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William Nicol Burns (1791–1872) was the sixth child, third born and second surviving son born to the poet Robert Burns when he was 32 and his wife Jean Armour was 26.
1 de feb. de 2007 · This article re-examines the language of a selection of Burns's writings—letters and poems—from a philological and sociolinguistic perspective. Literary, philosophical, biographical, historical and linguistic issues and materials are brought into articulation.
- Jeremy J. Smith
- 2007
Hace 5 días · death friendship. Edinburgh. Epitaph For William Nicol is an epitaph written by Robert Burns in 1788 and read here by John Gordon Sinclair.
Burns, Colonel William Nicol (1791 — 1872) Second surviving son of the poet, named after William Nicol, the schoolmaster of the Edinburgh High School. He was educated at Dumfries Grammar School, and in London. He married Catherine, daughter of R Crone, Esq of Dublin. They had no family.
William Nicol Burns was the sixth child of Robert Burns and Jean Armour Burns and one of three sons to survive into adulthood. He made a distinguished career in the East India Company and retired to Cheltenham. In 1851 he purchased the family's last home in Mill Street Dumfries in order to preserve the house in which his father had died.
4 de jun. de 2006 · In this new farm William Burns seemed to strike root, and thrive. ... but learned William Nicol, and the young and amiable Robert Ainslie shared: ...
In August 1787, Robert Burns and William Nicol set off from Edinburgh to embark on a six hundred mile tour of the Highlands. Their route followed an established that path that Boswell, Johnson and Thomas Pennant had travelled before them, only Burns and Nicol made the journey in reverse.
