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See also:HECTOR See also:MACNEILL (1946-1818)
, Scottish poet, was See also:born near Roslin, Midlothian, on the 22nd of See also:October 1746, the son of an impoverished See also:army See also:captain
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He went to See also:Bristol as a clerk at the See also:age of fourteen, and soon afterwards was despatched to the See also:West Indies
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From 1780 to 1786 he acted as assistant secretary on See also:board the flagships of See also:Admiral Geary and See also:Sir See also:Richard Bickerton (1727-1792)
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Most of his later See also:life was spent in See also:Scotland, and it was in the See also:house of a friend at See also:Stirling that he wrote most of his songs and his Scotland's Shaith, or the See also:History of Will and See also:Jean (1795), a narrative poem intended to show the deteriorating influences of See also:whisky and pothouse politics
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A sequel, The Waes of See also:War, appeared next See also:year
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In 1800 he published The See also:Memoirs of See also: |
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