long narrative poem in several cantos, The See also:Captive of See also:Fez (1830)
.
For a See also:year he edited the Edinburgh Weekly See also:Journal, and for twenty-eight years the See also:Dumfriesshire and See also:Galloway See also:Herald
.
In 1848 he published a collected edition of his poems, which met with much favour
.
Carlyle said that he found in them " a healthy breath as of See also:mountain breezes." Among See also:Aird's other See also:friends were De Quincey, See also:Lockhart, See also:Stanley (afterwards See also:dean of See also:Westminster) and See also:Motherwell
.
He died at See also:Dumfries on the 25th of See also:April 1876
.
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