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Motherwell, William
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Scottish poet, born in Glasgow, educated in Edinburgh; entered a lawyer's office in Paisley in 1811 and became Sheriff-Clerk Depute of Renfrewshire 1818; he was editor of the Paisley Advertiser in 1828, and of the Glasgow Courier in 1830; he wrote biographical notices of local poets, and edited "Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern," in 1827; but his own fame was established by "Poems, Narrative and Lyrical," 1832, the gem of the collection being "Jeanie Morison"; he died in Glasgow (1797-1835).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Motherwell, William'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/m/motherwell-william.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Motherwell, William'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/m/motherwell-william.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
