Robert Burns

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Engraving of Robert Burns, related to the painting by Alexander Nasmyth. This image extends to three-quarter length, showing Burns seated outdoors with a book in one hand and pencil in the other.

Milestones

25 January 1759

RB , Scottish farmer and poet, was born at Alloway in Ayrshire, in a two-room cottage built of clay. He was the eldest of seven children.
Burns, Robert. “Introduction and Chronology”. Complete Works, edited by James A. Mackay, Official Bicentenary Edition, Alloway Publishing, 1986, pp. 9-34.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

21 July 1796

RB , Scottish farmer and poet, died (most probably of rheumatic heart disease)
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
at Dumfries.
Burns, Robert. “Introduction and Chronology”. Complete Works, edited by James A. Mackay, Official Bicentenary Edition, Alloway Publishing, 1986, pp. 9-34.
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Biography

Birth and Background

25 January 1759

RB , Scottish farmer and poet, was born at Alloway in Ayrshire, in a two-room cottage built of clay. He was the eldest of seven children.
Burns, Robert. “Introduction and Chronology”. Complete Works, edited by James A. Mackay, Official Bicentenary Edition, Alloway Publishing, 1986, pp. 9-34.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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