ROBERT SEMPILL [the younger] (1595?—1...
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Originally appearing in Volume
V24,
Page 633
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ROBERT SEMPILL [the younger] (1595?—1665 ?)
, son of the above, was educated at the university of Glasgow, having matriculated in March 1613
.
During the Civil War he fought for the Stuarts, and seems to have suffered heavy pecuniary losses under the Commonwealth
.
He died between 166o and 1669
.
He married Mary, daughter of Sir 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)
of Auldbar
.
His reputation is based on the ballad, " The Life and Death of Habbie Simpson, Piper of Kilbarchan," written c
.
1640
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It is an interesting picture of the times; and it gave fresh vogue to the popular six-lined stanza which was much used later by Ramsay, Fergusson and Burns (see particularly, Burns's " Poor Mailie's Elegy ")
.
Two broadside copies were printed before 1700, and it appeared in 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)
's Collection of Poems (1706—1710)
.
Sempill is supposed to be the author also of an epitaph on " Sawney Briggs, nephew to Habbie Simpson," written in the same stanza
.
End of Article: ROBERT SEMPILL [the younger] (1595?—1665 ?)
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