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WILLIAM MOTHERWELL (1797-1835)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 906 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:MOTHERWELL (1797-1835)  , Scottish poet, See also:antiquary and journalist, was See also:born at See also:Glasgow on the 13th of See also:October 1797, the son of an ironmonger . At the See also:age of fifteen he was apprenticed in the See also:office of the See also:sheriff-clerk at See also:Paisley, and appointed sheriff-clerk depute there in 1819 . He spent his leisure in See also:collecting materials for a See also:volume of See also:local See also:ballads which he published in 1819 under the See also:title of The See also:Harp of See also:Renfrewshire . In 1827 he published a further See also:instalment in Minstrelsy See also:Ancient and See also:Modern, prefaced by an excellent See also:historical introduction . He contributed verses to See also:newspapers and magazines, Jeanie See also:Morrison, My Heid is like to rend, Willie, and Wearie's Could Well being his best-known poems . He became editor of the Paisley Advertiser in 1828, and of the Glasgow See also:Courier in 1830 . A small volume of his poems was published in 1832, and a larger volume with a memoir in 1846, reissued, with additions, in 1848 . See also:MOTHERWELL, a municipal and See also:police See also:burgh of See also:Lanarkshire, See also:Scotland . Pop . (1851), 900; (1901), 30,418 . It is situated near the right See also:bank of the See also:Clyde, 13 M . S.E. of Glasgow by the Caledonian railway .

It takes its name from an old well dedicated to the Virgin, and owes its rapid increase to the See also:

coal and See also:iron mines in the neighbourhood . It has large iron and See also:steel See also:works, See also:bridge-See also:building being a distinctive See also:industry . Boilers, See also:steam-See also:cranes and ironmongers' See also:ware are also made, and there are See also:brick, See also:tile and fireclay works . The public buildings include the See also:town-See also:hall, See also:theatre and See also:hospital; the See also:park was presented in See also:commemoration of See also:Queen See also:Victoria's See also:Jubilee .

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